Mother Church in Milo
The Mother Church of Milo, dedicated to the Patron Saint Sant'Andrea Apostolo, is the main place of worship in the village.
The current building was built between the 17th and 18th centuries on the site where an ancient religious building dating back to 1340. The pre-existing construction was commissioned by the vicar of the Kingdom of Sicily Giovanni d'Aragona who had established his summer residence in this place.
The façade, built in 1903, was rebuilt during the twentieth century following of the damage caused by the bombings of the Second World War. It was built in neoclassical style, although it features some details typical of the Sicilian Baroque and Gothic style.
The façade, in white stone, is vertically punctuated by four Ionic pilasters, and is divided into two orders by a string course frame . On the first level there are three entrance portals flanked by pillars decorated in Corinthian style which give elegance and majesty to the sacred building; On the second level, between two elegant balustrades surmounted by four statues of saints, in a central position, rises the belfry with round arches, Corinthian style pilasters, triangular tympanums, pinnacles and spiers that recall the Gothic style.
The interior, with three naves, houses works of particular artistic value: a polychrome wooden crucifix, the Simulacrum of Saint Andrew, the Immaculate Conception and Saint Joseph dating back to the 17th-18th century; several canvases dating back to the twentieth century.
