Church of San Nicolò in Novara di Sicilia
The Church of San Nicolò in Novara di Sicilia, located along the main street of the town, is one of the most important religious buildings in the village.
It was built in 1600 and has a monumental staircase, made entirely of local sandstone, which gives the entire building a significant impetus.
The facade has a large portal flanked by two columns, and various historiations and decorations.< br>The interior, with a single nave, houses works of considerable artistic value: a wooden statue of the Immaculate Conception, dating back to the 1700s; an artistic wooden choir dating back to the 18th century; the statue of Santa Rita da Cascia, a wooden work by the Novara sculptor L. Prestipino; the statue of S. Rocco dating back to 1500; the sixteenth-century wooden statue of Christ with golden nails hanging from an artistic radial cross; the wooden statue of San Giuseppe sculpted in 1768 by the Neapolitan artist Filippo Colicci; the painting of San Nicolò in the act of blessing the people dating back to the time of construction of the Church; a pipe organ from the 1700s.
In the basement under the Oratory, there is the crypt in whose walls there are open stone vaults where the mummified bodies of the town's notables were placed.
