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SAINT MARIA CHURCH This church, situated just below the convent, was built in 1753 with materials coming from “Santa Maria de Platea” Church (which already existed in 1400) and finished the first years of the nineteen century. The coat of arms with the stone crown and three pieces of the marble bas-relief, situated in the middle of the façade between two angels, come from the latter. Inside the church there are preserved many Tomasi’s paintings, Gagini’s Our Lady of Assistance, a seventeenth wooden pulpit with a cutting relief and six panels representing the four Evangelists and two fathers of church supported by an old man, an imposing organ, a Crucifix of the fifteenth century and finally some frescoes made by Villa Brothers in the 1970s. Next to the church you can see the bell tower with the big bell which weighs over two tons. It was fused by two Tortoriciani bell-ringer masters. It is said that, in the past, it allowed to people who were lost in the mountains, to find their way back thanks to its tolls. You can hear its melodious sound from the first to the 28th January when there are the celebrations in S. Sebastiano’s honour, who is the patron saint of Tortorici. Saint Biagio Church is next to Saint Maria bell tower, inside it there is a characteristic arc of the Norman period of about 1270 |
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