Hospital nuovo regina margherita

hospital nuovo regina margherita

The New Regina Margherita Hospital

The New Regina Margherita Hospital

The origins

The origins

Walking through history

Walking through history

The architecture of the complex

The architecture of the complex

Inaugurated in 1970, the new Regima Margherita hospital rests on centuries of history.
Its birth is traced back to the ancient monastery erected in the tenth century in honor of the Saints and Medici brothers Cosmas and Damian.

Inaugurated in 1970, the new Regima Margherita hospital rests on centuries of history.
Its birth is traced back to the ancient monastery erected in the tenth century in honor of the Saints and Medici brothers Cosmas and Damian.

Inaugurated in 1970, the new Regima Margherita hospital rests on centuries of history.
Its birth is traced back to the ancient monastery erected in the tenth century in honor of the Saints and Medici brothers Cosmas and Damian.

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The Nuovo Regina Margherita presidium is a hospital structure that, together with the ancient church of San Cosimato built in the tenth century, overlooks Piazza San Cosimato. The construction of the monastery ended in 1069 and in the same year Pope Alexander II consecrated the church, as recalled by the tombstone found in 1892 and still preserved here. In 1229 Pope Gregory IX assigned the monastery to the Camaldolese Benedictines who remained there until 1234, when the same pope decided to entrust it to a group of Poverelle sent by Saint Clare, who at the time was imprisoned with her companions in the monastery of San Damiano in Assisi (for this reason also called Recluse of San Damiano or Poor Clares), in order, as the Pope said, << to mitigate with the life of prayer and sacrifice the wrath of God on the eternal city >>. Despite other restoration works in the following two centuries, the whole complex was in a state of total instability in 1475, so to avoid the final ruin, intervened Pope Sixtus IV, who rebuilt the church and part of the monastery from the foundations. The end of the monastery as a conventual seat took place on August 12, 1891, when the abbess received the official order to leave San Cosimato with an Act of expropriation of the Religious Congregation and a subsequent Act of transfer and delivery of the monastery to the City of Rome for the transformation into hospice. Then the structure undergoes many transformations: first it becomes a shelter for the elderly sick and needy, then it becomes the Umberto I Hospice in San Cosimato and in 1925 it became part of the United Institutes of Assistance and Charity in Rome, until in the '60s the construction of the hospital specialized in orthopaedics and surgery, renovated by architect Alegiani and engineer Secchi, and inaugurated in March 1970 with the name of Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital still working.

The Nuovo Regina Margherita presidium is a hospital structure that, together with the ancient church of San Cosimato built in the tenth century, overlooks Piazza San Cosimato. The construction of the monastery ended in 1069 and in the same year Pope Alexander II consecrated the church, as recalled by the tombstone found in 1892 and still preserved here. In 1229 Pope Gregory IX assigned the monastery to the Camaldolese Benedictines who remained there until 1234, when the same pope decided to entrust it to a group of Poverelle sent by Saint Clare, who at the time was imprisoned with her companions in the monastery of San Damiano in Assisi (for this reason also called Recluse of San Damiano or Poor Clares), in order, as the Pope said, << to mitigate with the life of prayer and sacrifice the wrath of God on the eternal city >>. Despite other restoration works in the following two centuries, the whole complex was in a state of total instability in 1475, so to avoid the final ruin, intervened Pope Sixtus IV, who rebuilt the church and part of the monastery from the foundations. The end of the monastery as a conventual seat took place on August 12, 1891, when the abbess received the official order to leave San Cosimato with an Act of expropriation of the Religious Congregation and a subsequent Act of transfer and delivery of the monastery to the City of Rome for the transformation into hospice. Then the structure undergoes many transformations: first it becomes a shelter for the elderly sick and needy, then it becomes the Umberto I Hospice in San Cosimato and in 1925 it became part of the United Institutes of Assistance and Charity in Rome, until in the '60s the construction of the hospital specialized in orthopaedics and surgery, renovated by architect Alegiani and engineer Secchi, and inaugurated in March 1970 with the name of Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital still working.

