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The church was founded in 1342 under the patronage of Queen Sancha of Aragon. The queen and her husband were very devout; and Sancha herself entered a monastery of the Poor Clares after her husband's death. The church and attached buildings served as a Madgalen asylum, meant to shelter donne di mondo convertite (prostitutes).
San Giorgio dei Genovesi (or San Giorgio alla Commedia Vecchia) is a church on Via Medina in the Center of Naples, Italy.It is adjacent and just north of the Church of the Santa Maria Incoronata, two doors south from the Palazzo d’Aquino di Caramanico, and across the street from the Church of the Pietà dei Turchini.
Interior Apse with polychrome marblesr. Santa Maria del Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) is a church in Naples, Italy.It is at one end of Piazza Mercato (Market Square), the centre of civic life in Naples for many centuries until it was cut off from the rest of the city by urban renewal in 1900.
Sant'Antonio Abate is an ancient church of Naples, located at the beginning of the village of the same name: Borgo Sant'Antonio Abate. [1]Legend has it that the church, placed at the origin of the village of the same name, was founded at the behest of Queen Joanna I of Anjou, but a diploma of King Robert of Anjou, shows that, as early as March 1313, there were church and hospital and that in ...
Santa Teresa degli Scalzi (previously known as the church of Santa Teresa al Museo, or of Santa Teresa agli studi or della Madre di Dio) is a church in Naples, Italy, located in via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, a wide street opened during 1806–1810, to connect the historic center of Naples to the zone of Capodimonte.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naples Interior with altar Chiesa di Santa Maria in Portico is a late-baroque church in the city center of Naples placed at the end of its homonymous street, just off the seaside promenade of the Riviera di Chiaia .
Facade. San Pietro in Vinculis is a deconsecrated Roman Catholic church in Naples.It is sited in the historic city centre on via Sedile di Porto, near via Mezzocannone. It was built in the 15th century to plans by Angelo Aniello Fiore, though its present appearance reflects its extension in the 16th century by professor Giovanni Lucio Scoppa to house a new school for poor children.
Santa Maria della Catena was a parish church up to half of the 18th century, today is a rectory for the nearby church of Santa Lucia a Mare 40°49′54″N 14°14′55″E / 40.831560°N 14.248585°E / 40.831560; 14.