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The chiesa di San Salvatore di Ognissanti or more simply chiesa di Ognissanti (Italian: [ˈkjɛːza di oɲɲisˈsanti]; "All-Saints Church"), is a Franciscan church located on the piazza of the same name in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. Founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, the church was dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown.
It was c...
Chiesa di San Carlo was build between 1612 and 1617 and probably rebuild in the middle of the eighteenth century. Up until recently the monastery was hoe to a community of cloister nuns, well know for their typical pastries call "Abbey sewats".
The church of San Falcione is a rock church located in Matera.
It is located in the area in front of the city, on the Murgia esplanade. Its construction dates back to the 9th century, with the name also reported as San Felicione, Cassione, Cassone, Cascione or Canione.
From an architectural point of view, the various spaces have been dug into the calcarenite. It in...
The church of San Giovanni in Monterrone, founded between the 9th and 10th centuries, forms an integral part of the complex of the Church of Santa Maria di Idris near Sasso Caveoso.
Catholic church in Erice, Italy. Dedicated to Saint Julian, martyr in 254 AD. It was so important that Mount Erice until 1934 was called Mount San Giuliano. One of the most ancient Catholic places of worship in Erice, built on top of the highest part of the inhabited nucleus, had territorial jurisdiction over one of the most important districts of the city, called pre...
The Church of Saint Catherine (Chiesa di Santa Caterinaor simplySanta Caterina) is a church in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is located in the heart of the historic centre, between Piazza Bellini and Piazza Pretoria, in the same area of other well-known architectural landmarks like the churches of Martorana and San Cataldo (both of them are World Heritage Sites)...
Santa Felicita (Church of St Felicity) is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, probably the oldest in the city after San Lorenzo. In the 2nd century, Syrian Greek merchants settled in the area south of the Arno and are thought to have brought Christianity to the region. The first church on the site was probably built in the late 4th century o...
Chiesa di Sant'Agnese is a small church was built from 1306 at the behest of the abbess Poliziana Agnese, outside the walls near the Porta al Prato, and originally with the façade facing west, towards the current Via Calamandrei. The land had been purchased by the Municipality for 1200 florins. The ancient sandstone portal, buffered, was accidentally found in 1...
Santa Lucia alle Malve is a rock church located near the Sasso Caveoso of Matera, annexed to a Benedictine female monastery dating back to the 11th century.
Initially the church was dedicated to Saint Agatha, and was then dedicated to Saint Lucia between 1217 and 1267. After the transfer of the nuns in 1525 first to the monastery of Santa Lucia alla Civita and then t...
The rock church of Santa Maria de Armenis is a place of worship located within the Sassi of Matera. There is documentary evidence of the church as early as 1093, the year in which Pope Urban II stayed in Matera for several months, and during his stay he granted indulgences to the faithful visiting the church of Santa Maria de Armenis[1]. It is part of an ancient Bened...
The church of Santa Maria dei Servi is a fourteenth-century church located in Montepulciano.
It presents the gabled façade, with regular travertine ashlars arranged "a filaretto" and enriched by a splayed portal, with a pointed arch surmounted by a cusp. The sloping roofs are adorned with a row of trilobate hanging arches, resting on corbels.
The bell tower...
The church of Santa Maria di Idris, also known as "Santa Maria de Idris" or "Madonna de Idris", is located in Matera, within the Sassi. It is a rupestrian church, meaning it was dug into the rock.
It is located in the upper part of Monterrone, a large limestone cliff that rises in the middle of the Sasso Caveoso; it is reached via a flight of steps near the rock chur...
The Chiesa di Santa Sofia (Santa Sofia Church) is located in the Piazza of Anacapri, on the island of Capri, Italy. It dates to 1596 when it replaced Chiesa di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli as the parish church. Some of the building materials and fittings, such as the sacristy and oratorio, were originally in the Chiesa di San Carlo. The church chapels are dedicated t...