Chiesa di Sant'Anna

The Chiesa di Sant’Anna is a Baroque church, its plan a single nave ending in a rectangular presbytery. Two stiffening arches break the longitudinal line, a practical rather than decorative intervention. The barrel vault is built from granite blocks for roughly a third of its span, then brick laid edgewise, an economical shift in materials that tells its own story of construction. The perimeter walls are of exposed granite block, straightforward and sturdy. The floor, replaced in the last restoration, is laid in campigiane tiles; the new roof, of clay-cement and tiles, sits on a cornice of small corbels spaced every sixty centimetres or so, topped with granite slabs. What truly sets this church apart, however, are the two lateral arches, each containing a niche. They are a distinctive feature, giving the interior an unexpected sculptural rhythm not found in comparable churches of the period.

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