by crescia@skylabstudios.net | Oct 16, 2023 | Historical sites
The rock village On the south side of the village there is a system of caves connected by stairs carved into the rock. They are the most characteristic and scenic part of the rock site. The caves are currently presented as dwellings, obtained from the expansion of...
by crescia@skylabstudios.net | Oct 16, 2023 | Churches
The church of San Giovanni Battista The construction of the main church of Sperlinga, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was built between 1597 and 1610, thanks to the collaboration of the entire population of the country, who contributed by transporting the stones on...
by crescia@skylabstudios.net | Oct 16, 2023 | Churches
The church of the Madonna della Mercede In the square below the castle is the church dedicated to an important local cult: the feast of the Madonna della Mercede, celebrated the fourth week of September. On Friday evening the statue of the Madonna della Mercede...
by crescia@skylabstudios.net | Oct 12, 2023 | Churches
The church of the convent The church of Sant’Anna is also called the Convent because it is annexed to the former sperlinghese monastery of the barefoot Augustinians, a religious order founded in 1593 in the “kingdom of the two Sicilies”, born from the Congregation of...
by crescia@skylabstudios.net | Oct 12, 2023 | Historical sites
Baronial rooms and the ingrotted This part of the castle was used as a dwelling at the end of the sixteenth century, by the Natoli family, which formally sanctioned the birth of Sperlinga as a town, thanks to the licentia populandi obtained by Giovanni Forte Natoli....
