Piazza Armerina Enna Scattiola door

PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA SCATTIOLA DOOR

City gates/of Scattiola Via Mazzini, left Joseph's Church right Off SalvatoreDopo that of Castellina, continuing the story of the city gates of yesteryear, going up to Floor Theatines or Patrisanto (today piazza martyrs of Hungary), in the sense from the old town, we meet the Scattiola door.

This was the Church of St. Joseph, on the via Mazzini which before was called, because busy, la Carrera, just where in the photo you see the inscription Wide Salvatore.

Il name comes from the fact that that area, until the ' 50, was full of artisans who they crushed chalk for use in construction, once separated by the sulphur extracted from mines. Crushing was done with some kind of tool, strofinatoio type of wood used to wash your clothes in the tanks, which resembled a lot, obviously at least three times larger, at scattiole that were used during processions of the week Santa.

The scattiola is called in Italian bàttola, rattle, table, wooden board with handle that flustered as big Bell, makes herself up two other tablets huddled at the sides. Not to be confused, however, with the "Tan" that instead of the handle has a handle that is stirred by rotating the wrist. Both are used to proclaim the functions in the churches and during processions during the Holy week that prohibits the use of bells.

This place was very important because, in the building across from the Church of St. Joseph, before in 1605 was once the Saint Augustine Church with the monastery of the Augustinian Fathers beggars had moved twenty years ago from their home in via Madonna della Facciranna al Monte, was already the headquarters of the Hospital of s. Calogero and of Santa Maria degli Angeli, who later returns to Mount.
But that's another story, which will be discussed when I will list all the names that had our hospital over the centuries.