Madonna Della Scala, Pesaro
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The Madonna Del Porto, also known as the Madonna della Scala, is a Neoclassic-style,
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church located in Pesaro, region of Marche, Italy. The church was designed in 1822 by Pietro Togni. It is located in a small piazza just outside the walls of the town, leading to the Port. In front there is a small fountain designed by Giovanni Francesco Buonamici of Rimini. The first altar once held a ''Sant'Ubaldo'' by
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, now a ''St Andrew, St Peter, and the fisherman with Christ'' by an unknown painter; and the second altar, a ''Visitation'' by Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi. The facade has four columns with corinthian capitals, and in the upper portion, a statue of the ''Virgin and Child with a Scala Coeli and Angels''.Tourism office of Pesaro and Urbino.


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