Santa Maria in Torricella is a Roman Catholic church, located in Piacenza, Italy. The church was built in 1514 to house an icon of the Virgin in a chapel at the site. This church was used to provide religious consolation to those condemned to death (the scaffold was near the square). This service was provided by the Capuchins order, established in the church by Bishop Burali to take the role from the Confraternity of San Giovanni. The first church was enlarged in the mid-seventeenth century. The church has a canvas of a ''Beato

Paolo Burali Paolo Burali d'Arezzo (1511 – 17 June 1578) was an Italian priest of the Theatine Order, a bishop, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. His legal skills made him a prominent figure in the law courts of Naples, and then in the councils of ...

'' by Gaspare Landi, a ''Crucifixon'' by Robert de Longe, and a '' St Disma'' by

Giuseppe Gherardi Giuseppe Gherardi ( Piacenza, 1756 - Piacenza, 7 November 1828) was an Italian painter, active in the Neoclassic style. Biography He painted a ''San Disma'' for the church of the Santa Maria in Torricella in Piacenza, a canvas that stood alongs ...

.Comune of Piacenza
, entry on church.

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