The guide said, just call it the 'Tina Turner' church. Nobody knows how to pronounce its name. Finally a baroque church, this trip was all Gothic all the time. It's been about 3 years since our last experience with any baroque church. I first fell in love with baroque 4 years ago when I visited the little and very baroque city of Leece in Southern Italy. From then on I couldn't get enough. This led to 2 trips to Sicily to experience Sicilian baroque.
Unlike its Sicilian counterparts, this church is full of light and clean. Sicilian baroque churches are dark and stained, quite unusual and beautiful too. Most of the Eastern part of Sicilian was destroyed by a big earthquake and most of the churches were rebuilt in the baroque style, it being in vogue at the same time as a counter reformation movement. The church had to restyle their churches in order to attract people back to its fold. We, the modern tourists became the beneficiary of such a movement.
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