Mother Church of Salaparuta
The Mother Church of Salaparuta, dedicated to Saint Catherine, was built following the terrible earthquake in the Belice Valley in 1968. The church was built to a design by Gaetano Averna and has at its entrance the statue of the White Queen of Navarre, one of the first examples of Sicilian sculpture of the fifteenth century. Inside the church there are some works recovered from the rubble of the ancient churches destroyed by the earthquake: the valuable Crucifix by Fra' Benedetto Valenza from 1755 and the painted stone depicting the Madonna del Piraino from the 16th century.
