Sant'Alessandro, Parma

Sant'Alessandro is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on in via Garibaldi #14 in central Parma, Italy.

The church of Sant'Alessandro and the adjacent Benedictine monastery was founded first in the year 835, putatively patronized by Cunegonda, widow of Bernard of Italy, King of the Lombards.

The church was rebuilt in 1527 under the direction of the architect Bernardino Zaccagni, and in 1622-1624 under designs by Giovanni Battista Magnani.

The ceiling of the nave was frescoed by Angelo Michele Colonna, while Alessandro Tiarini completed the illusionist cupola frescoes of the Redeemer, Madonna and angels carrying the instruments of the passion, and by four pendants with Saints Bonaventure, Gertrude, Berthold, and Alexander.

In the third chapel on the left, is a painting of the Madonna and child with St. Maurus and Benedict, attributed to Sebastiano Ricci.