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San Filippo Neri Church

It was built in 1672 and consecrated in 1743.

Address and contacts

Via San Filippo - 42121 Reggio nell'Emilia
Phone 0039 0522.402210 - Curia Cultural Heritage
Phone 0039 0522.580362 - FAR Studium Regiense Foundation
Email farstudium@gmail.com

Opening times

The church is open only during concert, celebrations or other events.

How to get there

Reggio nell'Emilia - Town centre

Historical notes

By Orazio Talami, in the presbytery, is an Adoration of the Magi facing a Marriage of the Virgin by Soavi. By Domenico Pellizzi, in the apse, is a San Filippo Neri. Several works by Giacomo Pavia, Girolamo Donnini, a valuable polychrome wooden crucisix, frontals, shelves. On the choir loft are copies taken from Correggio: the Annunciation, the Scodella Virgin Mary and the one with San Girolamo. In the contiguous oratory, which in the last post-war period housed a printing press for a long time, are three ceilings with paintings (Assumption of Mary, Trinity, Angels) and a fourth one with coffered.