Santo Spirito, Renaissance oratory in Bologna, Italy.

Santo Spirito is a small Catholic oratory on via Val d'Aposa in Bologna's historic centre, built between 1481 and 1497 for the Celestine fathers of nearby San Giovanni Battista. Its façade is clad and decorated in cotto, with ornaments and five medallions of saints attributed to the medallist Sperandio di Mantova. It stands above the structure of a gate of the early medieval city wall.

The Celestines of the nearby church of San Giovanni Battista built the oratory between 1481 and 1497, over a gate of the early medieval city wall where an old image of the Madonna stood in a simple tabernacle. It was first dedicated to the Madonna but took the name Spirito Santo from the lay confraternity based there. The confraternity was suppressed in 1798 and its works passed to the State.

The oratory takes its popular name from the lay confraternity of the Holy Spirit that had its seat here, though the church was first dedicated to the Madonna. The confraternity was suppressed in 1798 and its building and works passed to the State. Today the oratory is used by the Emilia Orientale-Romagna delegation of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

The oratory stands on via Val d'Aposa in Bologna's historic centre, on the site of a gate in the early medieval city walls. It is used today by the Delegazione Emilia Orientale-Romagna of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, so visits depend on that delegation rather than on fixed public hours; check access before going.

The oratory stands on the site of a gate in the early medieval city walls; an old image of the Madonna, kept under a simple tabernacle there, prompted the Celestines of nearby San Giovanni Battista to build the church between 1481 and 1497. The five terracotta medallions of saints on the facade are attributed to the medallist Sperandio di Mantova.