Church of S. Giuseppe
LOCATION: Piazza di San Giuseppe
DATING: XVIII century.
DESCRIPTION The Baroque style façade is enriched by a double order of steps and two bell towers. the interior has a single nave
Oratory of the Philippine Fathers (Source Municipality of Agrigento)
The palace of S. Filippo Neri was built in 1703 on a project by the architect Simone Mancuso from Agrigento to the left of the church of S. Giuseppe; of it we can appreciate the atrium with a central well with an iron armor and the three-storey building adjacent to the aforementioned church which develops along the "main road" along via Bac Bac.
The church of S. Giuseppe in 1656 was entrusted to the Congregation of the Philippine Fathers until the end of the last century; thus the cult towards the founder of their order was introduced in our city, to whom they wanted to dedicate a chapel inside the Sanctuary where the eighteenth-century wooden statue of St. Philip was placed.
In 1860 it was intended to house high schools dedicated to Michele Foderà and a school with scientific cabinets with drawing rooms was built at the end of the nineteenth century. It also housed a natural history museum, an astronomical observatory and a library with six thousand volumes.
The current ground floor of the building was instead obtained in the second half of the nineteenth century, by lowering the central monumental entrance, through the refounding of the ancient foundations on the occasion of the leveling of the main road. The re-founding involved the cutting of an ancient hypogeum and unearthed folds and cisterns of probable Arab origin.
Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero
Photo: web
Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero, Web
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