Chiesa di Santa Maria di Mili San Pietro
It is one of the oldest examples of religious Arab-Norman architecture in Sicily. Church, with the adjoining former Monastery, is situated on the left bank of Mili rivre. Built around 1090 by Count Roger de Hauteville, Church probably stands on the site of an earlier monastery from the Byzantine period. Basilian Monastery, the most important of the Nedieval Sicily, experienced periods of splendor and decadence alternated until 1542, the year of the sale by Charles V to the Great Hospital of Messina. The most remarkable part is the apse of the Church, distinguished by the three hemispherical domes of clear Islamic style and the central apse in Romanesque style. Following the restoration after the earthquake, the Church was stripped inside the stucco, plaster and altars.
