Oratory of the Rosary of S. Cita - Palermo

Via Valverde. Built in the sixteenth century. It is accessed through a small portal surmounted by a marble shield that leads through a staircase to the majolica gallery on which two marble portals in late Renaissance style face. A large anti-oratory leads to the oratorial hall, entirely decorated by Giacomo Serpotta between 1686 and 1718. The high altar contains a painting by Carlo Maratta depicting the Madonna del Rosario (1695). The quadrangular presbytery basin was decorated by Serpotta between 1717 and 1718 with the addition of two statues representing Judith and Esther.