The Church Virgin Mary of the Catalans, art jewel arab-norman with byzantines component, is one of the little great monuments that have resisted to the devastations of earthquakes and the fury of the incendiary bombs of the last world-wide conflict and testify the great arabic art, norman and byzantine in Sicily.

Of the original system of Church SS. Announced of the Catalans, all admires the absidale part, with the transept surmounted from a dome from the cylindrical drum to arched blind on small columns and tightened windows, from it lives and harmonic geometrical figures.

The church, deprives of the original patrimony of art works, like of the rest all ancient monuments of Messina, is a basilica to Latin cross with three aisles that they are found grafted on a transept preceded from arch. The facade is composed of three doors, over that one centers them finds a Catalan coat of arms to rumble shape, the two lateral doors various from that front door, are arrangement of architraves.

In the subsoil there is the crypt that winds under the transept and has been delivered up from more premises than which the main one has rectangular shape with time in masonry and peasant altar.