Church of Maria SS. of the Rosary in Fiumefreddo di Sicilia
Church of Maria SS. del Rosario in Fiumefreddo di Sicilia is a recently built sacred building. The church is better known as the Church of the Castle because in this same place stood a small seventeenth-century building of worship attached to a sixteenth-century tower erected to defend the countryside and the waters.
The current one building was built in 1969 as the bombings of the Second World War caused a large part of the pre-existing building to collapse, also enormously damaging the simulacrum of the Madonna del Rosario, of which only the Bambinello.
The building is preceded by a portico with seven plastered reinforced concrete arches. The gabled façade culminates with a large metal cross. The reinforced concrete bell tower remained incomplete.
The interior, with a single nave, houses 14 patinated polychrome terracotta panels of the Via Crucis, the work of the sculptor Salvatore Incorpora. The peculiarity of these panels is the fact that they depict the stations of the Via Dolorosa, that is, they do not follow the classical tradition, but follow the Passion of Jesus told by the Gospels.
