Chiesa Madre Maria Santissima Assunta, Adrano

The layout of the present church is mainly due to works patronized by Duke Francesco II Moncada between 1572 and 1592.

In front of the church are lava stone pillars that were meant to support at tall bell-tower, commissioned in the late 19th century by the provost Salvatore Petronio Russo, and designed by Carlo Sada.

This expensive project became mired due to costs and disputes, and after decades of fitful construction only a skeletal bell-tower was present by 1957.

[1] The Chapel of the Holiest Sacrament at the left in the transept has an altarpiece depicting the Last Supper (16th-century), attributed to the Luis de Morales.

In the Chapel of the Sacred Heart on the right, there are 19th-century altarpieces, depicting the Repentance of the Magdalene and the Apparition of Jesus to Beata Alacoque by Giuseppe Guzzardi.