page_title: Alcamo
section_title: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: Alcamo / Main sights / Religious buildings / 18th century
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Chiesa della SS Trinità ad Alcamo
context_page_description: Alcamo is the fourth-largest town in the province of Trapani in Sicily, with a population of 45,374 inhabitants. It is on the borderline with the Metropolitan City of Palermo at a distance of about 50 kilometres from Palermo and Trapani.
  Nowadays the town territory includes an area of 130.79 square kilometres and is the second municipality as for population density in the province of Trapani, after Erice.
  Alcamo is bounded by the Tyrrhenian Sea on the north, Balestrate and Partinico on the east, Camporeale on the south and Calatafimi-Segesta and Castellammare del Golfo on the west. Its most important hamlet is Alcamo Marina at about 6 kilometres from the town centre.
  Together with other municipalities it takes part in the Associazione Città del Vino, the movement Patto dei Sindaci, Progetto Città dei Bambini, Rete dei Comuni Solidali and Patto Territoriale Golfo di Castellammare.
context_section_description: Saints Cosma and Damiano's Church (Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano or Santa Chiara): built in 1500 and rebuilt between 1721 and 1725). It has a baroque style and inside it there are two sculptures by Serpotta.
  Badia Nuova or (Monastero di San Francesco di Paola'), not to be confused with the homonymous Church) was built in 1531, demolished in 1699 and rebuilt in the first half of the 18th century. There are a picture by Pietro Novelli and some allegorical representations by Giacomo Serpotta.
  Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Chiesa della Santissima Trinità): 1746–1757
  Ex Church of Ecce Homo (Ex Chiesa dell'Ecce Homo, 1750)
  Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (Chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario): built in 1660 and reconstructed in 1761.
caption: The façade of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Alcamo.
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