Church of Sant'Anna
- Type
- Churches
- Area
- City centre
- Time
- about 25 min
- When
- during the day
Small and unassuming, the church of Sant'Anna is one of the oldest in Brindisi. A document of 1343 already mentions the place name "Sancta Anna", though that alone doesn't prove the church existed at the time.
The best evidence is inside: the frescoes date from the end of the thirteenth century and the first half of the fourteenth. They are reason enough to step in.
In 1694 a fire damaged the church, the nearby monastery and San Benedetto, and the building was probably reworked in the first half of the eighteenth century. Saint Anne is the patron saint of mothers.
Nearby
- Palazzo RipaOn Via Carmine stands Palazzo Ripa, a sixteenth-century noble house with clean, symmetrical lines.
- Church of San BenedettoSan Benedetto is one of the finest Romanesque churches in the city, and it is still open for worship.
- Church of Santa Maria degli AngeliSanta Maria degli Angeli is one of the churches of Brindisi's old town, a few steps from the other sights in the area.
- Tempio di San Giovanni al SepolcroSan Giovanni al Sepolcro is one of Brindisi's most unusual monuments: a round Romanesque church built by the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre…