Church of San Michele al Fulgerino in Piedimonte Etneo
The Church of San Michele al Fulgerino in Piedimonte Etneo is an ancient Basilian monastery immersed in the Piedmont countryside.
The date of construction of the building is not known. The first documents mentioning the monastery date back to the 15th century: on 18 June 1474 the monastery was sacked and a certain friar Federico was murdered. In the second half of the 17th century the monastery passed into the hands of the Bourbons of Naples and, following the unification of Italy, with the confiscation of ecclesiastical assets it became part of state property. Today the complex is privately owned.
Today only the church remains of the original structure, there is no longer any trace of the adjoining monastery.
The church, oriented east-west, has a single apse facing east, sunken into the thickness of the wall.
The building has two entrances: the main one, along the west wall, has a pointed arch; the secondary one, along the east wall, has an ogee arch with a lunette made from a monolithic block of local calcarenite.
The interior, with a rectangular plan, has a single nave.
