Cerami - Cerami

Cerami is a city of Sicily.

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It is a municipality located in the Nebrodi Park.

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• 37.81181614.508371 Mother church (Cathedral of Sant'Ambrogio), Piazza Matrice, 8. It was built between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The works were probably completed in 1520. The sacred building has undergone, over time, several restorations and various tampering. In 1755, among others, the works for the paving were carried out. Around 1773 the vault of the main nave with the roof was rebuilt. A few years later the church was enlarged and enlarged. Around 1850 some stuccos were repaired and redone. Some decorations were made towards the end of the century. The bell tower dates back to 1700.

The main facade, rebuilt at the beginning of this century with smooth ashlar, is very simple, with the exception of the niche with highlighted ashlars and the single lancet window. The church has a longitudinal plan and includes three naves ending in three apses with presbyters equal to each other, except in the width. The central nave is barrel-shaped, the lateral ones have bowl vaults.  

• 37.80987514.5099142 Church of Sant'Antonio Abate. Building presumably built in the second half of the sixteenth century. In the second half of the eighteenth century the valuable stuccos of the three naves were executed by a Giuseppe Schiacchitano from Capizzi. On a design by the architect Fernando Castellana, around 1870, a bell tower was built. The valuable portal is characterized by dense phytomorphic friezes, the terminal cornice in a composite order. During the consolidation works, carried out following the 1967 earthquake, the façade was defaced by white cement plaster. During the same works the choir stalls were destroyed. The organ was also damaged.  
• Church of the Madonna del Carmelo. There are various and extensive discrepancies on the time of erection of this church. Historians have come to the conclusion that around 1530 the Carmelite Convent was built with an adjoining church, which in 1620 was enlarged, or partially rebuilt and embellished by the portal. The hypothesis is supported by the stylistic examination of the temple. Particularly beautiful and original is, in its entity, the group of the portal of clear Baroque intonation. In this church there is one of the thirty-three wooden crucifixes sculpted by Frate Umile from Petralia. It is a work, that of Cerami, to be placed in the period of the Franciscan's full artistic maturity. 

• 37.81228614.5078163 Church of San Sebastiano, S. Sebastiano square. Until 1600 a church dedicated to San Sebastiano stood near Porta Umbria, to the west of the castle. It was in 1612 that on the initiative of a priest it was decided to build, in honor of the same saint, a new church, which stands not far from the old one, of which today two arches are visible. The current church of San Sebastiano has undergone, over time, restoration work, as well as additions and modifications, and was, at the beginning of the last century, the cause of a heated dispute between the homonymous brotherhood and the local clergy, due to bullying of the latter. The church has a single nave. The façade is severe, framed by pillars and ashlar pilasters. The decoration is sober. Overall, the church shows the essential features of late Renaissance architecture. 
• 37.8109514.5085794 Church of San Benedetto, Via Capitano Giuseppe Catania. There is no precise information on the date of erection. His knowledge is linked to the sanctuary of the Madonna della Lavina. From the stylistic examination it can be deduced that this church, in its current structure, except for the facade, dates back to the first half of the eighteenth century. The Benedictine nuns, having destroyed their monastery, which stood in the Lavina district, where today the homonymous sanctuary stands, would have moved to a new one, built in a neighborhood, at that time peripheral to the inhabited center, but we do not know when this happened. . The monastery, in the last century, was confiscated by the state and later alienated in favor of private individuals, who transformed it into residential houses. The church has a central plan, of the late Baroque type. The stuccos are beautiful and delicate. In this church are preserved the precious fourteenth-century altarpiece of the Madonna della Lavina and a canvas, depicting the Assumption, by Giuseppe Rapisardi. It is known that there were many other artistic works of great value. 
• 37.81331614.509055 Stone Lion. 

Events and parties

• Carnival. 
• Good Friday. 
• Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. last Saturday of May. 
• "Encounter" between St. Joseph and the Most Holy Mary. first Sunday of July. 
• Feast of Sant'Antonio Abate. last Sunday of July. Preceded, the day before, by the "Cavalcata". 
• Madonna SS. of Carmel. second Sunday of August. 
• Ntrata u lauru. August 27. Parade of laurel flags that believers carry on their heads. 
• Feast of San Sebastiano. August 28. 
• Festival of "cavatieddu atturratu". summer. 
• Madonna of Lavina. 7-8 September. Evocative is the long pilgrimage through which the faithful, on the night between 6 and 7 September, pay homage to the Madonna: starting from the nearby town, Troina, pilgrims reach the sanctuary on foot, many even barefoot. 

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• 37.77749814.4942481 Cicero's bridge (Old Bridge) (Road between the and the ). Ancient bridge built in Norman times built on the Cerami river in one of the most important crossroads of medieval Sicily. 
• 37.84806114.547122 Fortresses of Cunnulio. 
• Troina
• Capizzi
• Nicosia

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