Pietra Barocchina Sandstone Balustrade

Barocchina The stone is a sedimentary rock that had spread after the great earthquake that struck the south-eastern Sicily in 1693. In Hyblaean this material became the protagonist of the reconstruction featuring with its yellow-golden urbanism and architecture of the city rebuilt.
The easy processability and good qualities and physico-mechanical properties for their use disparate in time: from the construction of load-bearing elements such as exposed masonry, arches, piers, sometimes, but mostly masks capitals, balustrades, fountains.