MADONNA DEL
CARMINE CHURCH
It was rebuilt with the
annexed convent after 1615, when the Petrarolo-Caposacco’s
family donated a land to the Carmelitan Fathers to offer them a
more comfortable home. It incorporates the rest of an ancient
15th century church dedicated to the Virgin of Mercy.
The buildings were afterwards expanded and, in 1891, it was
built in neoclassical forms. The church front, based on a
project by architect Gaetano Jurleo and by will of the
homonymous Brotherhood. The internal decoration, embellished by
canvas and statues, presents in the third right altar an effigy
of the Madonna del Carmine; the vault of the nave is frescoed
with paintings realized in 1951. Some parts of the floor still
show the rest of the ancient ceramic coating.