Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo, Trieste

[1] Until the middle of the eighteenth century, a private chapel dedicated to the Annunciation stood on the site of the present church.

After Antonio Rossetti granted permission for the chapel to be opened to the public, the great number of worshippers soon made the space inadequate.

As a result, it was decided to build a new church in the baroque style dedicated to Saint Anthony.

The same year the neoclassical design of the Swiss architect Pietro Nobile won a competition.

[6][1] Among the paintings by local artists in the church are Michelangelo Grigoletti’s Education of the Virgin (1838), Odorico Politi’s Saint Anthony in Glory (1842), Felice Schiavoni’s Presentation at the Temple and Sebastiano Santi's Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem[4] Alessandro Longhi’s The Visitation of the Virgin (1769), Ludovico Lipparini’s Martyrdom of the Saints of Aquileia (1840) and Joseph Ernst Tunner's The Crucifix (1838).