Church of the Carmine in Piazza Armerina
The Carmine Church in Piazza Armerina is one of the city's religious buildings.
The current building dates back to 1651 and was built on the ruins of an older church, dating back to the 15th century and dedicated to Sant'Alberto. Of this original structure it is still possible to admire the elegant square bell tower in limestone divided into three orders, with windows with Catalan moldings and crowned with merlons.
The facade, in natural stone ashlars , above the portal there is a niche in which the marble statue of the Madonna attributed to Antonio Gagini was housed, now kept in the Diocesan Museum.
The inside of the church has 4 altars which have been stripped of their paintings.
Adjacent to the church there is the cloister of the former Carmelite convent dating back to the sixteenth century, now used as private homes. On three sides it has a slight escape of round arches, resting on slender monolithic sandstone columns and surmounted on one side by a series of coats of arms carved in stone.
