Church of S. Ignazio - Piazza Armerina
LOCATION: Via Vittorio Emanuele DATING: XVII century. DESCRIPTION: The church is adjacent to the Jesuit college. It is located in an elevated position with respect to the roadway, so it is accessed through a staircase in worked stone. The interior has a basilica plan with three naves with a very wide central one; at the ends of the transept, which does not protrude from the rectangle of plan according to a tendency common to the Jesuit churches of the time, two sumptuous baroque altars in stucco with twisted columns and on the cross a low blind octagonal dome. On the walls and in the sacristy dozens of canvases (an "Annunciation", a "St. Ignatius", a "Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine", a "St. Dominic", etc.) well made from the 600th, 700th, 800th centuries; in the presbytery an altar frontal in carved wood, a neoclassical wooden choir, a large canvas depicting St. Ignatius
Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero
Photo: Ignazio Caloggero
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