Siracusa - Santa Lucia

 
Santa Lucia in Syracuse is a 12th century triple-aisled columned basilica. It replaced an earlier church which was built in the sixth century on the spot where St Lucia was murdered. The portal and rose-window above it at the west end of the church are remnants of the old Gothic building. Baroque porticoes have been built on this end and on the south side.

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The original open roof trusses still remain, otherwise the interior has been converted to the Baroque style. The altar-piece "The Interment of St Lucia" is now in the Palazzo Bellomo. Large numbers of graves were uncovered in recent excavations made in the west portico of the church.

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