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Santi Cosma e Damiano (or Santa Chiara) is a Roman Catholic church in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy. This Baroque church was built around 1500 after the plan of Giuseppe Mariani and rebuilt between 1721 and 1725.
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria or Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a Roman Catholic church with a main facade on Piazza Bellini, and a lateral Western facade facing the elaborate Fontana Pretoria, in the historic quarter of Kalsa in the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.
The church has three apses, an arrangement also seen in Sicily at Monreale Cathedral. The two lower side apses have the upper tiers of the exterior decorated by blind arcading of small crossed arches and sculpted corbels, also seen used extensively at Monreale. The corbels date from 1215 to 1223 and portray masks, heads of animals, and human ...
Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. As an architectural complex, it is characterized by the presence of different styles, due to a long history of additions, alterations and restorations, the last ...
Façade. Symbol of the Dominican Order Statue of St Dominic Chapel of Saint Joseph. San Domenico (Saint Dominic) is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church, located on Piazza San Domenico, and located in the ancient quarter of La Loggia, in central Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.
The church facade leads to an open air room where various plaques recall the veneration of the saint by various kings. The structure houses in a glass case, a gold-leaf and marble depiction of the recumbent hermit saint, attended by an cherub, with the marble sculpture (1625) by Gregorio Tedeschi , and the gold ornament provided in 1735 by King ...
The Archdiocese of Catania (Latin: Archidioecesis Catanensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Sicily, southern Italy, with its seat in Catania. It was elevated to an archdiocese in 1859, and became a metropolitan see in 2000. Its suffragans are the diocese of Acireale and the diocese of Caltagirone. [1] [2]
Messina Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Messina; Basilica Cathedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Messina, Sicily. Formerly the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Messina , it became in 1986 the archiepiscopal seat of the Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela .