Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas

Known for being the Vincenzo Bellini's birthplace and to accommodate the Museum dedicated to him, it was built in the early eighteenth century on the ruins of a more ancient building of the Gravina Cruyllas, noble family of the Princes of Palagonia. The current plant, resting partly on the walls of the Roman Theatre and thoroughly altered by successive accretions building, was designed by an unknown architect. Decorations volute, bosses and grotesque of the portal and the shelves of the grandstand above relate to the first decades of the eighteenth century, while the windows of the main floor are related to Francesco Battaglia. The main staircase, now side, retains only part of the monumentality and the original functionality. Many are the changes that the building has undergone over time: the third floor was added in the late nineteenth century and completed only after 1924. It has recently undergone renovation to be brought more to the interior of the home Bellini Civic and Emilio Greco Museums.