Church of Sant'Ugo in Novara di Sicilia
The Church of Sant'Ugo, also known as Abbey of Santa Maria, stands in the lower part of the village.
The church was an integral part of the Cistercian Monastery erected by the White Monks in 1659. In the place where the building stands, the Cistercian monks had founded the second Abbey of Novara di Sicilia, and moved here after the convent and Abbey of Santa Maria di Noara fell into ruin. The Antoniano Femminile Orphanage was then built on the ruins of the monastery in 1927.
The church has a simple style both in the façade and inside.
Inside the church today a very valuable Reliquary is kept woodendating back to 1700, among the first examples in Sicily, which exposes approximately 130 Holy Relics to veneration. Three were hidden in a niche of this reliquary
