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Pio Monte della Misericordia

  • Visit: about 1 h 50 min
Pio Monte della Misericordia
Photo: IlSistemone · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

The charitable institution founded in 1602, where you can admire Caravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy.

The Pio Monte della Misericordia was founded at the beginning of the 17th century by a group of Neapolitan nobles to help those in need, and it still carries out charitable work today.Above the high altar of the church hangs Caravaggio's masterpiece, the Seven Works of Mercy, painted in Naples in 1607. On the upper floor the picture gallery holds paintings of the Neapolitan school.

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