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 CAMPO DE' FIORI
Before the 15th century it was a field covered by green grass and flowers, which was used as a pasture land. This probably gave the name to the square: Campo di Flora. It became an important place due to the transfer of the traffic from the slopes of...
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 CARCERE MAMERTINUM (PRISON OF SS. PETER & PAUL)
Carcere Mamertino according to a legend was the jail where St Peter and St Paul were imprisoned. They would have stayed here for nine months and could runaway thanks to the help of other prisoners converted by the apostles. Thus it was transformed in...
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 CASA DEI CRESCENZI
This rare medieval building now contains the Centro Studi per la Storia dell’Architettura, a center for architectural studies; it was erected in 1040-65 by Nicolò di Crescenzio using ancient fragments. It was damaged when the Holy Roman Emperor Henry...
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 CATACOMBS
Places of burial and worship of the early Christians. Their most ancient nuclei date from the 2nd century and were created along the edges of the consular roads outside of the city walls. At present the upkeep and management of all Roman Christians c...
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 CHURCH & HOSPITAL OF S. MARY OF THE CONSOLATION
The Arch-confraternity of S. Maria in Portico della Consolazione e delle Grazie managing the Ospedale della Consolazione, the hospital built in 1470 adjoining the church with the same name, was founded in 1506. It had as a property a piece of territo...
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 CHURCH GESU' E MARIA
In 1615 the Augustinian brothers acquired a piece of land between modern Via di Gesu' e Maria and Via di S.Giacomo, between Via del Corso and Via del Babuino, which before was a villa of cardinal Flavio Orsini. The church was built many years later,...
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 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
The church was erected in 1882-1887 on the site of destroyed Cappella di S.Antonio Abata belonging to the Convent of Gesu' e Maria. The project is by G.E.Street, the architects were Pietro Barucci and Vincenzo Canizzaro.The construction is an example...
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 CHURCH OF GESU'
The full name of this principal Jesuit church in Rome is Chiesa del SS.Nome di Gesu'. It was built in 1568-1584 on the site of some demolished buildings and Chiesetta di S.Maria della Strada, on expenses of cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The design of ...
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 CHURCH OF S. ANASTASIA
The church was built in the 4th century, it was decorated with mosaics in the 5th century and restored by Theodoric and by popes of the 8th century. During the Byzantine domination in Rome, it served as an official church of the representatives of th...
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 CHURCH OF S. ANDREA AL QUIRINALE
It is a masterpiece by G.L.Bernini, who erected it in 1658-1671 in collaboration with his pupil M.De Rossi, on the site of an older church dedicated to the same saint. The new construction was ordered by cardinal Camillo Pamphili, who destined the ch...
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 CHURCH OF S. BALBINA
The church was built in the 4th century over the other ancient constructions. The convent of the church was fortified and served as a fortress protecting the territory around it. One tower still exists dominating the building of the convent, which is...
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 CHURCH OF S. BONAVENTURA AL PALATINO
The church was built in 1625 by initiative of cardinal Francesco Barberini and Blessed Bonaventura da Barcellona. It stands on the highest summit of the Palatine Hill. Previously this site was occupied by Conserva d'Acqua Claudia, water reservoir, wh...
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 CHURCH OF S. BRIGIDA
The church was built by Boniface IX in the 14th century on the site of the houses of the Papazzurri family, where S.Brigida of Sweden stayed during her sojourn in Rome in the 14th century. The church was rebuilt by Clement XI in the beginning of the ...
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 CHURCH OF S. CARLO ALLE QUATTRO FONTANE
The church is dedicated to the SS.Trinita' and to St Charles Borromeo (S.Carlo), but it is popularly called "S.Carlino" because of its reduced dimensions. They say that the church enters precisely in the area of one of the pilasters that support the ...
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 CHURCH OF S. CESAREO
The church was built over another Roman construction. It was restored in the end of the 16th century by G.Della Porta. Interior is represented by a hall with a rich golden ceiling and various Cosmatesque works like a high altar, the bishop's throne, ...