Today the only sign of the presence of the ancient monastery on the homonymous square of San Cosimato is the pretty entrance protiro (the short corridor between the street door and the internal entrance of the ancient Roman house) of the twelfth century, which once allowed access to the monastic complex. The church is a small room with a single nave covered with frescoes by modest nineteenth-century artists. On the high altar, between two black marble columns, there is a modern icon in Byzantine style depicting a Madonna with Child: a copy because the original, of the thirteenth century, was transported to the Central Institute of Restoration and still preserved there; next to the main altar stands out a detached fresco representing the Madonna with Saint Francis and Saint Clare, the work of a painter of the second half of the 15th century, Antonio del Massaro from Viterbo called the Pastura, student of Pinturicchio; this work comes from the church of Santa Maria del Popolo with some marble artifacts that constitute the altar of the nearby chapel of Santa Severa, and these fifteenth-century marble parts are attributed either to the Bregno or to Gian di Sisto IV but, the neglect and improper use of the building, have damaged it and make it difficult to read and understand. Under the porticoes some epigraphs are walled, among which those of the abbot Odimondo, Margherita Maleti and Alba Ermenegilda Acquaroni, the abbess who carried out some works in 1756, and of great interest are also the fragments of inscriptions, capitals, sarcophagi and tombstones.

Today the only sign of the presence of the ancient monastery on the homonymous square of San Cosimato is the pretty entrance protiro (the short corridor between the street door and the internal entrance of the ancient Roman house) of the twelfth century, which once allowed access to the monastic complex. The church is a small room with a single nave covered with frescoes by modest nineteenth-century artists. On the high altar, between two black marble columns, there is a modern icon in Byzantine style depicting a Madonna with Child: a copy because the original, of the thirteenth century, was transported to the Central Institute of Restoration and still preserved there; next to the main altar stands out a detached fresco representing the Madonna with Saint Francis and Saint Clare, the work of a painter of the second half of the 15th century, Antonio del Massaro from Viterbo called the Pastura, student of Pinturicchio; this work comes from the church of Santa Maria del Popolo with some marble artifacts that constitute the altar of the nearby chapel of Santa Severa, and these fifteenth-century marble parts are attributed either to the Bregno or to Gian di Sisto IV but, the neglect and improper use of the building, have damaged it and make it difficult to read and understand. Under the porticoes some epigraphs are walled, among which those of the abbot Odimondo, Margherita Maleti and Alba Ermenegilda Acquaroni, the abbess who carried out some works in 1756, and of great interest are also the fragments of inscriptions, capitals, sarcophagi and tombstones.

It is a structure composed of medieval and fifteenth-century buildings in which the remains of the Benedictine church and cloister have been preserved, where the thirteenth-century convent of the Poor Clares and the bell tower built by Sixtus IV survive. The beautiful Romanesque bell tower, visible from the cloister of Sixtus IV, which rises between the modern structures with its three floors, the first with mullioned windows on a pillar, the second and the third with three-light windows on columns and capitals with crutches, that is trapezoidal shape that rests on the arch. A row of slightly protruding bricks emphasizes the arches and continues on the four sides, while the division of the individual floors is obtained through an elegant marble frame to be attributed to the reconstruction of an older bell tower, carried out at the time of Sixtus IV.

Buffered in several parts, the bell tower possessed a bell of 1238 fused by Bartolomeo Pisano, now preserved, along with other old bells and some excavation finds, in an environment that precedes the ancient chapter hall, east of the cloister. These last are mainly present in the north and east, where they formed seven bays that include a series of three or four arches, framed by two pillars. The upper loggia, as mentioned above, built at the time of Sixtus IV, had a series of round arches supported by octagonal pillars. Smaller, it has a square plan, with nine arches on each side supported by octagonal travertine pillars, enriched by beautiful capitals with plant motifs. In the upper order there was an architraved loggia, also marked by octagonal pilasters: later it was closed and also this loggia is currently occupied by modern windows.

It is a structure composed of medieval and fifteenth-century buildings in which the remains of the Benedictine church and cloister have been preserved, where the thirteenth-century convent of the Poor Clares and the bell tower built by Sixtus IV survive. The beautiful Romanesque bell tower, visible from the cloister of Sixtus IV, which rises between the modern structures with its three floors, the first with mullioned windows on a pillar, the second and the third with three-light windows on columns and capitals with crutches, that is trapezoidal shape that rests on the arch. A row of slightly protruding bricks emphasizes the arches and continues on the four sides, while the division of the individual floors is obtained through an elegant marble frame to be attributed to the reconstruction of an older bell tower, carried out at the time of Sixtus IV.

Buffered in several parts, the bell tower possessed a bell of 1238 fused by Bartolomeo Pisano, now preserved, along with other old bells and some excavation finds, in an environment that precedes the ancient chapter hall, east of the cloister. These last are mainly present in the north and east, where they formed seven bays that include a series of three or four arches, framed by two pillars. The upper loggia, as mentioned above, built at the time of Sixtus IV, had a series of round arches supported by octagonal pillars. Smaller, it has a square plan, with nine arches on each side supported by octagonal travertine pillars, enriched by beautiful capitals with plant motifs. In the upper order there was an architraved loggia, also marked by octagonal pilasters: later it was closed and also this loggia is currently occupied by modern windows.