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Santa Brigida, Calvi dell'Umbria

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172: 17: 58:. The project aimed to enlarge the church of the convent. The site previously contained a medieval church of San Paolo and an Oratory of San Antonio. The two former structures, still evident in the stone around the portals and housing walled up oculi, were hidden behind the tall bipartite facade with giant order pilasters and an unusual tympanum. The tympanum recalls the church of the Babino Gesu all'Esquilino in Rome (now belonging to The 65:
The interior has three altars and in the apse, there are wooden choir stalls. The second story has a number of Wooden screens behind which could sit the cloistered nuns. The church contains altarpieces depicting the
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The nuns inhabited the monastery until 1994. Some of the original furniture, the kitchens and other portions of the monastery are now open to guided visits.
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church and former Ursuline convent located on Piazza Mazzini in the town of
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displaying religious works and exhibits about the former life of the
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18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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