Church of San Basilio Magno in Graniti
The Church of San Basilio Magno in Graniti is the Mother Church of the village.
It was built in 1604 in the center of the town dividing it into the two sectors San Basilio di suso, i.e. above, and San Basilio di iuso, i.e. lower. The interior was rebuilt in the second half of the 1700s.
The asymmetrical façade is marked by five pilaster strips in lava stone which enhance its vertical dimension and separate the central one where the arched portal opens flanked by two columns with Ionic capitals which they support a broken gable, and the two lateral areas occupied on one side by the bell tower and, on the other, by a structure lower than the rest of the building. The façade is adorned with small rosettes and linear relief frame designs.
The interior, divided into three naves, features the main altar in Baroque style entirely made of polychrome marble, the tabernacle surmounted by a throne made up of small columns in Bernini style and the finely decorated wooden choir. The checkerboard floor, redone in 1921, hides the place where prelates and parishioners were buried.
