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Crossing the Rione del Carmine, suggestive frame of evident historical and artistic legacies of splendid manufacture, being able to observe a microcosm moulded in the stucco that surprises and seduces, we will enter the serpentine Oratory of the Carminello. The Oratory of Carminello was built at the end of the '500 with aristocratic financing and has been for centuries an oratory of the Carmelites, who gathered there for prayers. Until a century ago it was used as a cemetery, as can be seen from the crypt below, for the exclusive use of the brotherhood. It contains some stuccoes by the great Giacomo Serpotta ("The Nativity" and "The Rest in Egypt") as well as stuccoes by Giovanni Serpotta. Externally, the compact size of the oratory and the simplicity of the tufa stone facade, in which only the sober frames of the windows and the portal emerge, do not reveal the decorative richness of the interior.
