Basilica Santa Caterina, Minor basilica in Pedara, Italy.

Basilica Santa Caterina is a church with three naves supported by round arches, featuring a facade of contrasting dark gray lava stone and light gray plaster elements. The 50-meter bell tower beside the building rises prominently and is visible from many spots around town.

The first parish church, dedicated to the Annunziata, was requested from Bishop Simone del Pozzo in 1388. After eruptions and earthquakes, including those of 1408, 1444, 1536 and 1537, residents moved south and began a church dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria in 1547, completed in 1563. Don Diego Pappalardo had it rebuilt from 1682, opened for worship in 1687 and finished in 1691, but the earthquake of 11 January 1693 destroyed it. Rebuilding under master mason Angelo Belfiore was completed in 1705.

The church is dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and the mother church of Pedara was canonically erected as a parish on 21 June 1926 by Cardinal Giuseppe Francica Nava. The building was solemnly consecrated and dedicated to the saint on 25 November 1976 by Archbishop Domenico Picchinenna. The main altar of the earlier 1563 church was dedicated to the Annunziata, showing the town's lasting Marian devotion.

Access is through a wide churchyard with steps that are easy to spot. The bell tower serves visitors as a visual reference point for finding the building within town.

The 1547 church had a coffered ceiling of beech wood with fir beams, painted with Old Testament scenes and the twelve Apostles. Its Romanesque main portal and the rose window above it survive: the portal now stands on the north wall, the rose window at the base of the bell tower.