A document of the bishop of Syracuse certifies its existence on site in 1396, but the date of its first construction is to be placed from 1301 to 1350 approximately, as attested by the seventeenth-century historian Placido Carafa. Erected as a college with the papal bull of Clement VIII of 2 January 1597, two centuries later by Royal Decree of Charles III of Bourbon (1797), and following a centuries-old dispute, it was declared the mother church like St. George, the "official church" "of the counts of Modica.
Damaged by the passing of the centuries and by the frequent earthquakes in this area at high seismic risk, it was rebuilt several times, but some internal elements were spared from collapses; there is still a side chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, which bears the date of 1620 engraved on the dome, and which also resisted the earthquake of 1693. The reconstruction works were directed by two local master builders, Rosario Boscarino from Modica and Mario Spada from Ragusa. Wikipedia
Architectural style Sicilian Baroque, Neoclassical
Construction began 1697
Completion 1780
Cathedral of San Pietro Apostolo
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