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The church of San Tommaso Apostolo was probably built by the ancestors of the Marcanza family around 1450 and is the only one of the pre-16th century churches in Alcamo that has remained intact. The roof was damaged by rain and was rebuilt in 1928 at the expense of the government and the municipality of Alcamo. Since 1984 it has been the headquarters of the Rotary Club of Alcamo.

The church of San Vidal was founded in 1084 during the reign of Doge Vitale Falier (1084-1095/96). A new reconstruction of the church took place at the end of the 17th century with the intention of transforming the façade into a great monument to Francesco Morosini, doge from 1688 to 1694. The project was entrusted to Antonio Gaspari, who presented a series of designs freely inspired by the Roman church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale. Finally, the heirs of Morosini abandoned the project and, following a change of patron, the new church was built by Andrea Tirali. The church is now closed to worship.

The church of San Vincenzo is a baroque church built by the Theatine Order between 1634 and 1761 on top of an earlier 13th-century church. On 13 May 1944, a bomb destroyed the presbytery and the choir, destroying the apse and the frescoes of the dome (1671) by Sigismondo Caula. The high altar, restored after the bombing, was sculpted by Tommaso Loraghi.

The church of San Vio was a 10th-century church. Closed in 1808, the church was demolished in 1813 and a small chapel was erected in its place on the old façade, now deconsecrated and used as a private house.

The church of San Zeno probably dates from the 11th century as an abbey church, but it was not completed until the 15th century. The interior retains traces of precious medieval murals.

The church of San Zenone was built on a project by Paolo Ogna of Rezzato in baroque style in 1868 to replace the old place of worship which had been destroyed, many of his works were recovered and placed in the new church. The new road was built in 1870 and consequently, the staircase divided into two ramps and the new façade of the church were built.

The church of Sant'Agata dei Goti was founded in the 5th century in Rome by the Romanized Germanic general Flavius Ricimer. It is the only example of an Arian place of worship in the Roman Gothic community that has survived into the present day. The beautiful votive mosaic dating from Ricimer was lost when the church fell into ruin in the 16th century. The present Sant'Agata dei Goti, under Villa Aldobrandini, is a reconstruction of 1633 with a new façade erected in 1729.

Sant'Agata in Trastevere was built in 1710-11 on an ancient medieval church first mentioned in 1121 in a bull of Pope Calixtus II. In 1575, Pope Gregory XIII granted the church to the Archconfraternity of Christian Doctrine (Agatisti), which later joined the Congregation of Doctrinarians in the 18th century. In 1710-1711, under the pontificate of Clement XI, the church was completely rebuilt by Giacomo Recalcati.

The church of Sant'Agnese in Agone was built on the spot where, according to tradition, Agnes of Rome, exposed naked to the public, was miraculously covered by her hair. After the oratory, built in the 7th century, the church was built over it in baroque style by the architects Girolamo and Carlo Rainaldi in 1652 at the request of Pope Innocent X and the noble family of Pamphili. The church was completed between 1653 and 1657 by Francesco Borromini. He designed the concave façade of the church and topped it with a dome and two campaniles.

The church of Sant'Agnese was founded between the 10th and 11th centuries. In the following centuries, several architectural interventions took place, especially in the Gothic and Baroque periods. Jacopo de' Barbari's plan of 1500 also shows the presence of a Gothic portico in front of the façade, which has now disappeared. In 1810, the church was closed to worship as a result of Napoleonic decrees and much of the interior decoration was lost. The church was again used for worship in the mid-19th century after restoration work that left little of the original structure.