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- monuments and museums
- MONASTERO DEL SS. SALVATORE
- PORTA CARMINE
- CHIESA E CONVENTO DEL CARMINE
- MONASTERO E CHIESA DI SAN CARLO
- CHIESA MADRE E CAMPANILE
- MURA ELIMO PUNICHE
- TORRI DEL BALIO
- CHIESA DI SANT'ORSOLA O ADDOLORATA
- CHIESA DI SAN GIULIANO
- CHIESA DI SAN CATALDO
- CASTELLO NORMANNO E TEMPIO DI VENERE
- INGINOCCHIATOIO PER LA MADONNA DI CUSTONACI
- PORTA SPADA
- CHIESA DI SAN PIETRO
- QUARTIERE SPAGNOLO
- CHIESA DI SAN MARTINO
- PIAZZA UMBERTO I
- CHIESA SAN DOMENICO
- PORTA TRAPANI
- CASA MILITARI
- CHIESA DI SAN GIOVANNI
CENTRO DI CULTURA SCIENTIFICA "ETTORE MAIORANA"
Built in 1542 as a monastery next to the Saint Peter’s Church. The building was used a convent by the Clarisse sisters up to the middle of the nineteenth century. After 1866, with its religious dissolution, the city used it as an orphanage giving it the name of “Queen Margaret Institute”. With the return of the clergy, the sisters of Saint Vincent changed only the name of the institute to “Saint Rocco Institute” while remaining an orphanage. The main façade has an interesting portal with an oval arvch form with evident markings of the fifth century. Since 1963 it is the seat off the International Centre of Scientific Culture “Ettore Majorana”.