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CHURCH SANTA MARIA DELLA PIETÀ PALERMO

The Church of Santa Maria della Pietà is a Baroque place of Catholic worship of Palermo, located in via Torremuzza twin Kalsa district, not far from the Church of Santa Teresa alla Kalsa, both designed by architect Giacomo Amato.
Il church yard, wanted by the Dominican nuns of seclusion, opens in 1678 and quits already in 1684. Seventeenth-century masterpiece, the façade has two orders of columns fully free interspersed by several statues, representing the Saints or Beati Dominicans compositional scheme certainly influenced by former Church of Jesus.
The vault was decorated with stuccoes by James, Joseph and Procopio Serpotta.
Designer of prospectus and rework the Interior is the religious of the order of the Baroque masterpiece author Paolo Amato flowered Cruciferous. source wiki