The "Annunziata" church

     This Monumental church, with three aisles, is divided in 10 columns of granite, (two corinzio style and eight doricos), which people suppose derived from Diana's temple.
     The prospectus introduces a magnificent portal rapresenting the Announciation (1587).
     On the left side rises the stately bell tower (1461), crowned by guelfi and ghibbellini blackbird on the angle.
     There are over one hundred
granite steps which lead to the top of the bell tower, the strain to reach the summit is handsomely rewarded with de splendid panorama offered from the towers view. The inside offers a magnificent wooden ceiling with original shelves of the '400.
     On the first altar up on the right you can admire all the splendor an magnificence of the paiting of "Madonna delle Grazie, the most ancient and valuable painting of the city; the apinting of the "Circoncisione di N.S.G.C." attributed to Polidoro from Caravaggio, the splendind painting of "Madonna della Mercede" by Antonio Giuffrè, the painting of "Sant'Antonio da Padova"; a magnificent "baptismal source" (1585); a tabernacle from the Gagini period.
     Notable are the arc decorations made of stucco along with the two big statues of Giuditta and Ester.
     Of great prestige we find in the closests of the sacristy ( 1751) a silver monstrance.