Chiesa di San Rocco
San Rocco is a compact Baroque Roman Catholic church that faces the Piazza dei Cavalieri in central Pisa. Built in 1634, the new façade was added by architect Cosimo Pugliani between 1630 and 1634, placing this building squarely in the early 17th-century Baroque renovation of Pisa’s religious spaces. The church is associated with the Order of Saint Roch, whose presence here was formalized in 1575 when the church was granted to the order; the order itself was suppressed in 1782, after which the church came under the diocese and underwent further restoration in 1899. Inside, the interior houses frescoed niches that date back to the 13th century, reflecting earlier decorative layers embedded in the walls. The ceiling fresco depicting St. …
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