Chiesa dei Servi
Eighteenth-century Servite church, closed since the post-war years, with Soratini's two-order brick façade.
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Churches and places of worship
4Chiesa di San Bartolomeo
Thirteenth-century Romanesque church, rebuilt in 1209, today the Shrine of the Fallen of all wars.
Chiesa di Sant'Umiltà
Church rebuilt in 1741, Faenza's most important late Baroque example, with gilded stuccoes and a Greek cross plan.
Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Nives
Old church outside the gate, perhaps Faenza's first cathedral, with African breccia columns and an octagonal bell tower.
Museums, theatres and collections
1Museo Nazionale dell'età neoclassica in Romagna
Neoclassical house museum in Faenza, frescoed by Felice Giani between 1802 and 1805 for Count Francesco Milzetti.
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Museo del Risorgimento e dell'età contemporanea
The Museum of the Risorgimento and the Contemporary Age of Faenza is housed on the piano nobile of Palazzo Laderchi, on corso Garibaldi. Inaugurated in 1904, it has been set up in this building since 2009, after the restoration of the palace.
What to see
The museum offers a collection of relics and documents concerning historical figures and events of Faenza and its surroundings from 1790, the year of the arrival of Napoleonic troops in the city, through the Unification of Italy, up to the nineteen-forties.
Palazzo Laderchi was commissioned in 1780 by Count Ludovico Laderchi from the Bolognese architect Francesco Tadolini and built in neo-sixteenth-century forms; it is one of the main examples of the city's neoclassicism, recognised for the unity of its interior decorative schemes. The vault of the «Grande galleria» was frescoed by Felice Giani with ten large neoclassical panels telling the myth of Cupid and Psyche, completed on 4 June 1794; the walls have stucco pilasters by Antonio Trentanove. In the bachelor apartment of the count's brother, Achille, the architect Giovanni Antonio Antolini made an elliptical study, the «astronomy cabinet», decorated by Felice Giani in 1797.
Visiting
The museum is on the piano nobile of Palazzo Laderchi, at the corner of via XX Settembre and corso Garibaldi, in Faenza. The sources consulted give no opening hours or visiting arrangements: check them.
Our editors' tip
Count Francesco Laderchi, a distinguished patriot of the Risorgimento remembered by a large plaque to the right of the palace's main door, in 1847 housed the Civic Guard in the palace; his son Achille, one of the protagonists of the Faenza Risorgimento, fought the Austrians at Vicenza in 1848 and was twice mayor of Faenza.
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