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Filangeri of Cutò Palace, the Cathedral Church in Santa Margherita Belice and Tomasi di Lampedusa The Park Literary-Memorial Museum (g) the
















S. Margherita Belice: Palazzo Filangeri-Cutò
Filangeri Cutò The palace is the setting for a large square body and is presented as self-sufficient, with theater, chapel, local representation and a large giardino.Costruito the existing pavement of an Arab castle, was developed in the seventeenth century as the residence of the country's founder Antonio Corbera.Mantenne always a symbolic value of feudal power in the territory of S. Margaret, until sunset of the barons in the late 800. In 1921, after the piecemeal sale of certain parts, it begins the slow decline of the complex, which in 1968 was largely destroyed by terremoto.Oggi has been completely restored and is site of this building Comune.In Tomasi di Lampedusa spent between six and twenty years, their summers. Leopard now in the palace of Donnafugata, it is the setting for just under half of romanzo.A soon.

Mother Church (pictured above)

The ruins of the Cathedral, consisting of the left side of the church with three side chapels and the central chapel, still bear witness to the rich ornaments were the largest church of Santa Margherita Belìce.Il sacred temple was founded by Alexander I Filangeri noble at the end of the seventeenth century, at the Oratory of SS. Rosario, next to the palace Filangeri to which the church was connected via a wooden staircase leading to the parlor, from which he can attend functions religiose.L 'exterior, now lost, had a baroque facade divided into two orders clamped by two imaginative lodges bell with pagoda roof. The carvings tuff, ably treated, culminating in the triangular pediment topped by a statue of Santa Rosalia in which the church was dedicated, and an exquisite portal eardrum broken and the window above the two orders of more embellished facciata.L 'interior, a nave, was enriched by a made remarkable stucco plasterers known by Raymond Bernard and Sixth and frescoes by the painter Giuseppe Palermo Meli.Sull 'altar in a niche, was placed the SS. Crucifix made of oak, by the thirteenth century, moved to Santa Margherita from the church of San Nicolò in Adragna the early settlers came to reside permanently the "land" of Santa Margherita.


Palace today Filangeri Park hosts the literary Tomasi di Lampedusa, and the Museum of Memory , of \u200b\u200bwhich the President Boniface prof.Tanino . In the pictures Beatrice Feo in direct maternal line descendant of the Filangeri Cutò, gives the Museum of Santa Margherita Belice family documents about 20 Filangeri family tree ...

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