Parrocchia Collegiata S. Maria di Betlem

About

The collegiate church of Santa Maria di Betlem is a palimpsest of extreme artistic importance in the Hyblaean landscape, the result of continuous transformations, adaptations and additions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, with historical-artistic elements that start from late Gothic culture up to nineteenth-century eclecticism . On the right side of the apse is the Palatine Chapel or Santa Maria di Betlem. Relevant to the first half of the 500 'brings with it Gothic and Renaissance elements. The entrance portal is made up of columns decorated with grotesque motifs, with suns and lion heads. The chapel is completed by a hemispherical cap in which medallions with heads of Roman emperors are inserted. The portal is one of the few testimonies of Modica before the 1693 earthquake.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 30 minutes