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Church of Santa Maria della Carità

  • Visit: about 20 min
Church of Santa Maria della Carità
Photo: Baku · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

"La Giorgia" on piazza Carità, a 16th-century church where the composer Domenico Scarlatti was baptised in 1685.

Overlooking piazza Carità, along via Toledo, Santa Maria della Carità is called "la Giorgia" by Neapolitans. It was founded in the 16th century, perhaps after the plague of 1550, and in the 17th century passed to a congregation of nobles.Here, on 1 November 1685, Domenico Scarlatti was baptised, son of the composer Alessandro and future great harpsichordist: the baptismal record is still kept in the diocesan archive. A stop for music lovers.

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