Next to the old Town Hall stands the magnificent Palazzo Morelli, with its beautiful baroque portal with the bearings of the family from Catania. In the outside courtyard one immediately notices how spacious the area around the outside staircase is. This was characteristic of noble dwellings. From Via Morelli into Via Dott. Guarnieri and then into Via Dott. Oliva, where half way up on  the right you see the admirable Church of St. Nicholas. Erected around 1660 thanks to the initiative of the De Aprile family, it is hardly recognizable among the houses. The only visible part is the plain façade, whose bellgabel­ has unfourtunately collapsed.

 Inside the barrel vault and the small dome are entirely covered with paintings portraying the life of the saint of Mira, the musician-angels, scenes of hermit life, the four Evangelists and God the Father surrounded by cherubs. There is only one altar made of stone, over which there is a broken tympanum niche from the sixteenth-century with a panel depic­ting St. Nicolas and St. Antony of Padua in adoration of the Holy Sacrament. On one of the walls there is a small stone relief-picture representing a crucifixion, more ancient than the church itself and of doubtful origin.

Continuing on your itinerary, turning right at the end of the road, you come to Piazza Fra G. Andrea Rodio, where the massive structure of the Mother Church towers above everything; it is a monumental edifice called after St. George martyr and erected between 1790 and 1825 on the same site where once stood two churches, one after the other, which were respectively dated to 1195 and 1500. The neo-sixteenth-century façade, with two rows, has a relief picture of St. George with the dragon in the tympanum, and lower down at the end, the statues of St. Peter and Paul. At the four corners of the church tower, which overlooks the valley, the statues of the Veronica and the three Mary, once part of the previous church, can be seen.

The flat arched dome, was once covered with multi coloured enamelled terra-cotta tiles, destroyed by a lightning in 1841. It is shaped like an inscribed Greek cross and its composition is characterized by the simple and clear neoclassical style which blends with the baroque and Renaissance art works survived from the previous church. Inside, on the left, you find the altar of the Holy Sacrament built in Naples in 1764. Very admirable are the 42 stonerelief pictures, with scenes from the Old and New Testament, sculptured between 1591 and 1613, the marble altar built in Naples in 1764, and the canvas of “the Last Supper’ painted in 1841 by the Neapolitan painter Gennaro Maldarelli. 

Public garden and St. Anna's church

 Morelli's palace

 St. George in Mother church

St. Anna's old church

Templari's street