Church of S. Elia - Alcara li Fusi

This church was built before 1574 on the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to the goddess Fortuna. Attached to it was the Capuchin Convent, which was lost after a fire in 1956. The religious building is characterized externally by the simple facade enriched by a local limestone portal. The interior, recently restored, houses works of pictorial art and wooden carving of great value. Among the masterpieces, the splendid wooden structure of the main altar, which frames the altarpiece which portrays the Madonna with Saints Francesco, Nicolò Politi and Elia, is a work by Friar Umile da Messina of 1656. Other pictorial works are : the canvas of San Vito, the Sant'Anna from 1599 in the Messina area of ​​Raphaelesque taste and the Immaculate Conception, the first documented work by Giuseppe Tomasi da Tortorici. The wooden crucifix is ​​also valuable.