Chiesa di S. Maria del Carmine

This is not a tower, but a church; its façade, a baroque stone tableau, confronts Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini with confident symmetry. Built of brick and tile under a double-pitched roof, the structure rises in two distinct orders. The lower level is divided into three bays by engaged columns, supporting a heavy entablature carved with triglyphs and metopes. A semicircular flight of steps leads to the portal, which is framed by scrolling volutes and a broken pediment, its centre bearing a stone crest and crown.

Above, a second tier of smaller columns carries a curious trilobed pediment, its inner edge splayed and moulded. A large central window, with bulging, moulded jambs, sits between the middle columns. Flanking it are two blind, rectangular panels. Perched on the pediment’s lobes and corners are four allegorical statues, three representing the theological virtues, and one a cardinal virtue, while a truncated conical finial crowns the apex. Inside, the single nave is richly decorated in high baroque style, its bays defined by round arches on polygonal piers and stucco-capped pilasters.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.