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Chiesa ed Ospizio di S. Galla

Here Vasi presents another long street view of which nothing is left today except for the distant S. Maria in Cosmedin (2). The street depicted here was known as Strada delle Carrozze (NN 1044) and served as a border of the Renaissance quarter of Porta Leone. One of its two principal churches was S. Galla (1) which was built in the 1680s and appears at the center of the print along with its hospice. This neighborhood stretched from the Theater of Marcellus, Plate 30, to S. Maria in Cosmedin, Plate 56, and was bounded on the other side by the river. The Strada delle Carrozze, whose course approximates that of the modern Via del Teatro Marcello, continues off the print to the right passing in front of the church of S. Niccolò in Carcere, Plate 118. That church is one of the few surviving buildings in the Porta Leone quarter which was almost totally demolished in the 1930's. At the left edge of the print is the beginning of the street (3) (the present Vico Jugario) which, as Vasi indicates "leads to S. Maria della Consolazione" (NN 966).