The building was built at the beginning of the seventeenth century on a plot where there were some gardens and pre-existing buildings, on the block between the current via Fazia, Garibaldi, San Tito and Ricasoli. The construction was possible thanks to a donation made by the prelate Antonio Bartolini to the nuns of Vitalba who, moving to the new seat of Terranuova, would give life to the monastery of the Santissima Annunziata. In 1606, to facilitate the construction, the religious were granted support on the walls and, a century later, they were allowed to demolish a stretch to expand the space of the cloister. The building had to be practically finished at the beginning of 1621 because the nuns settled there on the first day of January of that year, remaining there until the mid-twentieth century. After the destruction suffered during the Second World War, the complex has been radically restored and made suitable to accommodate activities and services useful to the whole community of Newfoundland; also, the present church, in substitution of the Baroque, is a post-war work. Between the parts that still retain the original appearance there is the beautiful cloister with classic shapes, characterized by an arched loggia surmounted by another architrave with thin columns, in harmonious alternation of full and empty. On the high altar, after the restoration, the painting depicting the Annunciation, dated 1616 and signed by Francesco Curradi, was relocated.
