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Messina and the Peloritani
Mountains:
lines of a past splendor
It's
commonly called " Badiazza
" laughed them to 1123, to
the age of Ruggero II, when in this area seems was operating a
resisted monastico complex from Benedictine nuns; in any case the age
more properly riconducibile to the architecture is the Svevo period,
under Federico II who rebuilds it to the beginning of XIII the century
conferring them a new order that comprises the reconstruction of the
prospect and the restoration of the apses. Subsequently the Church
comes damaged from a fire and will be Federico II of Aragon to restore
it. The Monastero will remain active until 1347 when a terrible plague
contributes to the progressive abandonment of the situated
one that will become total towards the end of 1500. The successes to
you more and more deep wounded earthquakes will inflict to the
Monument until the landslide of the cupola and to a partial
interramento of the structure. It must add, the inability and
the deep ignorance of the local politicians who, in the course of many
legislature, leave the monument without some protection, to the
carelessness of the population that plunders wildly, in intolerable way,
defacing an artistic patrimony of absolute relief.
The
restorations of the Church begin in years ' 50 but they do not come
concluded for lack of deep and today the restorations are still in
course but... will never end! Wall of a high and wide town-walls
does not allow the access to the church, ugly to see, but protegge the
monument from other pillages. The architectonic system is composed
from two bodies: the sanctuary with the apses and the body of the
navate ones. Four asymmetric ones with a space are arched center them
to cupola encircled from four symmetrical corridors. The arched ones
are leaned to the external walls and to the body of the navate ones
for means of it arches pointed. High monofore is in the external walls
while in the main facade like in the apses circular windows are
observed; the presbiterio, adorned of merlons, with the windows
harmonically distributed, turns out elegant much and the structure
gives the impression to the outside of a noble palace.
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