Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala

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  • Address
    Piazza della Scala 23, Trastevere
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  • Phone
    06 580 62 33
  • Transport
    bus: Lungotevere della Farnesina (Piazza Trilussa)

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Lonely Planet review

The Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala dates from the turn of the 17th century. The big white façade hides a gloriously baroque interior with a particularly flamboyant marble altar. Next door, the Farmacia di Santa Maria della Scala, which supplied medicine to the popes in the 18th century, is still run by monks from the adjacent Carmelite monastery.

The monks are renowned for having commissioned, and then rejected, Caravaggio's Il Transito della Vergine (Transition of the Virgin), now in the Louvre (Paris).