Mother Church of San Nicola - San Marco d'Alunzio

In the medieval quarter of San Marco d'Alunzio, there is the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò di Bari built between 1584 and 1800. The building, with a single nave, has a facade characterized by three portals in local red marble and an elegant rosette. Inside it is possible to admire 12 sixteenth-century side chapels full of canvases, wooden statues and other works of considerable value. Of particular note, the late Renaissance marble tabernacle adorned with angels, present in the High Altar, the organ with the choir in gilded wood dating back to 1700, a baptismal font in red Aluntino marble, the canvases depicting the Last Supper and the SS. Trinity of the eighteenth century, a canvas of 1655 depicting the Madonna of the Rosary by Giuseppe Tomasi, two Renaissance statues in white Carrara marble depicting the Patron Saints Mark and Nicholas, two seventeenth-century wooden statues depicting the Patron Saints and a red marble sarcophagus of the Archpriest J. Lanza Filingeri.