Santa Maria del Pianto is a church in

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. It was built in 1657 to commemorate the victims of the 1656 plague, buried in the nearby Grotta degli Sportiglioni. Its site was the original core of the Cemetery of Poggioreale on via vicinale di Santa Maria del Pianto. It was designed by Francesco Antonio PicchiattiFabio Mangone (ed), ''Cimiteri Napoletani'', Storia, Arte e Cultura, Massa Editore, Napoli, 2004.

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Maria del Pianto 1657 establishments in Italy {{Italy-RC-church-stub