Real Collegio Capizzi in Bronte
The Real Collegio Capizzi is the beating heart of Bronte's history and socio-cultural identity.
It was founded by the Venerable Sac. Ignazio Capizzi in the seventies of the eighteenth century to promote the education and training of young people.
Inside there are several places of considerable interest.
The ancient fund of the library of the Real Collegio Capizzi which collects many works of the humanistic culture of the eighteenth century. The library patrimony consists of over 14 thousand volumes, with the possibility of ranging between scientific, literary, theological, philosophical, Latin and Greek classics.
The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception where there is a single altar dedicated to Mary Immaculate with a papier-mâché statue made on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the construction of the Collegio.
A gallery of ancient paintings depicting illustrious men of the clergy and nobility of Bronte located in the noble wing of the Real Collegio Capizzi.
The picture gallery. Nunzio Sciavarrello who collects a substantial nucleus of works that represent a significant artistic excursus of the masters of the twentieth century and a precious testimony of the Sicilian and national artistic panorama between the second and ninth decade of the twentieth century.
