The present cathedral of Caltanissetta was built between 1570 and 1622. Between 1718 and 1720 the Flemish painter Guglielmo Borremans, together with his son Luigi, frescoed the vault and the nave and painted the main altarpiece, representing the Immaculate Conception.
The church of San Pancrazio, or Mother Church, was built between the first half of the 18th century and 1765. In 1908, the present facade, designed in 1901 by Ernesto Basile, was erected, characterising the panorama of the town with its white and imposing mass.
Work on the construction of the church of San Domenico began in 1609 and was completed in 1612. The district of San Domenico, a significant example of Sicilian Baroque urban planning, with straight, orthogonal streets, is marked by the foundation of the Dominican convent, with the adjoining church of San Domenico. Due to the collapse of the ceiling in 1962, the frescoes of the vault by Provenzani were lost.
The Cathedral of Piazza Armerina was built at the beginning of the 17th century, but it retains the Catalan Gothic bell tower of an older building dating from the 15th century. The 18th-century portal features stylistic elements of Sicilian Baroque.
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