Necropolis of Piano Maenza

Necropolis dating from the Bronze Age (3rd-2nd millennium BC) to the Iron Age (10th-8th century BC). The tombs have different characteristics: some have cells with an elliptical plan and a vaulted ceiling, while others have a cell with an elliptical or quadrangular plan and a flat ceiling. All with multiple depositions.

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.

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.

Originally only a rock chapel located in the upper part of the city towards the west, mentioned in a deed of 1517. In it the bishops of Syracuse on a pastoral visit to Militello wore pontifical clothes, being along the ancient route that connected Militello to Mineo , Vizzini and Caltagirone . It was replaced by a new brick church in 1568, located a short distance from the old one. This was not damaged by the earthquake of 1693 and today has a beautiful carved portal (probably made by the workers working in the city in the mid-18th century, following Francesco Battaglia), graceful eighteenth-century stuccos and the venerated simulacrums of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Help.

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.