Chiesa di Santa Maria del Priorato
Address
Contacts
Opening times
Open with permission from the Order of the Knights of Malta.
Send an email requesting to book a visit to the "Magistral Villa of the Sovereign Order of Malta" visitorscentre@orderofmalta.int
Groups from 10 to 25 people
Entrance fee € 5,00 per person +
Compulsory guide in Italian € 80,00 - in foreign languages € 100,00.
Description
The church too belongs to the Ordine Sovrano di Malta and was completely remodeled and decorated by Gian Battista Piranesi in 1765, who turned it into one of the most beautiful neoclassical creations, so original on the whole and in the decorative particulars. The façade has a single order of fluted pilaster strips, with rich capitols and a portal surmounted by an oculus and a triangular tympanum. The interior, very evocative and with a Latin cross with side niches and apse, is roofed by a vault richly decorated by stuccoes.