It is one of the oldest churches in the current city of Scicli, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1693 under concession from the Confrati of the church of San Michele Arcangelo to the Augustinian nuns. The reconstruction works, begun in the second half of the eighteenth century by the Syracusan architect Michelangelo Alessi, concluded in 1859 under the guidance of the architect Giuseppe Far» Palermo. The main façade has three orders, with a slightly convex surface enlivened by free columns with Corinthian capitals which, in the first order, flank the main portal surmounted by a heraldic shield; in the second order, a window enriched with floral motifs and closed by a wrought iron window. The third order denotes a neoclassical architecture characterized by a triangular tympanum that concludes the facade and by flat pilaster strips with Corinthian capitals that replace the columns and frame the belfry decorated with festoons. Of extreme interest is the solution given to the side portal of via F. Mormina Penna as the architect having to deal with a small space resorts to illusionistic effects. The interior is an extraordinary jewel of art and there is no shortage of stuccos, frescoes, paintings, sculptures, decorations reproducing musical instruments in relief, called "musical choirs". The colors and stuccos of the whole are not those originating from the eighteenth century but the work of the sculptor Giuseppe Sesta Poliziano in 1851. On the curved surface there are four altars on which are placed paintings depicting St. Augustine, St. Michael the Archangel, the Adoration of the Magi to Baby Jesus and an oval depicting the Madonna delle Grazie and finally a wooden crucifix dating back to the fourteenth century. On the vault there are paintings from the second half of the century XIX depicting episodes from the life of St. Augustine by Gaetano Of Stefano. In the sacristy, precious remains of Christian Saints and Martyrs are preserved in an artistic reliquary.
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