Church of Pietà in Caltabellotta
The Church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Caltabellotta is one of the oldest religious buildings in the city, dating back to the Byzantine period. It stands in a splendid panoramic position in the upper part of the village, set among the rocks of Mount Kratas.
The church is accessed via a suggestive staircase carved into the rock. It is a small church building partly carved into the rock, with the remains of a fresco representing San Cono inside. The gabled façade has a small seventeenth-century bell tower. The entrance has a door with an arched architrave in squared stone ashlars surmounted by an octagonal window.
Under the building there are rooms dug into the rock which, during the Christmas period, become a suggestive setting for the living nativity scene. In these environments, tools related to the Sicilian peasant and pastoral world are exhibited.
Not far from the church of the Pietà there is another section of the Sican necropolis.
To visit these environments inside it is necessary to contact the Peregrinus association .
