Santa Barbara Dei Cannonieri, Naples
The church of Saint Barbara of the Gunners or or is a small religious edifice in central Naples, Italy. It is located on Rua Catalana, near the church of San Giacomo degli Italiani, Naples, San Giacomo degli Italiani. The church embedded in the Castel Nuovo of Naples, has also been called ''Santa Barbara'' (or by other sources, San Sebastiano). History This church has hosted many groups over the years. Initially built over the remains of a 14th-century church by commission of the Serguidone family; it was called Santa Maria dell' Incoronatella, (to distinguish it from the larger church of the Santa Maria Incoronata, Naples, Incoronata). By the late 16th century, the church housed the confraternity of the Bianchi, who founded a music conservatory in 1583, called the Conservatory of the Pietà. This group soon moved to a new site on Via Medina. The church became a parish church. In the early 17th century, it housed another confraternity, that of Santa Maria della Pietà, and the ...
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San Giacomo Degli Italiani, Naples
San Giacomo degli Italiani (once the church of San Giacomo dei Pisani) is a church located on Via Depretis in Naples, Italy. First built in 1238, in the Swabia (Bavaria), Swabian era, and given in gratitude to merchants from the Republic of Pisa, who had recently been victorious in a battle against a Saracen navy. At the beginning of the 15th century the church was turned over to the knights of the Order of the Spade (Ordine della Spada). Subsequently circa 1575, the church and the order of the Spada was forbidden to carry out their investitures by the viceroy Iñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza, Íñigo López de Hurtado de Mendoza, and the ceremonies were moved to the San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Naples, San Giacomo degli Spagnoli. In 1775, the church was granted to the ''Complementari'', who restored the church in a Baroque architecture, Baroque style. The present church of San Giacomo was reconstructed by reopening an alternative older portal, surmounted by a coat of arms of a ...
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