The loggiato dei Cappuccini is a long portico that connects the town of Comacchio (Ferrara) to the distant Church of the Madonna del Popolo or Santa Maria in Aula Regia. It is the last of the great buildings built in the first half of the 17th century and final element in the establishment of the forma urbis of Comacchio.
Built between the end of 1647 and spring 1648, it is a "street covered by a long order of porticoes which protect passengers from the Tramontana wind". The western end of the village, where the Capuchin Sanctuary is located, was then an isolated and uninhabited place, open to the valleys, impassable in summer for the heat and in winter for the cold winds. It is a spectacular urban intervention that doubled the visual extension of the city, an effect accentuated by the reflection on the water of the canals.
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