Necropolis of Castelluzzo

This church was commissioned by the baron of Militello Antonio Piero Barresi around 1480 and dedicated to Maria SS. Annunziata. Between 1503 and 1515, it was considerably enlarged and a monastery was added to it where the Dominican friars settled. In 1613 the Dominicans moved to the new convent built for them in the centre of the city, and the Minim Friars of San Francesco di Paola settled in their place. The latter wanted to name the church after their founder and rebuild the monastery, remaining there until 1866, the year in which the complex was seized by the Italian state and passed to the Municipality of Militello, which in turn gave it to the Congregation of Charity to use as a hospital. The early 16th-century church, with a single nave, presented the outside a portico supported by columns under which the Glory of Paradise and the Pains of Purgatory were depicted in fresco; inside, however, it had three richly sculpted white stone chapels. Damaged by the earthquake of 1693, it was repaired and decorated with simple and graceful carvings on the facade and valuable late Baroque stuccoes inside, still visible. Only the stuccoes of the main altar, which frame the statue of San Francesco di Paola, are from before the earthquake. The church, which remained in operation until the early 2000s, is now in a state of abandonment and needs urgent restoration.

The convent of the Capuchin friars of Militello was commissioned in 1575 by Caterina Barresi, a few years after the death of her brother Vincenzo, first Marquis of Militello. Next to the convent there was already a small church which however was rebuilt in 1582. The building withstood the tremors of 1693, the few ruined parts were rebuilt and completed in 1709. The church with a single nave has several carved chapels and an extraordinary high altar in wood that frames the superb altarpiece with Santa Maria degli Angeli and six saints painted in 1612 by Filippo Paladini. The altarpiece also hides a rich carved reliquary from 1777 with over 500 relics of saints. In an altar of the church the body of San Feliciano Martire is displayed, brought here from Rome. In the past, the convent was the seat of the novitiate and housed various provincial chapters of the Order. In this church, near the altar of the Madonna, the Servant of God Father Biagio da Caltanissetta (1634-1684), a Capuchin preacher, famous during his lifetime for numerous miracles, is buried. Following the suppression of 1866, the building became state property but was redeemed. Until the early 1980s, it was still inhabited by friars. Due to lack of monks, the church, property of the Capuchin Province of Syracuse, has been entrusted to the monks of the Capuchin convent of Augusta (SR), who celebrate Mass there once a month. The convent, on the other hand, is entrusted on loan for use to a private charitable institution.

According to an ancient tradition, supported by documentary evidence, the convent was founded in 1235 by Friar Paolo da Venezia, a disciple of San Francesco d'Assisi, and remained in operation until it was suppressed in 1866. It was one of the first Franciscan convents in Sicily. Rebuilt several times following calamitous events and the wear and tear of time, only the church remains, as the entire convent building, now dilapidated and unsafe, was demolished in 1964. Of the ancient convent, which essential in its forms, only the compartment of the cistern, some connecting corbels of the colonnaded portico of the cloister and a compartment that is used as a sacristy (presbytery area of the pre-earthquake church of 1693) can be identified. The church, on the other hand, has a simple portal with a carved window in the façade and graceful neoclassical-style stuccoes inside. It used to be embellished with various canvases (some by Filippo Paladini) mainly depicting Franciscan saints, which have been transferred to the "San Nicolò" Museum for safety reasons and better use. On December 8 of each year the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is celebrated, of which a valuable polychrome wooden statue made in 1693 by the sculptor Camillo Confalone is preserved.

It was built in the early 17th century. It is the seat of the "Pro Loco" Tourist Association. It too has balconies decorated with rich Baroque carvings in the corbels and pilasters. It belonged to Signora Denaro, widow Basso La Bianca.

It was built in 1503 through the interest of the confraternity of the same name, in the place where, according to a local tradition, Saint Anthony of Padua stopped during his journey from Lentini to Vizzini in 1223 (second journey to Sicily). The church, remodeled several times over the centuries, had six Renaissance-style chapels with carvings, one of which is still visible. In addition to the devotion to the titular saint, devotion to the Virgin of Monserrato was cultivated in it, of which a statue made by Matteo Frazzetto in 1583 and then rebuilt in the 18th century (now in the San Nicolò Museum) was kept. The presence of a chapel called the Holy Sepulchre, accompanied by a clay sculptural group depicting the Deposition of Jesus (now disappeared), and a Maltese cross on the façade suggest a connection between the confraternity of this church and some Jerusalemite order. The dome from 1574 with a blind hexagonal lantern that overlooks the presbytery area (former chapel of the Holy Sepulcher) is completely unique: characterized by a ribbed vault on an octagonal base with angular spandrels with projecting steps, it refers to similar solutions of medieval architecture of Sicily, filtered in the light of the new language of the Renaissance imported perhaps, in this case, by Giandomenico and Antonuzzo Gagini active in Militello in those years.

The church and the first recluse were built at the beginning of the 16th century, thanks to the offers of Militello devotees who wanted to erect a church dedicated to the martyr from Catania in their city. A "contrada of Sant'Agata" is mentioned in a deed of the notary Matteo Mancarello di Militello dated 1514. This initiative, a few decades later, was taken up by the lords of the city who equipped the prison and used it as a boarding school for "poor old maids". Partially damaged by the earthquake of 1693, the monastery was repaired and enlarged in 1695 by Prince Carlo Maria Carafa Branciforte, Marquis of Militello, who installed the cloistered Benedictine nuns there. The facade of the church was instead rebuilt in the late 18th century with carving in neoclassical forms, however remaining incomplete. In 1869, expelled the nuns following the suppression of religious orders by the Italian State, the premises of the monastery were sold to private individuals who obtained homes (some structures of the ancient monastery are still visible on the back from a courtyard in via Clausura), the church instead it was redeemed and transferred ownership to the matrix. The hall interior, essential in the decorations, houses the valuable 17th-century chapel of the main altar in polychrome stone in the Mannerist style (similar to the chapel of the main altar of the church of Purgatorio and to the chapel of the Nativity of Santa Maria la Vetere), this it frames the statue with a fern of the Madonna delle Grazie. The 17th-century statues of Sant'Agata and San Benedetto are also kept inside.