Sant'Agata is a

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church located in

Vizzini Vizzini is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Catania, on the island of Sicily, southern Italy. It is located from Catania in the Hyblaean Mountains, on the most northwesterly slopes of Monte Lauro. The commune territory is bou ...

, in the region of

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, Italy.

History and description

A church at the site was built during the Angevin rule in Sicily, and likely had a gothic style. Destroyed by the

1693 Sicily earthquake The 1693 Sicily earthquake was a natural disaster that struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, then a territory part of the Crown of Aragon by the Kings of Spain Calabria and Malta, on 11 January at around 21:00 local time. This earthquake was ...

, it was rebuilt and the parish united to the nearby church of San Pietro, which had also been destroyed. The church with three naves has an interior rich in stucco. The main altarpiece depicts the ''Martyrdom of Saint Agatha'' (1614) by Bonino Pingebat. The

Baroque style The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (i ...

has a rich stone decoration.Comune of Vizzini
website, tourism entry on church.

References

18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy {{Sicily-RC-church-stub