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San Francesco d'Assisi Church

The eighteenth-century Church of San Francesco d’Assisi is known as the Immaculate Conception. The church houses works of sacred art and preserves six of the eleven "candelore" that parade during the feast of St. Agata.

The Church of San Francesco d’Assisi is popularly known as the Immaculate Conception, due to the eighteenth-century wooden statue kept in the right chapel of the presbytery depicting the Virgin.

Inside the St. Francesco from Assisi’s Church there are the Queen Eleanor of Anjou’s remains, who was the Frederick II of Aragon’s wife, and who died in 1343, according to the legend, she asked the construction of this church (over the Temple of Minerva’s ruins) in 1329.

The facade has semicolumns that realize characteristic games of lights and shades. A lot of Sicilian artists’ artworks are kept inside, such as the copy of Raffaello’s painting created by Giacomo Vignerio in 1541, the Bagnasco statue representing the Immaculate (XVII century), “The immaculate with S. Francesco and the Purgatory’ souls” painted by P. Liotta, “San Giuseppe in ecstasy ” pictured by G. Rapisardi (1799-1859) and the fake dome’s frescoes made by Olivio Sozzi, just to name a few.

Moreover, the Church holds six of the eleven “Candelore”, including those of florists and gardener’s groups and the delicatessen’s ones, which parade through the city streets during the feast of St. Agatha.

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Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi,

95124 Catania

Telephone:

+39 095 317687 - +39 095 312103