Florence - San Giovanni degli Scolopi

John the Evangelist ranks second in importance after John the Baptist as patron saint of Florence, and it was in his honor that in 1579 the architect Ammanati began to build this church and the adjacent college for the Jesuits opposite the Palazzo Medici. It was not completed, however, until 1661, when the architect was Alfonso Parigi the Younger. With the banishment of the Jesuits from Florence in 1773 the church was handed over to the "Padri Scolopi".

The facade and the interior, richly adorned with marble and frescoes, show this to be a church on which no expense was spared.