matteo saint church to scicli

The Church of S. Matteo is found in one of the more places' involving and unusual in which precious monuments are preserved among the more' ancient of Scicli (Church Spirit Saint, Saint Lucy, St. Vito).

Reached the hill it is dominated it gets by of S. Bartholomew from which you/they can be perceived over the church, the homonym stream, the characteristics houses and the so many paved alleys of limestone.

Quìs lie the ruins of the old one "Castle of the three cantons", building that perhaps it already existed when Scicli withstood the siege of the Arabs that you/they grasped the city in the 864.

But the more architecture' rare and only some hill is the stately church of St. Matteo that he is able' to also admire from the plant Italy plaza.

The church matrix of Scicli, is once the more one' ancient of the city.

You thinks that the temple has been built recently studies from the Norman ones but on the base the church it goes up again a first years of the Christianity straight.

The façade develops him on two orders embellished from injured of it and from columns with Corinthian capitals; while instead the inside is to three aisles.

"Map" Via San Matteo

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