Santa Maria Della Carità, Naples
Santa Maria della Carità (also called La Giorgia) is a church located on Piazza Carità in Naples, Italy. History The church was founded in the 16th century, circa the plague year of 1550 or just before. It was attached in 1627 to the Pii Operai Catechisti Rurali who abandoned the building in 1633, when their founder, Carlo Carafa died and the building was transferred to a Congregation of Nobili (aristocrats). The church and conservatory were suppressed during the Napoleonic occupation. Reopened in 1823, with the nickname of ''la Giorgia'', and was transferred to the care of the ''Congregation of the Rosary''. The church was reconstructed in the 19th century, and in so, destroyed many of the frescoes of Andrea Malinconico. Also lost was an altarpiece of the ''Holy Family'' by Giulio Romano given to the church by Pope Paul III Pope Paul III (; ; born Alessandro Farnese; 29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States f ...
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Naples
Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of Naples, province-level municipality is the third most populous Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 2,958,410 residents, and the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth most populous in the European Union. Naples metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately . Naples also plays a key role in international diplomacy, since it is home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. Founded by Greeks in the 1st millennium BC, first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope () was e ...
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