Spasimo - Chiesa Santa Maria dello Spasimo

Palermo

Construction work began in 1509, but the church was never built due to the Turkish threat that necessitated the construction of a defensive bastion bastion of agony. Used as a theater in the first hospital and later, in the eighteenth century affected the collapse of the roof of the nave of the church will not be rebuilt. Striking in the sixteenth century cloister probably also incomplete. Today it hosts musical and theatrical performances.