Enna heart of Sicily and enchantment of millenary history...

ASSORO- S.LION’S CHURCH

The first foundation stone of Assoro’s big church was laid during the XII century in S.Lion’s honour; then it was rebuilt during the XV century. This worship place suffered different remaking in the following centuries, among which the rebuilding of the front in the eighteenth century with a portal in gothic catalan style. The inside is divided into three aisles of baroque style which support pointed archs of gothic style , the crucifix painted upon both the faces, of the fifteenth century is leaning from the wooden beam ceiling lacunar of the sixteenth century . From that period we found the marble altar-piece in the apse, the font and the six wooden statues of the Saints. Upon a fascinating cross, fused in siver with bass-relief in gold by Vincenzo Archifal in the sixteenth century, preserved in the sacristy, appear the crucified Christ’s and rised Christs faces.