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Church of San Francesco da PaolaIn 1623 are called in Turin by Carlo Emanuele I, the friars of San Francesco da Paola of the order of the Minimi.  Church of San Francesco da Paola In 1632 it was assigned to them a lot of land along the way that goes from the castle to the Po, and on it, it was built the church and the convent on a project attributed to the Carmelite Andrea Costaguta, promoted and financed by Vittorio Amedeo I and Christine of France. The frontal part of the church, realized by masters of Lugano, was finished in 1667 and the building yard continued until the last decades of the 17th century (consecrated in 1730). The inside of the church is at single nave covered by a lunetted barrel vault, in which there are six side chapels. Projected by Amedeo di Castellamonte, the high altar was realized by Tomaso Carlone (1664-1665, altar-piece by Charles Claude Duphin) and the third chapel on the right was realized by Giuseppe Maria and Giovanni Domenico Carlone; in the first chapel in the left, there is an altar attributed to Carlo Emanuele Lanfranchi (with altar-piece by Daniel Seyter); in the third chapel on the left there is the Madonna del Buon Soccorso by Tomaso Carlone. Information: |