Church of the Collegio di Maria SS Addolorata

LOCATION: Piazza S. Giovanni

DATING: XVIII SEC.

SHORT DESCRIPTION Attached to the adjacent convent of the Collegio di Maria, the church was built at the end of the 2th century. at the behest of Felicia Schininà. The façade, on two orders, is in the neoclassical style even if with baroque traces. The interior is oval in shape, on the left side there are 2 qadri of the nineteenth century. by unknown authors represented the Death of Saint Joseph and the circumcision of Jesus. On the right side there are XNUMX paintings by Tommaso Pallaci depicting Saint Giuliana Falconieri and the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple (XIX century). In the central altar another nineteenth-century painting del Pollaci depicting the Pietà.

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