Town Hall Building in Pedara
The Town Hall in Pedara is a fine example of twentieth-century architecture.
It was built in 1970 at the behest of the architect. Giuseppe Nicosia who was mayor of Pedara from 1959 to 1968.
The building has a high architectural quality due to the respect of geometric relationships established in the canons of classical architecture. The building has a rectangular plan and recalls the figure of the pentagon, considered the archetype of harmony. On the facade there are nine ceramic paintings, works by the painter Carmelo Comes, which depict moments of rural life and symbols of the area: sheep farming, fruit harvesting, chestnuts, Polyphemus, the Trinacria, the Volcano, the grapes, the wine and the cultivation of the land. The polychrome artistic stained glass window at the entrance, the work of Francesco Ranno, represents Jupiter Etna.
