Category Archives: Churches

The current building is the result of a radical eighteenth-century renovation of an older church of which we have news from 1236, annexed to the Priory of Santa Luca.

The Church of San Marco, built on the XII the century by the Benedictine monks of San Salvatore al Monte Amiata, site owners, still retains its charming medieval appearance in the simplicity of a small rural building with a single nave.

The twelfth-century church stands on the hill of the Cathedral and is believed to have been the first inhabited nucleus of the city of Viterbo, with people living there since Etruscan times.

It was built in 1510 by the will of the protonotary of Leo X Giovanni Battista Almadiani, moved by the desire to allocate a convent and a church to the order of the Carmelites in his city. The realization of this project was entrusted to the architect Bernardino da Viterbo who, in what later became one of the most typical representations of Viterbo’s Renaissance architecture.

This church was built at the head of Piazza del Mercato which was the centre of town and social life in Viterbo for centuries and is mentioned in public documents as far back as 1080. In the XIII century, following the bloody murder of Henry of Cornwall, the church went through a period of decline and became a secondary parish, positioned as it was between the St. Lorenzo Cathedral and the St. Maria Nuova collegiate.

The construction of the church began in 1237 on the area of Sant’Angelo in Spatha’s parish church donated to the Franciscans by Gregory IX in 1236. The Lombard fort called the Castle of Sonza had originally stood on this site at the beginning of the millennium.

The history of the church of S. Carlo is closely linked to that of S. Nicola and S. Andrea, which are also located in the Piano Scarano district. The first mention of the church dates back to 1122, when it is mentioned in a document of the Liber clavium, with the name of S. Niccolò del Piano. Subsequently, the name appears in other documents, first of all the papal bull issued by Urban IV in 1262.

Author: Consulenza scientifica Dr.sa Simona Gigliotti Location: VIA MAZZINI, 8 Date: Go to the DescriprionVirtual Tour Virtual Tour Close The Churc of Saint Angelo in Spatha took its name from the Spatha family which had its patronage in 1045 through their ancestor Giovanni.; the first mention of it dates back to the XI century when,…

The church is known by the people of Viterbo as the Sanctuary of the Madonna Liberatrice because it is linked to the veneration of the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary which is attributed to Gregorio and Donato d’Arezzo. This miraculous event came about on the 28th May, 1320.

This building and its foundation was originally dedicated to Saint. Macario, but according to hearsay and without documentation to prove otherwise, it was founded by regular Premonstratensian monks in XIII century.