Chiesa di Santa Teresa
Chiesa di Santa Teresa stands in Italy as a compact Baroque church with an eighteenth-century façade and a richly decorated single nave. Its Latin-cross plan includes eight side chapels, a dome, and two chapels at the transept ends.
Construction began in 1642 at the initiative of Christine Marie of France, with the design traditionally attributed to Carmelite priest Andrea Costaguta. Filippo Juvarra later completed important architectural and ornamental work, including the altar of the Sacred Family from 1715 to 1718 and the altar of Saint Joseph from 1733 to 1736. Luigi Vacca frescoed the dome in 1820 with the Glory of Saint Teresa, while marble, stucco, and paintings by Moncalvo and Sebastiano Conca enrich the interior.
The first chapel on the right holds the remains of Madama Reale Cristina. Night bombings in 1943 damaged the façade, roof, frescoes, organ, pulpit, and adjoining convent, leaving pitted stone beside the surviving decoration.
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