Church of Santa Rosalia in Corleone
The eighteenth-century Church of Santa Rosalia in Corleone houses works of notable artistic and historical value.
It was built as a votive offering to the Patron Saint of Palermo following the narrow escape of the plague epidemic that struck the city in 1624.
The simple neoclassical style façade is flanked by a bell tower with a wrought iron goose-breast grate.
The interior, with a single nave with a semicircular apse, has a barrel vault decorated with floral motifs and frescoes in neoclassical style.
Inside the church there are works of considerable value: the colossal golden wooden vara of the Chain Crucifix, a work by Francesco Reina from 1668, used to place the SS. Crucifix of the Chain, a simulacrum that was invoked by the Corleonesi during periods of drought; two sixteenth-century stoups in white marble with reliefs; the large canvas by Velasquez "The Vision of Saint John the Evangelist" and that by Vito D'Anna "The Adoration of the Shepherds".