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 CHURCH OF S. CHIARA
It was erected in 1563 by F.da Volterra, together with the adjoining hospice for conversion, by wish of St Charles Borromeo and was originally dedicated to St Pius I. In 1628 cardinal Scipione Borghese ordered restoration of the church and change of...
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 CHURCH OF S. GIOVANNI A PORTA LATINA
The church was erected in the 5th century, and reconstructed in 722 and in 1191. Interior is on basilican plan with a nave and two aisles divided by 5 ancient columns on each side. The church preserves the traces of fine 12th century frescoes represe...
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 CHURCH OF S. GIOVANNI DECOLLATO
Its construction was begun over the site of the Chiesa di S.Maria della Fossa (1190) in 1488 by the Arch-confraternity of S.Giovanni Decollato, named of Misericordia, and finished in 1504. The Arch-confraternity was composed of Florentines, who's goa...
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 CHURCH OF S. GIOVANNI IN AYNO
This church was built in the 15th century and now is inhabited. It is not known yet the origin of the such a strange name "Ayno", as well as the origins of the church itself. The facade was built in 1590 by a certain Bonanni as an inscription says.
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 CHURCH OF S. GIROLAMO DELLA CARITA'
Accordinf to a legend the church was founded on the place of the S.Girolamo's house in 382. Till 1536 it was a church of the congregation Minori Osservanti, but they moved to Isola Tiberina and Clement VII gave it to the noble Florentinians and thei...
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 CHURCH OF S. GREGORIO AL CELIO
The church was erected on the site of the house of pope St Gregory the Great. From original church remained the Cosmatesque pavement and 16 ancient columns. It was completely reconstructed from outside and inside in 1629-1633 by the wish of the cardi...
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 CHURCH OF S. IVO ALLA SAPIENZA
The University Sapienza initially used the church of S.Eustachio for the religious ceremonies and Diploma conferment. But Leo X had a chapel serving for these needs built on the territory of the University. A century later Urban VIII decided to give...
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 CHURCH OF S. LORENZO IN DAMASO
The primitive little church erected by pope St Damaso I in 380 was destroyed for the construction of Palazzo della Cancelleria. Cradinal Raffaele Riario had probably D.Bramante to reconstruct this church in present forms. G.Valadier restored it after...
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 CHURCH OF S. MARCO
The original church was built by order of pope St Mark in 336 in honor of the saint with the same name. In the 9th century it was reconstructed with the creation of apse mosaics, that survived till our days. The church was totally recnostructed by Po...
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 CHURCH OF S. MARIA ANTIQUA
In 1902 the church located on this site, Chiesa di S.Maria Liberatrice, was demolished. It was built in the 13th century and transformed in baroque forms several centuries later (its name was given to another church built in the beginning of the 20th...
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 CHURCH OF S. MARIA DEL POPOLO
The church grew out of a chapel built here by Pascal II in 1099 over the tombs of the Domitia family, which were believed to be the haunt of demons, because Nero was buried there. The origin of the name is not certain, and one of the versions is the ...
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 CHURCH OF S. MARIA DELLA PACE
This beautiful church and the space around it were created by initiative of Sixtus IV in 1480-1484 in the moment of grave political and religious threat for the peace on the territory of Italy, shaken by the Florentinian plot of the Pazzi and aggress...
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 CHURCH OF S. MARIA DI MONSERRATO
Construction of the church was began in 1518 by A.da Sangallo the Younger for the Confraternity of S.Maria di Monserrato (the famous Spanish sanctuary), founded by pope Alexander VI in 1495. The church was erected on the site of two previous hospita...
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 CHURCH OF S. MARIA IN DOMNICA
The church grew from an oratory of ancient diacony, i.e. center of religious and public assistance, which was built over another public construction that might had been the military barracks. The church was mentioned for the first time in the end of ...
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 CHURCH OF S. MARIA NOVA
After the earthquake in the middle of the 9th century which destroyed S.Maria Antiqua in the Forum, it was abandoned and its diaconate moved to the Oratory of St peter and St Paul, built in 757-767 by pope St.Paul I. Thus, the oratory became the chur...
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 CHURCH OF S. OMOBONO
The church is located in the zone of a very ancient sacred area previously occupied by temples dating from the Royal epoch (9th-8th centuries b.C.), with traces of human life dating from 1500 b.C.. It was reconstructed by Corporation of Tailors in 15...
