DRAWING ON PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA OF 1628

View of the city from the East before 1628

Questo is the second drawing found among the writings of Canon Philip Piazza (1884-1959) which proposes another view of our city again from the East, that is from the top of the neighborhood Casalotto.
You do not know the author, but the period refers to prior 1628 because it proposes again the old mother church with an apse which will be demolished next year and between 1628 and, at the same time, will be carried out on the body of the presbytery.

The view is the same of the first three views which I have already spoken.
The central door of St John the Baptist with St Stephen's Church outside the walls.
Always the central street, now via Garibaldi, which leads to piazza Maggiore or, as it was called from 1569, Pescara, in honor of the visit of the viceroy of Sicily Ferdinand de Avalos Marquis of Pescara. On the left of the big road the clearing of Patrisanto (Theatines), then the Aragonese castle, right clockwise the mother church in transformation, with the Bell Tower designed behind the Church and without the dome.
Then the Church with the monastery of San Francesco, descending to the right the door Castellina with Tower next door and, finally, the Commenda di s. Giovanni Battista with steeple, which has now disappeared.

DRAWING ON PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA OF 1628

GAETANO MASUZZO, Piazza Armerina