13 – NEWSSTAND WITH TEMPLE

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(at the end of) via Bovio

The temple-like structure, typical of votive niches, has a stone shell typical of aediculae that housed the Madonnas and Saints and here the Saint it guarded has been lost, probably it was a aedicule in honor of San Rocco.

At number 69 of the very central via Bovio, this votive aedicule, despite being among the most capacious, is very little known, given its height. With the Pinto division of 1902, the house, on the corner between via Giovanni Bovio and via Filippo Corridoni, was assigned to Angela Pinto, daughter of the tailor Nicola Pinto and Paola Camastra. Therefore the entire building, with the adjoining aedicule, could have been built in the second half of the 19th century, following the demolition of some 18th-century houses in the area. The ancient demolished houses could be the same ones that belonged to Giannangelo Longo from whom, still in 1819, the so-called Giannangelo street took its name, corresponding to the last southern stretch of via Bovio (formerly Porta Nuova street). Not surprisingly, the Catasto Onciario of 1752 in the name of Giannangelo Longo, "an apartment of houses where he lives, with undergarments, in the vicinity of the arch of the Persii...".

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