Tags: Religious Building.
Santa Maria della Visitazione al Ponte delle Lame is a church or sanctuary in central Bologna.At one time the church was built around an oratory in the middle of a bridge and surrounded by the Reno Canal. It was founded in 1527 when an icon in a tabernacle on the bridge became the site for prayers during an epidemic of the plague. After the epidemic ebbed an oratory was built at the site of the tabernacle. The structure is presently deconsecrated.