Monte dei Cappuccini Torino

The Milanese engineer Giacomo Soldati was commissioned to transform the old structure to be entrusted to the friars, established on the mountain in 1583, under the title of Santa Maria. In 1596 the construction was interrupted and resumed only in 1610 by the architect and military engineer Ascanio Vitozzi from Orvieto (1539-1615), who made some significant changes by raising the drum with the dome, the sacristy and the choir. The original plan envisioned by Soldati, based on the model of a Renaissance temple with a central plan, is only recognizable externally, while the structural modification made by Vitozzi at the base of the dome considerably changes the internal appearance marking the passage of the century. In 1621 the Capuchins were authorized to officiate the church.