Santa Maria della Neve al Portico

Santa Maria della Neve al Portico is a Roman Catholic church and convent located on a rural site on Via del Podestà #86 in the suburban neighborhood of Galluzzo southeast of the urban center of Florence, Italy.

In 1529, during the siege of Florence, the nuns were forced to abandon the monastery and take shelter in the city, and returned to a buildings heavily vandalized by the imperial troops.

Previously the old church had an enclosed interior second story choir that separated the nuns from the visiting faithful, this was moved to an external loggia.

The church was reconsecrated in 1705 as Santa Maria della Neve, in memory of a putatively miraculous summer snowfall that occurred on 15 August 1702.

In 1852, it was returned to the religious authorities and made the motherhouse of the order of the Suore Stimmatine or also Povere Figlie delle Sacre Stimmate di San Francesco d'Assisi (Stigmatine Sisters or Poor Daughters of the Holy Stigmata of Saint Francis).