Sant'Anna, Piacenza

Sant'Anna is a Gothic style, Roman Catholic parish church, located at Via Scalabrini #83 in Piacenza, Region of Emilia Romagna, Italy.

A small church at the site titled Santa Maria di Betlem was associated with a nearby convent of the Umiliati.

In 1334, the property passed to an order of Servite nuns, who rebuilt the structures and dedicated the church to St Anne.

According to tradition, the monastery complex hosted a 14th-century wooden icon and painting of San Rocco.

The four stained glass windows of the apse designed by the Peresson firm from Milan, by their artist Trento Longaretti of Bergamo and depict Nativity, Baptism, Crucifixion, and the Mourning of the Death of Jesus Christ.

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