Churches and Monuments - West of Sicily

Churches and Monuments

An open-air gallery of works of art.

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Various kinds of monuments enrich the villages and towns of western Sicily.

Sacred art masterpieces of various historical ages hide inside religious and ecclesiastical monuments of high historical value. Monumental churches, convents, churches and votive shrines, are places where the religious sentiment blends with typical architectural styles.

Church and Convent of San Francesco Di Assisi

Trapani
This church is characterized by a marked monumentality, with its large dome that dominates all the other buildings constituting a topographical point of reference in the monumental landscape of the hi...

Church of Santa Maria di Gesù

Trapani
This church is an interesting example of Renaissance religious architecture, with its façade made of tuff ashlars, its elegant details and the ogival portal surmounted by a shell-shaped niche. The por...

Church and Convent of San Domenico

Trapani
The origins of this church date back to the thirteenth century - renovated over the centuries - and are connected both to the return from the Crusades of the Dominican fathers and to the will of James...

Church of San Pietro

Trapani
This ancient church of Trapani, the monumental basilica plan, is a real palimpsest of ages and styles: early Christian origins, major reforms in the Norman era by the will of Count Roger, further chan...

Church of San Nicola

Trapani
The building that will host the Diocesan Museum is a collection of different eras and styles: in the Byzantine era it was a temple of Greek rite, the work of Belisarius, the general of Emperor Constan...

Church of Sant'Agostino

Trapani
This iconic former building of worship, with its facade characterized by a magnificent rose window, stands in a small square embellished by the fountain of Saturn, mythical "patron" of the city.  T...

Church of Santa Maria del Soccorso

Trapani
This church has ancient origins that have their roots in the Byzantine era’s Greek rite; the rebuilding fifteenth century (1461) dates back to the annexation of the monastery of the Dominican Sisters ...

Church of the Holy Souls of Purgatory

Trapani
The church, originally built in 1688, is characterized by the elegance and the motion of the eighteenth-century facade of Borrominian inspiration, by the architect Giovanni Biagio Amico. On it, in fac...

Cathedral of San Lorenzo Martire

Trapani
Originally a Norman chapel, presumably built in 1102, the entire history of the Cathedral is intertwined with the prestigious history of this city, being attached to the Consulate of the Republic of G...

Sanctuary of Maria SS. Annunziata

Trapani
In this magnificent church, with 14th century origins, you can understand the powerful link between the city and its sea. This sanctuary - which houses the sacred and precious marble simulacrum of ...

San Francesco Church and Convent

Erice
The church and the convent of the Franciscan Friars Minor date back to 1364. The foundation bull of the convent was issued by Pope Urban V on August 22, 1362 in Avignon. Starting from the 17th century...

Convent of San Domenico

Erice
The Dominican preachers founded this convent in 1486, to which the church of San Michele was aggregated, constituting a cultural and religious centre for centuries and becoming a priory in 1670; the c...
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