Chiesa di Santa Maria della Carita

The SS Naborre and Felice Abbey (where S. Zama’s Crypt is kept) has also been the site of Bologna’s Military Hospital. During the 3rd century, in this site, already existed the first and most important Christian diffusion center. It is said that the first archibishop in Bologna, around the year 270, had improved the preexisting church, dedicating it to St. Peter The Crypt is stylistically referable around the 11th century: it is subdivided in three naves, with three apses and with two rows of columns in the middle nave. The four columns before the altar are in Corinthian style, most likely deriving from elder constructions and reused here.

Pallavicini Palace was built on the tradition of the Bolognese Fifteenth century, when under the Bentivoglio dominion it belonged to the Sala family (1493) then in time was owned by the Volta, the Marsili and the Isolani counts, who in 1680 renovated it “in the senatorial architecture” (cf. Giudicini). They entrusted, the architect, Paolo Canali with the task, who projected and built the monumental staircase and the hall with a lantern shape ceiling, the highest of the city together with the one in Ranuzzi Palace, whereas in 1690 the halls were embellished with Giovanni Antonio Burrini’s paintings.