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 CHURCH OF S. PRISCA
The church was erected in the end of the 4th century-beginning of the 5th century on the site of the House of Aquila and Prisca, celebrated husband and wife, who hosted St Peter in their "ecclesia domestica" where apostle baptized different people. T...
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 CHURCH OF S. SABA
According to a legend the church grew on the site of cenoby in which the mother of St Gregory I Magno, St Silvia, lived and from where she would daily send to her son living on Celio Hill, the vegetable dishes picked and prepared by herself.
But ac...
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 CHURCH OF S. SALVATORE IN LAURO
The name of the church reminds about the former look of this zone all covered by little forest of bay-trees (lauro) in the epoch of its construction. The church is documented since 1117, it was reconstructed in 1449 by cardinal Latino Orsini and entr...
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 CHURCH OF S. SALVATORE IN ONDA
This little church is documented since 1127, but had lost its original aspect because of continuous restorations (the last one took place in 1845 and in 1877, by Luca Carimini). It conserved the three original naves of basilican plan with the columns...
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 CHURCH OF S. SEBASTIANO AL PALATINO
The church was founded in the 10th century and was also called in the past S.Maria in Pallara. Nevertheless, the present name of the church was given to it in honour of the martyr Sabastiano, imperial officer, who died in the not far Ippodromo. A mon...
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 CHURCH OF S. SILVESTRO IN CAPITE
The church was built by pope Stephen II in the 8th century on the ruins of the Temple of the Sun erected here by Aurelian in 273 A.D. The present look of the construction was created in 1594 in course of complete reconstruction by F.da Volterra and C...
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 CHURCH OF S. STEFANO ROTONDO
This church doesn't have any other construction, adapted for religious needs, similar to it in Rome; its complex design was probably taken from eastern models or from the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as well as ancient Roman buildings. ...
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 CHURCH OF S. TEODORO
This small round domed construction is supposed to be built during the period of Byzantine influence in Rome, according to a dedication to the saint soldier Teodoro from the Eastern Empire. The church was built over the “Horrea Agrippiana”, the grea...
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 CHURCH OF SS. COSMA & DAMIANO
It was also called "Basilica del beato Felice" because was built by pope St Felix IV in 527 in a hall of the Foro della Pace. The church was dedicated to two brothers from Cilicia who were miraculous healers. The church was completely reconstructed i...
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 CHURCH OF SS. MARTINA & LUCA
This church was built over the other lower church dedicated to S.Martina and built in the 6th century inside of the constructions annexed to the ancient Curia of Senators. Sixtus V in 1588 gave the church to the Accademia di S.Luca, a corporation of ...
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 CHURCH OF SS. NEREO & ACHILLEO
The church grew on the site of the 4th century Oratory of the Fasciola, named from the bandage which was supposed to have fallen from the wounds of St Peter after his escape from the Mamertine prison. In 524 the oratory was transformed into a church ...
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 CHURCH OF SS. QUATTRO CORONATI
The name of the church refers to some stories about four martyrs that could be or a group of sculptors from the Roman province of Pannonia near the Danube martyred by Diocletian because of refuse to sculpture pagan divinity of Aesculapius, or a group...
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 CHURCH OF ST. CATERINA FROM SIENA
This church was built on the site of the old "castrum senese", center of financial and commercial activity of the Sienese people in Rome. Their arch-confraternity was founded in 1519 and the first oratory was erected right here and dedicated to the...
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 CHURCH OF ST. ELIGIO DEI FERRARI
The church was built in 1562 over the site of the medieval Chiesetta di S.Giacomo d'Altopasso, by the Arch-confraternity of S.Eligio. In 1453 Nicolas V rearranged the Organization of Iron Smiths (Universita dei Ferrari) and gave it this church with t...
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 CHURCH OF ST. MARIA DELLA VALLICELLA
The second name of the church ("New Church") was given to distinguish it from a previous Chiesa di S.Maria in Vallicella, which was destroyed together with the other two churches. "Vallicella" refers to the subsidence of the ground in this zone.
