Mirabella Imbaccari (Mirabbedda in Sicilian) is a town and “comune “in the province of Catania in the Italian region of southern Italy. Sicily. It is 16 km from Caltagirone, 14 from Piazza Armerina, 29 from Gela, 46 from Enna and 75 from Catania and from Ragusa.

Located at the foot of the Erei Mountains, Mirabella Imbaccari stands out for its rich production of grapes, citrus fruits, olives, almonds and hazelnuts. Characteristic are the embroidery and the tombolo (particular type of lace worked with needles) of the local craftsmanship that are exhibited at the Mostra del Tombolo, in recent renovation.

The central square of the village is dominated by the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Its prospectus, with three architectural orders, in Baroque-Sicilian style, outlined by large pilasters with bases and capitals, is adorned with a large and artistic portal with frieze and gable, with a window with stone statue of the Madonna and Child, of a large civic clock, a three-hole bell tower, with round arches, and a terminal gable with cross and acroters.

The presence (above the old sacristy) of a painting by the Mirabellese artist Vincenzo Di Fazio (1884-1968) depicting the Ascension.The Church is was renovated in 2006. Smaller, but of great interest is the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was provisionally obtained, in December 1908, from the warehouses of the Politini family after a failed attempt to complete in 1904 the construction of a second church in Mirabella, whose foundation stone was laid by Msgr. Damaso Pio De Bono (1850-1927).

The new construction had become necessary after the earthquake on 8 December of that same year, which had made the dangerous mother church unusable. The promoter of the new construction was the parish priest Rosario Giustolisi (1882-1935). The interior, with three naves, is decorated with a large wooden Crucifix by Vincenzo Moroder from 1953, of the original marble high altar, adorned with the pure wooden statue of the Sacred Heart of Luigi Santifaller, of the marble altar of the Alberghina brothers, two side altars with the wooden statue of St. Anthony of Santifaller himself, and with the other in papier-mache of Our Lady of Lourdes; and, moreover, of a canvas with angels, bearing symbols of passion, of a not better identified Albino, the baptismal font of Carrara marble of 1940 and the portal of walnut Salvatore Massari of 1961.