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Church of Santa Maria Antesaecula

  • Visit: about 20 min
  • 234 m
Church of Santa Maria Antesaecula
Photo: Baku · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized

Deconsecrated church in the Sanità district built after 1622, on a Greek-cross plan with a fine recessed façade.

In the Sanità district, on the street of the same name, Santa Maria Antesaecula is a church now deconsecrated but still fascinating. It was born when, in 1622, the girls' school of Santa Maria a Sicola was moved here from the Vicaria Vecchia area.The name "Sicola" turned into Antesaecula, echoing a biblical passage: "before the ages I was created". Let's pause before the façade, set back from the street, with its piperno doorway: it is the finest feature of the Greek-cross building.

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