Trevi Walk: Detour

Around Trevi

You can walk to two interesting churches from Piazza Garibaldi.

  • Viale Ciuffelli, the leafy road between the hospital and Bar Chalet, leads to San Martino (about 1 km).
  • Via Coste San Paolo and Via Orto degli Spiriti lead to the cemetery (signed to the left) and the church of Sant' Antonio Abate (about 1 km).  The church is closed and abandoned but this is a nice walk with  fine views of Trevi.

Convento di Sant’ Antonio Abate

or dei Cappuccini (1616)

This complex belonged to the Capuchins, who were established at Trevi in 1559 in a hermitage near this site.  They acquired this site for their church and convent in 1614 and used material from the demolished church of San Giovanni di Giano for the construction.

It seems that St Joseph of Leonessa  stayed in the earlier hermitage shortly before his death in 1612.  A document (1629) in the local archive records that, at this time, he cured a young girl called Marta di Giovanni Angelo del Ferro (later the Abbess Agnes of the Monastero di Santa Lucia - see Trevi walk) of a terminal disease.



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