The flat tall facade is decorated just above the main portal with symbols of the martyred patron of Siracusa, St Lucy; these include a column, a sword, a palm, and a crown.

[2] On the second floor is an elaborate metal balcony from where the cloistered nuns could view processions and celebrations in the piazza without mingling with the outside world.

The church suffered much damage during the Second World War, and has been reconstructed to match the prior late Baroque interiors.

A modified ceremony is still re-enacted in the piazza del Duomo, every December during the Festa di Santa Lucia.

[5] Other decorations inside the church include stuccoes (1705) by Biagio Bianco of Licodia, some of them gilded in the late 18th century.

A second-story connection spanning the Via delle Virgine likely implies that the building across the street was part of the cloistered monastery.