The church of the Santissima Trinità alla Cesarea (or Santa Maria del Rimedio a Salvator Rosa) is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

-style church, located in Piazetta Trinità alla Cesarea, in central

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, Italy.

History

The church and the convent were built by friars for the Redemption of Captives of the

Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy The Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives ( la, Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum, abbreviated O. de M.), also known as the Mercedarians, is a Catholic mendicant order es ...

. They sited it at the site by buying in the 17th century the palace of the Belmosto brothers. In this era, noble families were abandoning the low-lying neighborhoods of Naples for higher ground. The monastery later passed on to the

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, giving its present name. In 1809, the monastery was suppressed. The

1980 Irpinia earthquake The 1980 Irpinia earthquake ( it, Terremoto dell'Irpinia) took place in Italy on 23 November 1980, with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). It left at least 2,483 people dead, at least 7,700 injured, an ...

, caused the church to be closed. Only in 2008 was the ceiling resealed. The facade is in a dilapidated state. The interior has a frescoed ceiling.

Bibliography

* C. Celano, G.B. Chiarini, ''Notizie del bello, dell'antico e del curioso della Città di Napoli'', Vol. VII, Naples, 1856–1860. * G.A. Galante, ''Guida Sacra della Città di Napoli'', Naples, 1872.

References

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