Chiesa di Sant'Anna, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Chiesa di Sant'Anna della Misericordia, or Church of St Anne the Mercy, a Baroque church
designed by Mariano Smiriglio and Giovanni Biagio Amico and built 1609-32, seen from the terrace of the Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi, commissioned by the prince and princess of Gangi, Pietro and Marianna Valguarnera, and built 1749-59, on the Piazza Croce dei Vespri in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The mansion was decorated in Sicilian Baroque style by Marianna Valguarnera and later in Neoclassical stye, with great opulence throughout. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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