Description
The church of Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo, known to the people of Trieste as Sant'Antonio Nuovo, closes off the far end of the Grand Canal in the Borgo Teresiano: a great neoclassical temple that looks as if it stepped out of ancient Rome, and the main church of the city center.
The façade is a portico of six Ionic columns beneath a broad pediment. On the attic stand six statues carved by Francesco Bosa in 1842: the city's patron saints, among them Justus, Servulus and Euphemia.
Inside, in a church 92 meters long, arches and vaults draw your eye to the central dome. In the apse is Sebastiano Santi's 1836 fresco of the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem; along the sides, six altars with large 19th-century altarpieces.
Pietro Nobile's design won a competition in 1808, but work began only in 1825 and the church was consecrated in 1849. It replaced a Baroque church from 1771 that had grown too small.
The façade is a portico of six Ionic columns beneath a broad pediment. On the attic stand six statues carved by Francesco Bosa in 1842: the city's patron saints, among them Justus, Servulus and Euphemia.
Inside, in a church 92 meters long, arches and vaults draw your eye to the central dome. In the apse is Sebastiano Santi's 1836 fresco of the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem; along the sides, six altars with large 19th-century altarpieces.
Pietro Nobile's design won a competition in 1808, but work began only in 1825 and the church was consecrated in 1849. It replaced a Baroque church from 1771 that had grown too small.