Militello in Val di Catania. Church and Female Monastery of Sant’Agata

A church with a reclusori already existed in the early 1500s.

Used as a boarding school for spinsters, the monastery was granted to the Benedictine nuns. The neoclassical style of the façade dates back to the end of the 1700s.

In one nave, it preserves the high altar with a seventeenth-century chapel in polychrome stone, in which the statue with the fercolo of the Madonna delle Grazie is exposed.

It preserves the beautiful grating of the choir, an eighteenth-century pipe organ and the seventeenth-century statues of Sant’Agata and other Virgin Martyrs.