Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo - Mirto

Built in the 16th century on a pre-existing Norman-style cult building, the Mother Church is dedicated to Maria SS. Assunta. Monumental in size, this building has splendid sandstone portals on the outside. In particular, the south of the sixteenth century and those of the main facade of the early eighteenth century. The interior of the church, with three naves, is characterized by a twentieth-century coffered ceiling with starry motifs in the center of which a sculpture of the Assumption Virgin is depicted. The high altar is embellished with a splendid wooden case, the work of Filadelfio Allò from Mese, which contains the wooden statue of the Li Volsi depicting the patron saint Santa Tecla. Among the works present, also a sixteenth-century ciborium by Antonello Gagini, a marble Madonna della Catena and a large number of pictorial works by Giuseppe Tomasi da Tortorici.