Altar front - Sant' Agata al Collegio Church in Caltanissetta

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Altar front - Sant' Agata al Collegio Church in Caltanissetta

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Altar front - Sant'Agata al Collegio Church in Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy.

The church of St. Agatha at College with its polycromatic marble was built between 1600 and 1610 on an existing church, also dedicated to St. Agatha, in late-Renaissance style. The façade is by Natale Masuccio, and is decorated by frameworks on a light coloured background. It has a Greek cross plant, with splendid Baroque decorations includings frescoes by Luigi Borremans (18th century). The works of the adjacent Jesuit College (from which the church is named) began in 1589 and ended until the second half of the 19th century.

The church has a Greek cross plan, with four arms of equal length and four side chapels. The interior is covered with marble or stucco slabs imitating marble, where the abbreviation "IHS", identifying the Jesuit order, occurs.

Caltanissetta (pronounced [kaltanisˈsetta] (About this soundlisten); Sicilian: Nissa or Cartanisetta) is a comune in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Caltanissetta. Its inhabitants are called Nisseni.

In 2017, the city had a population of 62,797. It is the 14th largest comune in Italy measured by area, the sixth highest comune in Italy by elevation (568 m), the second highest elevation in Sicily after the city of Enna (912 m). (Description from Wikipedia)

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