Convento di S. Filippo

The Convento di S. Filippo is a monastic complex built around a square central courtyard, its four sides treated with deliberate asymmetry. Two sides rise as tall, stacked porticoes of two orders, their arches sealed by rectangular windows; the others add a further storey, set back from the line of the façade. The whole is faced in regular courses of exposed brick, with a decorative terracotta band running beneath the eaves. At the north-west corner, a square brick tower rises above the roofline.

Inside, each floor has a corridor opening onto the courtyard, covered with cross-vaults and giving access to the rooms. Stone staircases link the levels, with service stairs to the mezzanines. The original main entrance, on Via S. Filippo, leads to a seventeenth-century staircase with gooseneck flights supported by pilasters; its top section was added in the eighteenth century, when that wing was raised. Two gates on Via V. Emanuele provide alternative access, one to the domestic chapel and internal rooms, the other to the courtyards on the south-east side, where low buildings form a connecting corridor.

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