Chiesa di Santa Teresa, Brindisi

The Church of St. Theresa is a Baroque church overlooking the square of the same name in Brindisi.

It was built through the munificence of priest Francesco Monetta and was the seat of the convent of the Teresians with the dedication to St. Joachim. When the convent was suppressed, it became a military headquarters in 1807: after restoration around 1980 it is the seat of the State Archives.

The façade has the forms of a modest Baroque with a few stone inserts on a carparo tuff face.

Inside, on either side of the high altar, two canvases by Diego Bianchi; in the first chapel on the right, Nativity, a 17th-century painting extremely interesting for its depictions of Salento costumes of the time; on the left, canvas with St. Andrew, Our Lady of Mount Carmel handing over the scapular by Serafino Elmo of Lecce; stone statue St. Francis of Paola; marble epigraph of Don Aloysio Ferreira benefactor. On the over door Education of the Virgin Mary.