Scalzi, Verona
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The church of the Scalzi (Chiesa degli Scalzi) is a religious building in Verona, named after the Discalced Carmelites who commissioned it. The order had arrived in Verona in 1663 and was initially housed in a Dominican monastery. Bit by bit they bought other buildings and obtained a grant of three fields from the city in adjoining land - the following year they moved to their new base and in 1666 began work building a church and monastic buildings. The intensive construction phase only lasted to 1750, with the facade only finished much later. Initially dedicated to the Virgin of the Annunciation and Saint Gabriel the Archangel (Vergine Annunziata e a San Gabriele Arcangelo), the order rededicated it to their patron Teresa of Avila. The monastery was suppressed on 8 July 1806 by a decree of Napoleon and came to be used as a prison from 1883 onwards. The monastic buildings were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War.
References
- G. Borelli, Chiese e monasteri di Verona, Verona, Banca popolare di Verona, 1980.
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