Militello in Val di Catania. Church an Monastery of San Francesco di Paola all’Annunziata dei frati minimi

Antonio Piero Barresi built a church for S. Maria Annunziata around 1480, enlarged with the monastery between 1503 and 1515. The Dominicans settled there and, from 1613, the Friars Minims of San Francesco di Paola. The church is embellished on the outside by a portico with columns, decorated with frescoes with the Glory of Paradise and the Pene of Purgatory; the interior nave is covered with late-baroque stuccos, while those of the high altar are from the seventeenth century, framing the statue of the saint.