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artistic and monumental heritage

Linguaglossa (Part IV)

On the Square City Hall stands the imposing monument to the fallen of the First World War. On the pedestal stands a bronze statue of 's leading Italy Victory 1924, author and designer was the great Venetian sculptor, Attilio Torresini. Overlooking the square stands the Town Hall Church of San Francesco di Paola the first building in the sixteenth century on the structure of the existing church of the Madonna dell'Oreto.

The advanced body of the bell tower and portico that supports the corridor linking the old Convent of the Vincentians the Choir of the Church, both in 1610, blocked the main facade. The bell tower was capped by a spire, which collapsed with the 1908 earthquake that destroyed Messina.

The entrance is graced by a very simple bronze doors by sculptor Salvatore Embed in 1980. In the six bronze panels, the author wanted to retrace the life of the Holy 'Charitas'.

The interior of the church with a nave and barrel vault, is full of baroque stucco. On the first altar on the right is the statue of the Madonna dell'Oreto "molded into the ideal forms and sweetest in amber coating that knows how to manipulate time." E 'attributed to the great sculptor of the sixteenth century Domenico Gagini. The recent restoration of the chapel revealed earlier frescoes, especially those of very interesting time in telling them overlap the various phases in which art is committed over the years.

The second altar on the right chromed terra cotta statue of San Francesco di Paola , perhaps is the work of the sixteenth century by an unknown author.

altars left Sant'Alfio small statues of St. Philip and Blacks. Also on the left, a beautiful example of sectarian-pulpit in Baroque style with interesting paintings. Of great importance in the vault of the nave and the apse, in stucco frames, and frescoes that tell the facts of the miracles of the Holy Charitas. The frescoes are attributed to Giacinto Platania (1612-1691) of Acireale, but not to exclude other authors such as Mignemi, Grease and many times that Frere worked in the church. Central

In the fresco of the vault into a mixed-line frame is painted the ' Apotheosis of San Francesco di Paola the other two frescoes depicting St. Francis resuscitating a dead and el'indemoniato San Francisco. In the bowl depicts the glory of the saint, Saint Francis is here surrounded by the three theological virtues, Faith, Hope, Charity, and St. Michael by the Angel who has a shield with the motto of the Vincentians " Charitas" . The altarpiece depicts the Trinitarian Dogma. The paintings on the wall right represent The Holy healing a paralytic and The Battle of Lepanto (1571), those on the left wall The prisoner freed by the Holy and San Francisco to the Court of the King of Naples . Other interesting works in the church are the Sacred Source bronze work of sculptor Salvatore Embed in 1960, the polychrome marble altars and the large body of 1780. On the church square to the left of an artistic work happy fountain by sculptor Sebastian Milluzzo of Catania 1959. In the frame of the fountain are six panels engraved with the story of the miracle of Sant'Egidio and the old.

Next to the church of San Francesco di Paola stands imposingly Town Hall with a Gothic facade in New Style. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the old seat of Piazza Annunziata, was no longer suitable to the people of the country, and then decided to build a new 'tenement city', using the land occupied by the structures of the former Convent of the Vincentians, who by Hotel 1866 had become of the Poor.

The project was drafted in 1907 by Eng. Finocchiaro Peter Grassi Giarre, and became executive with resolution of 19 August 1907.

The interior is very simple, in the room of the Municipal Council there are two tombstones that recall both the redemption of the city from a feudal state property and even a picture that represents the scene of the payment of specified sum to 'buy' freedom from Prince Orazio Bonanno. Work performed by Tiziana Chiappani, Anna and Joseph Cristaudo the Guzzi in 1998.

The Town Hall is an interesting modern art gallery with paintings of some artistic value, these stand out among the paintings of Goofy Giuffrida, Salvatore Embed, Carlo Levi, Gaetano Longo, Santi Marchese, Santa Marina, Montarsolo Carlo, Francesco Patanè, Francesco Trombadori and Mario Vasta. (Part IV)