Location: Enna
Top Things to do in Enna
Countries
10 Churches & Cathedrals in Enna That You Shouldn't Miss
Enna [ˈɛnna] listen (help·info) (Sicilian: Castrugiuvanni; Greek: Ἔννα; Latin: Henna and less frequently Haenna) is a city and comune located roughly at the center of Sicily, southern Italy, in the province of Enna, towering above the surrounding countryside. It has earned the nicknames belvedere (panoramic viewpoint) and ombelico (navel) of Sicily.
Restaurants in Enna
1. Santuario del SS. Crocifisso di Papardura
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 17 reviews
Legend has it that in 1600, some pious women dreamed that in the highest part of the source Papardura there was depicted the image of Jesus crucified and that several people who had prayed the place had been miraculously. in 1696 with the contributions of a deputation of prosecutors called the "Massari", a bridge was built for the edification of the church, with incorporation of the cave in which part and represented the Holy Cross. It is said that by Christmas of 1742, crops were so scarce that there was considerable famine. on that occasion in 1746, went to the Shrine hundreds of people, arrived on the scene, the pastor of the Church, announced that prosecutors of the Church, in honor of Jesus Crucified, every year, for the party have distributed small "collorelle" ( CUDDUREDDE), delta-shaped Greek (Holy Cross), made up of mixture of flour and water. That year the earth gave such an abundance of grain. And so the Cudduredde sanctioned devotion since then and to this day it is practiced in the feast of the crucifix as an act of thanksgiving for the end of the terrible famine.
2. Chiesa di Santa Chiara
3. Chiesa San Michele Arcangelo
4. Chiesa San Francesco D’Assisi dei Conventuali
5. Chiesa San Cataldo
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1 reviews
6. Chiesa S. Giuseppe
7. Chiesa delle Anime Sante
8. Chiesa di San Marco Monastero delle Carmelitane Scalze
9. Chiesa S. Fancesco di Paola
10. Chiesa di San Sebastiano
TAGS
