a historiated column, found near porta Carlo V. Torre del Sale Named after its previous use as a storehouse for salt, it now houses a mosaic showing a head, thought to be an allegory for Africa, and a bust of an Egyptian woman. Sala di San Giorgio / Sala della Cappella This displays around 2000 bronze figurines, of which 1600 are from the Benedettini collection and the rest from the Biscari collection. They date to the Archaic, Siceliot, Greek, Etruscan-Italic and Hellenistic eras. It also houses a 420 BC marble relief of Demeter and Kore found on Montevergine hill in 1930 and several Greek vases such as the red-figure Crater with Perseus and Medusa from excavations in Camarina. Other rooms These house inscriptions and statues, together forming the permanent "Voci di Pietra" display: First Floor Sala This houses: two tomb reliefs (one for a 16th-century recipient of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the other of a sleeping figure) Byzantine icons a Limoges enamel plaque of the crucifixion a 'smalto' of The Virgin in Glory Portrait of a Gentleman by El Greco (recently restored using funds from OperaTua) a 15th-century painting of Madonna with Saint Lucy and Saint John parts of a polyptych by Antonello de Saliba from Santa Maria di Gesù church: Madonna and Child, St Anthony, St Francis of Assisi, Resurrection St Onufrius by Bernazzano. 17th century chess set from the Benedettini Last Supper by Luis de Morales. Salone dei Parlamenti This mainly houses 17th and 18th century works, including masterpieces by Matthias Stomer from the collection donated to the city by Giovan Battista Finocchiaro in 1826 such as Death of Cato, Crucifixion of St Peter, Suicide of Seneca and Christ Mocked. It also displays works by Pietro Novelli such as St Christopher, St John the Baptist, Madonna and Child with St Louis of France and The Good Samaritan. Also notable are: the only surviving copy of Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, the original of which was stolen by the Mafia and has never been recovered - the copy was produced in 1627 by Don Gaspare Orioles da Paolo Geraci. Christ at the Column by Mario Minniti Penitent Mary Magdalene, school of Giovanni Lanfranco St Luke Painting the Virgin Mary by Mattia Preti St Catherine in Ecstacy, previously attributed to Giulio Cesare Procaccini and later to Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli. Prophet, St Francis with a