I made sure I had a safe parking space for the night, and the car was still there this morning...
We headed out of town on the Autostrada toward the South East, and made a first stop at Castelvedrano:
The old town center is charming enough, if not exceptional, but there is an unassuming little church(on the outside) that is well worth the detour: la Chiesa San Domenico:
The town was the fiefdom of the Taviglia family, and they commissioned the work. It was built in the late 15th Century, and was redecorated in the 16th in a totally over the top Sicilian Baroque Style. The choir is entirely covered with the most exuberant stucco work I ever saw, with painted, gilded high relief figures hanging acrobatically everywhere:
The older fresco work is magnificent too:
The ensemble quite unique.
We headed out of town on the Autostrada toward the South East, and made a first stop at Castelvedrano:
The old town center is charming enough, if not exceptional, but there is an unassuming little church(on the outside) that is well worth the detour: la Chiesa San Domenico:
The town was the fiefdom of the Taviglia family, and they commissioned the work. It was built in the late 15th Century, and was redecorated in the 16th in a totally over the top Sicilian Baroque Style. The choir is entirely covered with the most exuberant stucco work I ever saw, with painted, gilded high relief figures hanging acrobatically everywhere:
The older fresco work is magnificent too:
The ensemble quite unique.
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