| Isnello | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Sicily | |
| Territory | Madonie | |
| Altitude | 580 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 51 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 1.448 (2019) | |
| Name inhabitants | Isnellesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0921 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 90010 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | St. Nicholas | |
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Isnello is a city of Sicily.
To know
Isnello is a city that is part of the Madonie Park.
Geographical notes
The watercourse, called Isnello, which descends from the Madonie, laps the town to the north, to wedge itself into a suggestive narrow canyon formed between the hill of the castle and the steep wall of the Montagna Grotta Grande.
How to orient yourself
Isnello: full screen map.The urban layout is clearly of Arab origin. Narrow alleys with sudden changes in slope. Developed at the foot of the castle, it gradually expanded to form the four districts separated by two axes arranged roughly in a cross: the corso and via Carmelo Virga and via Roma and S. Maria. At the crossroads stands the main square, where the mother church stands with its towering bell tower. To the east, the neighborhoods arose in the nineteenth century.
How to get
How to get around
What see
Mother church entrance
- 1 Mother Church of San Nicolò, Via Matrice, 2, ☎ 390921662008. The mother church dedicated to the patron saint St. Nicholas of Bari appears to the visitor in the layout given to it between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. The apse is decorated with stuccoes dated 1607, the work of Giuseppe Li Volsi from Nicosia. Valuable is the mechanical organ whose furniture dates back to 1625, commissioned by Giuseppe Coccia, a local patron who also commissioned the decoration of the chapel of the Addolorata, the patronal chapel of his family, of the chapel of the SS. Sacramento, the wooden machine of the High Altar of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo and various works in the Sanctuary of Gibilmanna. Also interesting are the sixteenth-century marble Tabernacle near Domenico Gagini, the wooden choir of 1601 by Giuseppe Di Maggio and Giacomo Mangio, the wooden statue of the Patron Saint Nicholas, dated 1689 (attributable to Giovanni Pietro Ragona), the wooden Crucifix by Giuseppe Li Volsi of 1619.
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
Bell tower of the church of San Michele
- 2 Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The Church of Santa Maria Maggiore which dominates the town, in its façade, is interesting for the spire of the bell tower covered with colored majolica. Inside it houses valuable seventeenth-century paintings, a fifteenth-century double-faced hanging cross, the wooden crucifix of 1635, close to the artistic style of fra 'Innocenzo da Petralia.
- 3 Church of San Michele Arcangelo, Via S. Michele, 25, ☎ 390921662008. It preserves a series of frescoes that can be placed between the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the organ, the pulpit and the wooden tabernacle, works by the sculptor Pietro Bencivinni commissioned by the Sac. Giuseppe Piraino, the sixteenth-century statue of San Michele, the canvas of SS. Ten thousand martyrs by Martino Russitto from Palermo, the exquisite wooden Crucifix from 1627 (?) And the stucco decoration of the Abbate brothers from Isnello (17th century).
- 4 Church of SS. Annunziata, Via Santissima Annunziata, 51-55. With stuccoes by the Abbate brothers from Isnello, the painting of the Nativity by Giuseppe Salerno (1620), the marble tabernacle of the Holy Cross and the marble Annunciation of the Gagini school.
Isnello Castle
- 5 Church of Maria SS. of the Rosary, Caduti Square, 1. Built on the Piano della Porta, probably transforming the ancient Church of Sant'Elia, the Church of the Rosary with the fifteenth-century Altarpiece attributed to the Flemish Simone de Wobreck. Formerly the church of the Dominican Convent (founded in 1475), when the convent was used as the palace of the Lords of Isnello in the late sixteenth century, the church became its palatine chapel, and the chapel of St. Joseph, in which a triptych was kept , now lost, it was used as a mausoleum.
Astronomical observatory
- 6 Ruins of the Castle of Isnello. Probably from the Byzantine period, the castle is positioned on a ridge overlooking the town. Today owned by the Virga family, it is always accessible by climbing the hill on which it is perched.
- 7 Gal Hassin Astronomical Observatory, Via della Fontana Mitri, ☎ 390921662890, 39 329 8452944, @[email protected].
Tue-Fri 9:00 - 12:00. The particular conditions existing in some parts of the territory, such as the total absence of night light sources, allow a clear view of the night sky in different days of the year. In the nineties the idea of creating an Astronomical Observatory was born. The idea has been collected and carried out in recent years by the municipal administration of Isnello, which manages to obtain substantial funding for the construction of the Observatory. The structure can be visited by appointment and is also open to schools. 
- 8 Trame del Filo Museum. The Museum, established in 2009, collects and exhibits the products of a particular handicraft such as filet and embroidery.
Tue-Fri 9:00 - 12:00. The particular conditions existing in some parts of the territory, such as the total absence of night light sources, allow a clear view of the night sky in different days of the year. In the nineties the idea of creating an Astronomical Observatory was born. The idea has been collected and carried out in recent years by the municipal administration of Isnello, which manages to obtain substantial funding for the construction of the Observatory. The structure can be visited by appointment and is also open to schools.
Events and parties
- St. Joseph. March 19.
- Good Friday.
- Festival of the Frittedda. 29 or 30 April. distribution of the typical dish consisting of spring first fruits: broad beans, peas, artichokes.
- SS. Crucifix. May 1.
- Corpus Christi.
- Feast of the broad beans of S. Pietro. June 29. distribution of boiled broad beans, potatoes and onions.
- Madonna del Carmine. July 16 (or nearest Sunday).
- St. John Bosco. July 31.
- San Nicolò of Bari. 5,6,7 September. patronal feast
- Exaltation of the Holy Cross. September 14.
- Flavors Of Autumn. second weekend of November. tasting of typical products of the Madonie.
- Immaculate. December 8.
- Saint Lucia. 13 December.
- The Luminaria. December 24th. Big bonfire in Piazza Mazzini.
- 'To old Nunna. December 31st. On December 31, the evening of the passage from the old to the new year, the children of the village go from door to door to the sound of big "cowbells", receiving sweets, typical sweets called "Horns" and wishes for the new year.
What to do
- Two depart from Isnello Paths of the Madonie with which you can go trekking.
- 1 Astronomical route, viale Impellitteri. Along the avenue there are several explanatory panels that tell the physical characteristics of the planets.
