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Church of the Sacro Cuore e Santa Rita alla Salute

  • Visit: about 20 min
Church of the Sacro Cuore e Santa Rita alla Salute
Photo: Baku · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

Late 18th-century church at the top of a three-flight staircase from via Imbriani, linked to an old girls' boarding school.

From via Imbriani, in the Avvocata district, a theatrical three-flight staircase climbs to the church of the Sacro Cuore e Santa Rita alla Salute. The staircase already appears in the famous map by the Duke of Noja, around 1775.A few years later, thanks to Vincenzo De Majo, a girls' boarding school dedicated to the Sacred Heart was founded here; the church at the top of the steps was founded in the early 1790s. Today it is much visited for its devotion to Saint Rita.

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