Sant' Angelo (16th century)

View from the path around the city walls
(Turn right outside Porta della Valle)

The church and monastery here were built above the medieval walls and belonged originally to the Jesuits.  In 1601, Bishop Antonio Maria Graziani invited the Somaschi Fathers to Amelia and gave them the complex.  They enjoyed the patronage of the Petrignani family, and in 1620 they established a seminary on the site.   They left Amelia after the Napoleonic occupation, and the church is now closed. 

The brick façade has two towers; the one on the right contains a clock that has only six hours marked on its face.

Most of its church’s altarpieces are now in the Pinacoteca, but its frescoes (17th century), which included one attributed to the Cavalier d’ Arpino, have been destroyed. 

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