Santa Maria della Gancia, Palermo

The church facade is a hybrid of late Spanish Gothic portal and plain awkward Renaissance windows.

The second chapel on the right has a painting depicting the Madonna and Saints Catherine and Agata (1528) by Antonello da Palermo.

The pilasters of the Presbytery have the Virgin and St Gabriel by Antonello Gagini, who also has works in the 6th chapel on the left.

Two were able to escape by hiding amid corpses in the crypt tombs, and later tunneling out through a small perforation in the wall (buca della salvezza) still marked on Via Allora.

The 13 men executed were honored with an Obelisk erected at the Piazza delle XIII Vittime at the intersection of Via Cavour and Via Francesco Crispi.

(Cummentu di la Gancia) Convent of La Gancia)
buca della salvezza