{"id":729,"date":"2025-08-29T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruralsicily.com\/?post_type=esperienze&#038;p=729"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:26:20","slug":"leremo-di-santanna-perla-della-fede-da-riscoprire-tra-storia-e-devozione","status":"publish","type":"esperienze","link":"https:\/\/ruralsicily.com\/en\/esperienze\/turismo-rurale\/leremo-di-santanna-perla-della-fede-da-riscoprire-tra-storia-e-devozione\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hermitage of Saint Anna, a gem of Faith to rediscover, between history and devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\">In 1776, a French traveler, Jean-Marie Roland de la Plati\u00e8re, economist and future Minister of the Interior under Louis XVI, lamented not finding the famous <em>Aci that flowed in front of the hermitage of St. Anna and which some lava, as barbaric as the Cyclops, would have destroyed again<\/em>.<br>\nHe, recalling that he had been <em>kindly hosted<\/em> by the hermits, was enchanted by the stunning panorama he glimpsed from above, immersed in the forest which, according to his description, stretched to the gates of Aci. Roland de la Plati\u00e8re spoke of 15 hermits and described them as vigorous men who plowed the fields, carded, spun and wove wool, worked wood, and used the lathe.<br>\nIn a deed by notary Francesco Rossi of Aci Sant\u2019Antonio and San Filippo, mention is made of a small church dedicated to Saint Anna, located in the Aci San Filippo district. In the Menologio of the hermitage, a manuscript by one of the first hermits\u2014Fra Andrea Musumeci of Acireale\u2014it is written that in 1740, the founder of the hermitage, Fra Rosario Campione, and Father Mariano Patan\u00e8 went to that place where two hermits lived, Fra Mario Finocchiaro and Fra Giuseppe Piscitelli, and there <em>found a small church, poor and lacking everything, covered inside and out with ivy, with one or two rooms poorer than the church itself and in very poor condition<\/em>.<br>\nThanks to the generosity of Canon Mario Finocchiaro, cantor of the Collegiate Church of Aci S. Filippo, who in 1744 had donated a plot of land to Campione, other cells began to rise around that church. There were further donations: even the Princes of Campofiorito, according to Monsignor Salvatore Bella, contributed significantly to the construction of the hermitage.<br>\nThe work, completed in 1756, was carried out by the hermits, who in the meantime had followed Campione, under the guidance of two masons from Aci S. Antonio: Alfio Grasso and his son Concetto, who in 1761 also became a hermit, taking the name Fra Arcangelo.<br>\nThe hermitage of Saint Anna is mentioned by Canon Giuseppe Recupero in his <em>Storia naturale e generale dell\u2019Etna<\/em> (1815): <em>\u201cI cannot help but mention a church that stands above Aci S. Filippo with the title of St. Anna, which, although surrounded by a dense oak forest, is still in a very elevated and pleasant place, because it overlooks the underlying countryside, from where one enjoys a delightful and wide perspective. In 1734, a very devout man, dressed in hermitic attire, called Fra Giuseppe Piscitelli from the city of Cerreto, Kingdom of Naples, retired there. He led an exemplary life there until 1740, when Fra Rosario Campione, then a hermit of the Church of Loreto near the city of Acireale, arrived\u201d<\/em>.<br>\nIn September 1904, an article appeared in the magazine <strong>Emporium<\/strong>, <em>Luoghi romiti: su e gi\u00f9 per il Bosco Etneo<\/em> by Giovanni Patern\u00f2 Castello, in which the Hermitage of Saint Anna was discussed.<br>\n<em>\u201cAnd now we come to the Hermitage of Saint Anna, the quintessential solitary and picturesque place. The road from Valverde leading there is a continuous succession of superb views and marvelous chasms. Holly and oak everywhere, clinging among the gaps of erratic boulders forming the hills on the right and left of the path, if one can call it a road, a steep and rocky trail difficult even for pedestrians, but making the place even more solitary. The position of the hermitage is enchanting. From the terrace of the church one enjoys a splendid horizon! The towns of S. Filippo, Aci-Catena, Aci-Reale, S. Lucia, and Platani lie cheerfully among the dark tropical vegetation like pure white patches of snow. In the distance, Capo Mulini stretches into the sea with the watchful tower of Saint Anna, still ready to signal corsairs. To the left, Taormina, over which rises the cliff of Mola always surrounded by clouds, reflects gently on the waves. Behind, majestic Etna, the mountain of the Cyclopes, dominates with its peak, land, and sea, and serves as the backdrop to the scene below; in front, at noon, the Ionian Sea, the bluest of seas, and the far-off mountains of the Calabrian coast, barely visible as faint clouds between atmospheric layers. A more fitting place for a man to remain ecstatic before the divine work could not have been found by the founder of the hermitage.\u201d<\/em> The Hermitage, recently restored and owned by the Episcopal Curia of Acireale, still stands today as a unique place in all of Sicily and is visitable by appointment or on certain liturgical occasions.<br><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":731,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categoria-esperienza":[22],"class_list":["post-729","esperienze","type-esperienze","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-esperienza-turismo-rurale"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L\u2019Eremo di Sant\u2019Anna, perla della Fede da riscoprire, tra storia e devozione - Rural Sicily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scopri l\u2019Eremo di Sant\u2019Anna, perla della fede da riscoprire, tra storia e devozione\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ruralsicily.com\/en\/esperienze\/turismo-rurale\/leremo-di-santanna-perla-della-fede-da-riscoprire-tra-storia-e-devozione\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"L\u2019Eremo di Sant\u2019Anna, perla della Fede da riscoprire, tra storia e devozione - 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