18TH CENTURY DRAWING OF PIAZZA ARMERINA

The view of Piazza Armerina Enna Sicily from the West shows us the mother church finally topped by the dome.

If we consider that the local master (does not state whether our city) Michele Boncardi, realized in 1760 the brick drum shall bear the dome and that architect Carter Wannasurf full in 1767, this design very It's probably from that period.

In addition to the dome are top right the Aragonese castle, under the mother church, the Church of the guardian angels, further down the Church of St. Nicholas (later also of Madonna della Catena), which in those years threat ruin, and a major port, the Catalans.

Top left the steeple of the Church of San Francesco.
At that time counts 16,000 inhabitants and Platia 1735 is no longer part of the Habsburg realm but of the Spanish realm of the Bourbons.
The Spanish King Charles III of Spain decreed the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 by the Kingdom of the two Sicilies.
Only in Sicily are closed, including 35 Jesuit colleges well to Platia erected over one hundred and sixty years before.

18TH CENTURY DRAWING OF PIAZZA ARMERINA

GAETANO MASUZZO, Piazza Armerina