The patron of Sutera is Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on 16 July, in the church of Maria Santissima del Carmelo, built in 1934 over an earlier structure from 1185, originally the first church of the Annunziata, with the adjoining convent of the Jerosolymitan Carmelite friars from 1664: inside it preserves a 16th-century marble holy water font and, in the right nave, some burials of the Salamone family, as well as the marble statue of the Madonna del Soccorso, attributed to Bartolomeo Berrettari and dated 1503, commissioned by Francesco Salamone, the knight who returned victorious from Barletta.
Francesco Salamone was indeed one of the thirteen Italian knights of the famous Challenge of Barletta, on 13 February 1503: the town still preserves the ruins of the Palazzo Salamone, his birthplace, of which the perimeter walls and part of the interior ones remain, with a plaque from 1903 commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the battle. The initial core of the town of Sutera, at the foot of the mountain, arose during Arab rule in the district still called Rabato today, which retains its typically Arab urban layout. In 1987 the American director Michael Cimino filmed part of the movie Il Siciliano in Sutera, about the story of the bandit Salvatore Giuliano.
