Santa Giulia, Renaissance church in Livorno, Italy

Santa Giulia is a small church beside Livorno's Duomo, built as the oratory of the Confraternita del Santissimo Sacramento e di Santa Giulia. Its simple facade has two niches, now empty: statues of Saints Jerome and Anthony Abbot were replaced in 1848 by Saints Peter and Paul, destroyed in the Second World War. A small bell tower rises on the left side; inside is a rectangular hall with an atrium and a 17th-century high altar.

Construction of the building began in 1602 during a period of rapid growth in Livorno, when the city was developing as a major port under Medici rule. This era brought significant religious and urban development to the city.

The church began as the oratory of the Confraternita del Santissimo Sacramento e di Santa Giulia, a lay brotherhood documented at the cala Liburna from the second half of the 13th century and officially recognised in the early 14th. In 1809 the association was raised to the rank of arciconfraternita. The brotherhood still holds the oratory, the adjoining oratory of San Ranieri and the Museo di Santa Giulia, and keeps a cemetery for its members and their families on the city outskirts.

The church is located near Via Santa Giulia in the central area of Livorno and is easy to reach on foot. Visitors can enter during standard opening hours and should dress respectfully when inside.

The 13th-century panel of Saint Julia on the main altar is attributed to the Master of San Torpè; the original is kept in the confraternity's museum, which also holds a Giotto-school painting of the saint from the demolished pieve of Santa Giulia near the old port.