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Built in 1330, it was located in the palazzo of Matteo Sclafani, a feudal lord, near the Palazzo Reale. In 1429 the Senate purchased the building when it decided to bring together the 25 hospitals of the city. Today, the seat of the Sicilian Military Command. AC, 100.
Ospedale Grande
Church on the Cassaro, built between 1634 and 1647 and entrusted to the Brotherhood of Miseremini, who were mainly concerned with celebrating masses for the souls in Purgatory. PCG, 61.
the Church of San Matteo
The celebrated fresco Il Trionfo della Morte
(The Triumph of Death) now located in Palazzo Abatellis
Pietro Novelli (1603-47), the greatest Sicilian painter of the seventeenth century. Two of his works are in the Church of San Matteo. AC, 101.
