Church of Sant'Erasmo in Naro
The Church of Sant'Erasmo in Naro is an ancient place of worship in the village.
It was built in 1555 by adapting the rooms of a large warehouse of the heirs of Francesco Randazzo. It was subsequently subjected to important restoration work.
The simple gabled façade has a portal with a round arch surmounted by an opening with a pointed arch, and ends laterally with a recently built bell tower: the original bell tower, dating back to 1694, stood in the north-east part and was destroyed during the bombing of 12 July 1943. A new bell tower was subsequently built on the opposite side of the church.
The interior, with a single nave, is in late-Mannerist style, with pointed arches and stucco.
Among the works kept in the church, of value are: the high wooden altar with scattered mirrors, a work from 1800 by Vincenzo Vinci from Naro; the seventeenth-century wooden statue of the Madonna of Loreto, by an unknown artist; a late eighteenth-century Holy Family; a nineteenth-century papier-mâché crucifix of the Sicilian school; the wooden statue of Saint Erasmus, bishop and martyr; a valuable painting of Saint Lucy, kept in the sacristy, a work by an unknown artist found in a ruined country church.
