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Chiesa confraternale di San Sebastiano
Mentioned for the first time in 1504, it was the seat of the homonymous brotherhood perhaps connected to the Order of Malta (as can be deduced from a sign on the facade). In 1572 it became a destination for devotees and pilgrims who acclaimed San Sebastiano martyr co-patron of Militello, for having freed the city from the scourge of the plague. Destroyed by the earthquake of 1693, it was rebuilt in 1702 incorporating the portal of the 16th-century church into the façade. It has three altars in all and the main altar contains the statue of San Sebastiano with wooden ferrule, framed by a magnificent carved stone chapel in Baroque style from 1708. Other furnishings, vestments and sacred furnishings, including the silver reliquary of San Sebastiano, are exhibited in the Treasury of Santa Maria della Stella.
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It is a splendid noble residence dating back to 1717. Outside it offers a magnificent balcony supported by richly carved shelves with masks. Inside it has numerous rooms, including a courtyard with a cistern and a garden. It belonged to the ancient Militellese family of the Iatrini who saw in many of its illustrious jurists and religious exponents, such as Mons. Alfio Iatrini, prior of the cathedral of Catania and Mons. Can. Iatrini Dr. Francesco, Supernumerary Secret Waiter of His Holiness and Vicar Forane of Militello. The last exponent of the family, in 1995, donated the entire building to the Sanctuary of S. Maria della Stella.
or "dei Leoni"
Rare testimony of 16th-century civil construction, the enormous building was commissioned by the Barresi family as the seat of the jury court and the capital court (the two main administrative bodies of the city). Although remodeled in later periods, and owned several times (including the Majorana-Cocuzzella barons of Nicchiara), it has the original ashlar cantonals, enriched by severe stone lions from the Middle Ages recovered from older buildings.
Chiesa confraternale degli Angeli Custodi
Known by the Militellesi simply as the Angel, it was built in 1639 on the initiative of some priests of the city, zealous in works of charity, on the site where a church dedicated to the Archangel Michael had already stood since the 13th century. The old hospital run by the Compagnia dei Bianchi was annexed to the latter (hospital perhaps was built by the Knights Templar). After the hospital was transferred to another place and the Company ceased to take care of the church, in 1657 it became the seat of the new Congregation of Maria Santissima degli Agonizzanti, still active, which had the purpose of offering comfort to the dying and a worthy burial to the needy. Restored following the 1693 earthquake, the building has valuable rococo style stuccos and a splendid Caltagirone ceramic floor from 1768 (in 2000 some majolica tiles from the floor were stolen). The church also has two canvases depicting the Archangels Michael and Raphael and a positive organ from the early 18th century, now transferred to Santa Maria della Stella for safety reasons.
Municipal Auditorium
The Dominican friars arrived in Militello in 1536, at the behest of the Barresi, and here they settled at the Annunziata church outside the city, remaining there until the early 1600s. Subsequently, Prince Francesco Branciforte, to facilitate control over the population by the Holy Inquisition, wanted to transfer the seat of the Dominicans to the city, and had them build the new church and the new convent which were inaugurated in 1613. Damaged by the earthquake of 1693, both were soon redone. The church that can be seen today, one of the largest in Militello, is characterized by a large classical façade, with a spire-shaped tympanum, and a hall-like interior, decorated with stuccos, with a deep presbytery. Inside it housed six stone chapels with carvings, among which the one of the Madonna del Rosario stood out with a canvas by Mario Minniti from 1620 (now lost). Although the convent and the church suffered the effects of the suppression of 1866, the latter continued to function until the mid-1900s, when it was now unsafe and finally stripped of all its furnishings and abandoned (some surviving works are in Santa Maria della Stella and in San Benedetto). The premises of the convent instead housed a kindergarten (Asilo Laganà Campisi), schools and private homes. Fortunately, the entire complex was recovered and enhanced in the early 2000s. The church is now used as a Municipal Auditorium, while the former convent houses a conference room, the "Angelo Majorana" Municipal Library, the Civic Museum, the Historical Archive and the Civic Art Gallery "
Porta della Terra=
Ancient gate attached to the castle buildings.
ex Tinnirello, ex Interlandi di Bellaprima
It dates back to the 17th-18th centuries. It has an elegant carved window, in Mannerist style, on whose tympanum there is a marble heraldic coat of arms. It first belonged to the Calatina family of the Interlandi princes of Bellaprima (the parish priest of San Nicola don Lorenzo Interlandi lived there), in the first half of the 18th century it passed to the illustrious Tinnirello family from Militello who lived there until 1921, hosting the ground floor homonymous pharmacy, and finally to the Oliva family.