Santa Maria del Prato, Roman Catholic church in Genoa, Italy

Santa Maria del Prato is a Romanesque church with Gothic influences at the corner of Piazza Leopardi and Via Parini in Genoa's Albaro district. It is built of squared limestone blocks with a gabled roof. The west facade is divided by two pilasters; its portal has a marble architrave and flanked by marble colonnettes with Corinthian capitals. Above the portal, a lunette holds a Byzantine-influenced mural of the Madonna Odigitria, restored in 2010. Three semicircular apses with hanging arches crown the east end.

Santa Maria del Prato was founded in 1172 by the Mortariensi, canons regular of Santa Croce di Mortara, financed by the consul Sigismondo Muscola and the Genoese citizens Angelerio Camilla and Blancardo, who obtained burial rights there. Known for four centuries as Santa Maria d'Albaro, it took its popular name from the public meadow around it. In 1718 the De Fornari family gained patronage, and in 1730 the church was remodelled in Baroque forms. Expropriated as a stable under Napoleon in 1800, it was restored to Romanesque lines between 1947 and 1951.

The name comes from the public meadow of San Francesco d'Albaro, now Piazza Leopardi, where the church stood almost alone until the 18th century. The Mortariensi canons served it until the 17th century, and since 1950 the crypt holds the tomb of Agostino Roscelli, founder of the Immacolatine sisters, canonized in 2001. It is not regularly officiated but opens on Sunday afternoons for guided visits.

The church stands at the corner of via Giuseppe Parini and piazza Giacomo Leopardi in Albaro, a short walk from the parish church of San Francesco d'Albaro. It is not regularly officiated; religious services are held on special occasions, and it opens on Sunday afternoons with guided tours.

The church is not regularly officiated, but it opens on Sunday afternoons for guided visits and hosts religious functions on special occasions. In the crypt lies the tomb of Agostino Roscelli, founder of the Suore dell'Immacolata, canonized by John Paul II in 2001.