Chiesa della Pietà

The church of the Pietà has ancient origins, perhaps 1260, but nothing remains of the first building. In 1566 it passed to the Capuchins, who built the convent of the Annunziata beside it; the site was abandoned several times because of the unhealthy air from the nearby marshes.

In 1713 the church was entrusted to the confraternity of the Pietà, which in 1724 began an enlargement that lasted until 1936. Among those who contributed to the costs, in a personal capacity, were Mussolini in 1931 and Graziani in 1936, in a climate tied to the Ethiopian war.

The bombing of 8 November 1941 damaged it; it reopened in 1944, and since 1948 it has been a parish run by the Friars Minor. Inside you'll find a wooden Our Lady of Sorrows and, in the apse, the mosaic "The Pietà, Saint Francis and Brindisi" by the Venetian firm Ortes, from the 1960s.