Garden streets

Nuns' Street

Almost at the end of Via Rastello, on the right, you can see Via delle Monache, whose name derives from the Monastery of Sant'Orsola that once flanked it.

In the first year of the war, the vast complex was particularly targeted due to the suspicion of an Austrian battery hidden in the garden. Hit by over three hundred bullets, "it was truly one huge ruin, and by then there was no part that was untouched." During the hours of respite and the passing of the danger, the nuns wandered through the rubble, searching for the few surviving objects and books. The monastery, including the eighteenth-century church, was so severely damaged that it was subsequently abandoned and completely razed to the ground in 1936.

Today, all that remains of the ancient complex is a small statue of the Madonna and Child placed in a shrine, above number 1. It was originally located in the small square in front of the church.

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