Church of San Giacomo in Geraci Siculo
The Church of San Giacomo di Geraci Siculo rises along the access road to the castle.
It was built around the 15th century, although in 1984 it was subjected to heavy alterations that altered its spatial configuration , with the abolition of the roof vaults and the lining of the walls with stone blocks. During these restoration works various superimpositions were found: in one pillar a fresco was found, dating back to the 14th century, depicting San Biagio blessing.
The very austere building has an external stone face.
The Church has a single nave plan with two large side chapels.
Among the works kept in the church, of considerable value are: a fresco , located at the entrance to the chapel of San Giacomo and dating back to the second half of the fifteenth century, depicting San Filippo d'Agira, known as the spirit chaser , represented in the act of blessing with the pre-Tridentine chasuble of color red and the pallium and holding the ropes to bind the demons; the wooden simulacrum of San Giacomo dating back to the mid-16th century; the large main altarpiece, depicting the Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis, James the Apostle, Clare and John the Evangelist at her feet, by Giuseppe Tomasi da Tortorici from 1657; a precious fourteenth-century wooden crucifix, a work of the so-called current of Sicilian painful gothic; and an eighteenth-century wooden statue, depicting San Giacomo, protector of Geraci, attributed to an unknown Sicilian sculptor dating back to the mid-sixteenth century.
