Jesuit convent in Piazza Armerina
The Jesuit Convent in Piazza Armerina houses the city's municipal library.
It was built in the early 1600s at the behest of the citizens with the intention of providing the city with a school system that would ensure a valid education for young people. Due to the lack of funds, it was the wealthiest citizens who offered large sums of money for the construction and purchase of the equipment necessary to start up the school.
The building has an L-shaped plan inside which there is a valuable portico with pillars covered with terracotta bricks.
On the ground floor of the building, in the premises which housed the Oratory of the Confraternity of Nobles in the 17th century, is the municipal library. The room that houses the library has valuable frescoes and stuccoes in the Baroque style.
Inside the library are kept thousands of volumes and hundreds of incunabula and sixteenth-century books.
