Santa Sofia was a church on via Santa Sofia in the city of

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, Italy, now deconsecrated. It was founded around 308 by

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, though the present church was built in 1487 to house a congregation which worked to bury the poor. It has a 1754

maiolica Maiolica is tin-glazed pottery decorated in colours on a white background. Italian maiolica dating from the Renaissance period is the most renowned. When depicting historical and mythical scenes, these works were known as ''istoriato'' wares ...

pavement and its facade has two doors. Francesco Domenico Moccia e Dante Caporali, ''NapoliGuida-Tra Luoghi e Monumenti della città storica'', Clean, 2001. It also contained paintings by

Fabrizio Santafede Fabrizio Santafede or Fabrizio Santaféde (c. 1560–1623/28) was an Italian painter known for his altarpieces. He painted in a style that rejected the Mannerism popular in the Naples of his time and evident in the works of Francesco Curia. Lif ...

and Marco Pino, but these were removed after the 1980 earthquake.

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Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...