Named after Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, the church is located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Dated to the 19th century, the building probably stands on an earlier structure, which only careful investigations could unearth. The reference model followed in the building of the facade is clearly that of the local Carmel church’s Baroque style, discernible in the division into two orders, here more slender, of which the lower one is characterized by a compact red trachyte surface interrupted in the center by the elegant entrance portal flanked by light pilasters and surmounted by a broken tympanum enclosing the image of the Madonna. In contrast, the upper order has a plastered surface punctuated in three mirrors by four pilasters. In the middle one has been located since 1875 the city’s large public clock, double-sided and equipped with modern technology; the whole is crowned by a frontispiece, with alternating concave and convex lines, surmounted by a slender bell structure. The richness of the exterior decoration is matched by a sober interior, divided into a small rectangular room flanked by niches in simple stucco. Having undergone recent restoration, it is possible to admire it in its new artistic guise.
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