Church of SS. Salvatore - Tortorici

In the Church of SS. Salvatore, built before 1416, the Greek rite was practiced until 1502. Flooded by the flood of 1682, the Church was rebuilt in 1985. Inside there are valuable works, testimony to the creative fervor of local artists: the central wooden altar built by craftsmen of the school of Sebastiano Leone which houses the Madonna of Itria supported by two Basialini, several paintings by the painter Giuseppe Tomasi da Tortorici: Lo Spasimo di Sicilia (free reworking of Raphael), The Transfiguration (1668), Madonna and Child with SS. Antonio da Padova and Felice da Cantalice (1658), Jesus and Mary (1667), Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Jesus before Pilate. In the left aisle, on the walls of the baptismal font, you can admire the frescoes made by the Villa brothers that reproduce glimpses of the landscape of Tortorici, at the bottom is a valuable organ, the work of Annibale Lo Bianco of 1735. On Good Friday evening, he starts from this Church is the suggestive and traditional procession of the Varette.