St. Mary's Church

 

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The basiliana

St. Mary's Church

 

Rises in the green valley

of

Mili Saint Peter

 

The construction, intentional from conte the Ruggero, laughed them to XI the century, can be deduced from the registrations brought back on the lapide of the son of Ruggero died to Siracusa and buried in this church in 1092. The characteristics of the architecture are typical of the basiliane churches constructed in that period in this area of the messinese.

The church to a single one is navata, with transetto to raised plan and three arched delimiting the presbiterio. Three are the apses like appear to the inside, to the outside single that one center them are visible, the others two are comprised in the thickness of the wall. Three are the cupolette of the transetto, they are noticed arches in mattoni in the apse and to sides the typical decoration in lesene to arches intercrosses to you.

The church is encircled from small houses enclosed from a town-walls wall that ago to think that features of the rests of the ancient monastero of the monaci of Saint Basilio which the church was entrusted.

 

 

 

 

  

 

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