Museum of sacred art - San Marco d'Alunzio

Set up in the Church of San Giuseppe, the Museum of Sacred Art in San Marco d'Alunzio was born in 1996 with the aim of enhancing and making accessible to the general public a huge and precious historical-artistic heritage, a prestigious testimony of the religious fervor of the Aluntian municipality . The museum, which houses about 300 pieces from the churches of the town, represents the first cultural initiative created by a parish community of the Diocese of Patti. Thanks to the wise work of parish priest and collaborators, inside the Museum of Sacred Art it is possible to admire sacred vestments dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, noble coats of arms carved on local red marble, ex voto, reliquaries, valuable canvas paintings, wooden statues of the XV and XVI century, including the Madonna Odigitria and other sacred objects of great symbolic as well as historical-artistic value. Of particular note is also the silver room which houses works carved by Messina and Palermo silversmiths, the bronze tabernacle doors and the bells cast in the ancient foundries of Tortorici.