Mother church
After the deconsecration of the
little church of St. Nicholas of Bari (private chapel annex in the baronial
Palace of the prince don Tiberio Carafa (1599-1692) built in the face of the Keep in the XVII
century on account of the revelries of the bargello (magistrate), April 23,1645 was started
the construction of the Mother church of the Immacolata Concezione to work of
the prince don Tiberio Carafa, that donated 37 ducats and the monumental
statue of the Virgin Mary, crowned then August 12, 1928 with Decree of the
Vatican Chapter.
The church and to an only nave in Baroque style complete of elevated
bell tower on the preexistent the
"Souls in Purgatory" chapel. Statue preserve wooden of the
XVI (st Nicolas), XVII (Immacolata), XVIII and XIX century and two painting of the diamantese Antonio
and
Prassede Grimaldi painters, further to other cloth of very good making
Church of St. Blaise and of the Good Shepherd
Kind at first as chapel of dedicated family to the bishop and
martyr of Sebaste, it became with the pass of the years a pretty little church
elevated to the one title of only parish from about forty-year. To
its interior, today reorganized, it is to keep three wooden
statue of different epoches and a painting of the 1700.
To get round to the
scarce capacity of containing a number always more increasing than faithful, it
came decided the construction of a new church (with pause of the first February
3, 1984 stone) dedicated to Jesus Good Shepherd. Are keep in this two depicted
work from the Nani Razzetti artist: "The Latest Dinner" and the "Way of
the Cross".
Church of St. Joseph
They are not known the
construction year of the little church of St. Joseph but it is
known that also this sips (perhaps at the end of the 1800 or at the beginning
of the 1900) as family chapel. To its interior besides the wooden statue
of the Saint and of St. Rita from Cascia is to keep two work of the Sicilian
painter Luigi Maniscalco:"The flight into Egypt" and "The transit
blessed
Soul of
St. Joseph".
Saint church
Mary of the Bloom
Constructed in the
XVI century with the style of a little Latin basilica perhaps
in an origin temple old man
Greek fret or Roman, present already to the nobility mark entry with the
powerful portal in stint stone, resinging the coat of arms and the tombstone of
the of Reggio Calabria patrician Mons. De Moncada, to then continue inside with
the two funerary monument of the duca Catalano-Gonzaga in seas it black and
polychrome with eagle to the four sides.
Besides to the bust of the Virgin Mary of the Bloom of the 1500
(unites testimony of the destroyed Romanesque church of St.
Nicholas the Great of the Cirella Medieval) are kept in the church other wooden
statue of the XVI and XVII century and a fragment of a Corinthian capital of the
XIII century used as gate-paschal large candle.