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The Church of Santa Maria of the Carbonara is situated on the ancient road named Via S. Antonio (located under the bridge of the Cathedral). The church dates back to the 12th century, unfortunately it has lost most of the decorative elements of its time. During the Middle Ages, the church was the headquarter of the Templars, and in the XVI century was entrusted to the Rodi’s Knights (who later became the knights of Malta). The church was restored in 1964 by the sovereign military order of Malta.

It was constructed in the place that hosted a convent of nuns of the tertiary order during the Middle Ages and in 1502, it was entitled to Santa Maria della Pace. Originally the structure was opened through Via del Bottalone. The actual building in the Piazza Luigi Concetti, by the wishes of cardinal Brancacci, was only built in 1667, in the area previously occupied by the church of Santa Nicola dei Vascellari.

It was built to make a vow after the plague of 1493 or 1501, at the expense, as evidenced by the inscription on the pavement, of Paolo Mazzatosta and of tanner Martino grain: PAULU MAZZATOSTA- MARTINU CONSIATOR DE GRANO F. and is painted by Paolo Nicolai as indicated in the inscription: “(PAU)LUS (NI)COLAI PINSIT”.

The church of San Giovanni Decollato has a Latin cross structure, with two entrances, one on Via del Lazzaretto and the other on Via S. Giovanni Decollato, an essential street of communication since 16th Century, which connected Porta Faul to the area of San Faustino.

The foundation of the church of S. Ignazio was made in 1671 to the work of the Bussi family in favor of the società di Gesù, guaranteed in wall of counter with a marble inscription.

The foundation of the Dominican complext of Santa Maria in Gradi is remembered for the first time in a document in 1228 in which a donation to the monks living there for the constructione ecclesiae (construction of the church) is cited. In 1224 a bull of the Pope Innocenzo IV ratified the construction of the whole complex for wishes of the Cardinal Raniero Capocci. Since 2000 tn the complex of Santa Maria in Gradi is located the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, whit he Rector’s Office and the Administrative Offices, and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Faculty too.

The church, which today retains little of its original appearance, is one of the oldest monuments still preserved in the city. It is mentioned for the first time in an act of 1045, which described it runned by the monks of Farfa and subjected to the jurisdiction of the Abbey of S. Martino al Cimino.

Author: Consulenza scientifica Dr.sa Simona Gigliotti Location: LARGO FACCHINI DI SANTA ROSA Date: 1850 Go to the DescriprionVirtual Tour Virtual Tour Close The construction goes up to the middle of the century last (1850) from initiatives of the Cardinal Gaspare Bernardo Pianetti, Bishop of Viterbo, who order the reconstruction of the church, on the structure…

The origins regarding the construction of the church of Santa Maria Nova date back to the XI century when a priest Biterbo with his brother Leone, his mother Sassa and Carabona, Leone’s wife, donate the church to the Bishop Giselberto of Tuscania. The act is reported on a marble stone inside the church.

The construction of the church began in 1514 in the place where formerly stood an ancient church built on the ruins of an old fortress made in 1077 by Enrico IV. Pinzi, a famous Viterbo historian, attributed the design of the project to the architect Battista di Giuliano da Cortona and its implementation to Ambrogio di Bartolomeo di Milano. The work, completed in 1521, was followed by the construction of the dome, designed by Francesco Monaldo and realized by Bernardo Giannini di Lago Maggiore. Its construction began in 1582 and finished in 1618.