Chiesa di San Giuliano

Catania

The church of San Giuliano, attributed to Vaccarini and built between 1739 and 1751, is certainly the most important building in Via Crociferi. Surrounded by a precious wrought iron gate, has a convex façade on which it is inserted the entrance to a towering crown front on which rest two allegorical female figures. The interior is octagonal, is crowned by a large dome, painted by the painter Giuseppe Catania Rapisardi, and surrounded by a gallery from which the nuns followed the procession of the Feast of St. Agata. There is also an altar, a real work of art, rich of marbles, bronzes and statues, the top of which is a temple to the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and a precious crucifix panel painting of the fourteenth century. The other altars you can see the Madonna delle Grazie with St. Joseph and St. Benedict of Olivio Sozzi, a San Giuliano by an anonymous artist of the eighteenth century. Saint Anthony the Abbot and a seventeenth century.