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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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