Chiesa Madre di Santa Maria Immacolata, Belpasso

The mother church of Belpasso is dedicated to Mary Most Holy Immaculate and is located in the Piazza Duomo.

Built in the 1700s to the design of architect Bellia, it is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, although in religious tradition the most vivid cult is that of St. Lucy, patron saint of the city, whose relics and simulacrum are kept inside a chapel dedicated to the Martyr, called "Cammaredda," inside a niche rich in red damask and gilded stucco. It is veiled by the door called the door of the angels and the door in which we find relief panels with the life of the saint and her martyrdom. The religious building has the typical façade also found in other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century churches in the area, with a rectangular elevation divided into three bays by a giant order of four pilasters supporting the entablature, all adorned by a typical Baroque bell tower, which houses seven bells, including the "Campanone di Santa Lucia" among the largest bells in Italy. The interior, built with a three-nave basilical layout punctuated by arches on mighty pillars, holds much of the artwork of the former city.