Through the Via Roma to the Piazza San Giuliano, in which stands the church of the same name, which was built under Roger II in 1076 and restored in the 17th/18th centuries. The Via Filippo Guarnotti leads to the Church of San Carlo (17th century on the left) and immediately after it on the right to the Church of San Pietro (1363, restored in the 18th century) as well as the nearby Instituto di San Rocco,a former monastery.
The street opens out on to the Piazza San Domenico with the Church of San Michele founded in 1486. Today this church, like San Rocco, is used by the cultural organization "Ettore Majorana". This research center was founded in 1963 and named after a Sicilian scientist (in 1965 the writer Leonardo Sciascia wrote a novel, "La scomparsa di Majorana", "The Fall of Ettore Majorana", 1978, which is concerned with the scientist's fate). The research center encompasses 80 branches of science. It published the "Manifesto di Erice" in 1982, a polemic against the nuclear arms race.
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