Church of Sant'Anna in Floresta
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The Church of Sant'Anna a Floresta is the Mother Church of the village. It stands on the main street and overlooks the small square of Sant'Anna where the baronial palace also overlooks.
It was built in 1775 on a pre-existing seventeenth-century church dedicated to San Giorgio and commissioned by Antonio Quintana Duegnas, Marquis of Floresta. It was then remodeled in the nineteenth century and on this occasion the official passage of dedication from San Giorgio to Sant'Anna took place.
The salient façade, enclosed within a row of houses, has a simple sandstone portal and is flanked by a cuspidate bell tower.
The interior, divided into three naves by pillars, features stucco decorations. Of particular value are the decorations of the chapel of the Sacrament, containing a Madonna del Tindari, covered by a lowered dome and covered with fine nineteenth-century stuccos.
Among the works kept inside the church of particular value are: the sculptural group with Saint Anne, the Virgin and Child, an eighteenth-century wooden crucifix, an Addolorata and a wooden sculpture of Saint Joseph with Child.
