Santissima Annunziata, Alcamo

One can visit the church and the adjoining convent of the Carmelites (today the police station’s premises) in Piazza Libertà.

[1] The square bell tower, located on the right side of the entrance, was realised at the beginning of the 15th century, and was accessible from the church.

Beginning in the 16th century, they started a second elevation and later would build a music stand leaning on an arch, and stretching from the bell tower as far as the new protruding chapel.

[7][8] The church, with a trapezoidal plan, had a nave and two aisles separated by two rows of tuff columns, with very low capitals decorated with floral forms and animals,[9] each one different from the other.

[9] The front door has two large decorative fillets adorned with intaglios representing leaf work of Norman style.

On the high altar there was a white marble sculpture entitled “The Annunciation” representing the kneeling Virgin with the Archangel Gabriel next to her and the Holy Father above them.

Details of a column and an apse inside the church.
The Annunciation by the Gagini, hosted in church of Saint Olivia .