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San Filippo Neri in via Giulia

Historic site · Regola, Italy

Permanently closed. This page is kept for reference.

The church is deconsecrated and is not open to visitors. Its three-bay, two-storey façade by Fiori carries a giant Ionic order and an architrave inscribed DEO.IN.HONOREM.S.PHILIPPI.NERII.DICATUM; inside, the central axis of the three-bay nave is not perpendicular to the façade.

History

The church was built for Rutilio Brandi, a glove-maker from San Gimignano who, having gout, had it dedicated to San Trofimo, protector of the gouty; the dedication later shifted to Filippo Neri. In 1797, when the French demanded money from the pope under the Treaty of Tolentino, the church's rector refused to hand over its silver reliquary. Nearly all the buildings around it were demolished from 1938, and the church survived only because the war stopped the works.

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Via Giulia 134/B, 00186 Roma RM

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