Saints Girolamo and Vitale Church

Address and contacts

Via San Girolamo, 24 - 42121 Reggio nell'Emilia
0039 340 2821541 - Aps Città di Reggio
0039 0522 431926; 0039 327 8657360 - Confraternity
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Opening times

At Easter time (Holy Week) the church is open to allow the faithful to kneel on the Holy Stairs. The Via Crucis celebration takes place every Friday of Lent at 3.00 p.m.; then, the individual rite of the Holy Stairs may be practiced.

From February 2, 2024
The three San Girolamo churches, with the Last Supper, the Garden of Olives, the Holy Stairs, the Holy Sepulchre, the Holy Shroud and the Resurrection Rotunda, will be open every first Friday of the month from 3.00 to 6.00 p.m.

Guided tours
One Saturday a month the Città di Reggio social promotion association organizes free guided tours. Opening and conditions on the website.

How to get there

Reggio nell'Emilia - Town centre

Historical notes

The central part of the church is very old. In 1400 it passed to the San Girolamo Order which restored the church in 1646 entrusting Gaspare Vigarani, famous architect and scenographer who also worked at the court of Louis XIV of France, with the work.

The interior is particularly original and is composed of three oratories linked to each other by marble corridors and stairs, one of which is known as "Scala Santa" (Holy Stairs), following the original model in Rome. A rectangular-shaped church is placed at the front portico; the other, called "La Rotonda" (The Round-shaped) is designed in two tiers of colonnades placed one on top of the other, decorated with statues of saints in stucco. Finally, there is the "Sotterranea" (the Crypt) where has been rebuilt a copy of the Jerusalem sepulchre.