Church of Sant’Anna

A late sixteenth-century building, probably based on a design by Orazio Porta, it features a simple façade with a large semicircular window and an entrance portal with architrave and moldings.

The interior was originally divided into two levels, as it housed both the Confraternity of the Cross, devoted to charitable works, and the Company of Women (or “of the Mantle”), established in the fourteenth century to provide spiritual and material assistance to young women and widows. Today it consists of a single nave with a barrel vault and one central altar with statues depicting Saint Anne and the Madonna.

On either side of the altar are two seventeenth–eighteenth century Tuscan school paintings, Noli me tangere and Baptism of Christ, and two smaller paintings in octagonal frames depicting Christ with the Instruments of the Passion and Christ at the Column. In the central sections of the side walls are two early seventeenth-century frescoes attributed to Ulisse Giocchi, representing the Marriage of the Virgin and the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. The decoration is completed by several seventeenth–eighteenth century paintings on the counter-façade and in the sacristy.