Sant' Agostino Church

Address and contacts

Piazzetta Pignedoli - 42121 Reggio nell'Emilia
0039 0522 439925

Holy Mass

Weekdays
6.30 p.m.

Sunday and holidays
9.00 a.m.
11.00 a.m.
6.30 p.m.

How to get there

Reggio nell'Emilia - Town centre.

Historical notes

Founded in the VIII century and dedicated to St. Apollinare, it was rebuilt in the Lombard-Gothic style and then renovated with the addition of the apses (Filippo Zoboli, 1495) and the bell tower (Antonio Casotti, 1452-93). The Baroque façade of the Corinthian order, enclosed by columns, is the work of Giovan Battista Cattani from a design by Alfonso Torreggiani (1746) and is adorned with the statues of “S. Nicola da Tolentino” and “S. Guglielmo” (Antonio Schiassi, XVIII century). The interior, by Gaspare Vigarani (1651-66), has a single large luminous nave, with a rigorous and essential scenography. It preserves beautiful paintings by the XVII century artists including, in the left arm of the transept, a “S. Apollinare" by Giovan Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, and, in the second chapel on the left, the iconography of the "Madonna della Ghiara" by Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma the Young. Note also, in the presbytery, the group of stucco statues of the four "Doctors of the Church" by Paolo Emilio Besenzi and, on the entrance wall, the oldest fresco "Virgin Mary with the Child", dating back to the mid-XIV century.