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The monumental organ

Above the entrance to the nave is a monumental wooden organ built in 1924 with three thousand two hundred pipes, twenty-three registers and two keyboards, the work of the Polizzi brothers for the instrumental part and the Foti brothers of ...
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The right nave

Starting from the right side, there is a first altar with a painting of the Trinity and the Holy Souls in Purgatory by an anonymous 18th-century author. Continuing on, there is a chapel built around 1750: an image of Saint ...
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The main altar

In the ceiling we find the famous episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus. On either side of the fresco are two medallions depicting St John the Baptist and St Matthew. In the centre is the artistic wooden statue of the ...
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L’abside

Nel soffitto troviamo il famoso episodio della trasfigurazione di Gesù. Ai lati dell’affresco si evidenzia la presenza di due medaglioni raffiguranti San Giovanni Battista e San Matteo. Al centro si trova l’artistica statua in legno dell’Immacolata, realizzata dallo scultore napoletano ...