Top of the World
It stands on a semicircular, impervious flight of steps, in a square plaza with the streets intersecting at the place once marked by the column with the cross. It was inaugurated on June 12, 1659.
The monastery has a simple appearance with unadorned windows. The inner courtyard, however, is overlooked by windows decorated in the Baroque style. Inside, the parlor has barrel vaults from which there is access to a garden full of trees in which a sculpture of the Madonna with St. Benedict is arranged. The nuns guard, in addition, Our Lady of the Rosy Dove. Even today it is one of the few cloistered monasteries in Sicily, access to which is forbidden to almost anyone.