Th...
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 CHURCH OF ST. MARY IN COSMEDIN
Cosmedin comes from the Greek word "Kosmidion", meaning lovely, and describes the spectacular decoration of what was originally called "S.Maria in Schola Graeca", built on the ruins of a 3rd c. chapel; those ruins were incorporated in the 6th c. into...
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 CHURCH S. AGNESE IN AGONE
The owner of this church is the Pamphili family, because first it was conceived as a chapel of their palace with the inner entrance. It was begun by Girolamo and Carlo Rainaldi in 1652 and was continued by Borromini, who created the concave facade, t...
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 CHURCH S. ANASTASIO
This Greek-Catholic church was erected in 1580-1583 by G.Della Porta. It has a simple facade and two twin bell-towers. It is connected by an overpass with a College of Catholic Greeks founded in 1580 by Gregory XIII. Interior is simple with lacunar c...
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 CHURCH S. ANDREA DELLA VALLE
Before the construction of the church S.Andrea della Valle this place was occupied by a little Chiesetta di S.Sebastiano, which probably was built in memory of a fact that the body of this saint-martyr was found in a sewer of this zone. In 1582 the P...
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 CHURCH S. ANDREA DELLE FRATTE
It was built in 1612 on the site of older church (12th century), which in the 15th century became a national church of Scots. In 1585 it was given to the monks from the monastery of Minims of St Francis of Paola at nearby Trinita' dei Monti. The marq...
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 CHURCH S. BARTOLOMEO DEI BERGAMASCHI
Starting from 1725 the church and annexed construction became a seat of "national" confraternity of people from Bergamo. In 1731-1735 a general reconstruction took place, the project was by G.Valvassori. The aspect of the church is simple as outside,...
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 CHURCH S. CLAUDIO
It was also called Chiesa dei SS.Claudio e Andrea dei Borgognoni. Starting from the 17th century the colony from Burgundy was concentrated in this zone, as the nearby street named after Burgundy (Via Borgognona) proves. They had a chapel and a hospic...
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 CHURCH S. EUSTACHIO
According to a tradition it was founded on the site of the house and martyrdom of S.Eustachio, a noble Roman man, who converted into Christian religion because once during a hunt saw a deer with a cross on its head. So, the symbol of a deer's head wi...
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 CHURCH S. GIACOMO DEGLI SPAGNOLI
The old church S.Giacomo degli Spagnoli, built here before the Jubilee of 1450 on the site of Oratory of St Andrew, bears now the name of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore. Together with the annexed constructions served as the hospice, the Chiesa di S...
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 CHURCH S. GIACOMO IN AUGUSTA
Originally it was a little church of a hospital, but in the end of the 16th century it was reconstructed and enlarged. The facade was begun by F.da Volterra and finished by C.Maderno in 1600. Interior of the church on elliptical plan was realized by ...
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 CHURCH S. GIROLAMO DEGLI ILLIRICI
Starting from the 15th century in Borghi district a colony of refugies from Illiric-Croatian lands was settled. They left their country running away from Turks. Their congregation obtained a Chiesetta di S.Marina in 1453 close to the port of Ripetta....
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 CHURCH S. IGNAZIO
It was erected by Jesuits on the site of previous Chiesetta dell'Annunziata, which was also built by Jesuits in 1562-1564, with the help of cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi. The new church served the needs of students' community of the adjoining Collegio R...
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 CHURCH S. LORENZO IN LUCINA
It was built in the 4th-5th centuries on the site of the house of matron Lucina. In the beginning of the 12th century the church was reconstructed by order of Pascal II. The portico with six Ionic columns and a bell-tower of present church remained i...
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 CHURCH S. LUIGI DEI FRANCESI
In the end of the 15th century the French people transferred here the center of their assistance activity. Previously it was located in the church named at present Chiesa del Sudario, not far away. The church of St Louis was founded in 1518 and finis...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA DEI MIRACOLI
The church was erected in 1664-1679 by C.Rainaldi to preserve a miraculous image of Madonna, which was found on the wall close to Porta del Popolo and placed in a little oratory close to Tiber in 1325. The church has a central plan and two chapels on...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA DELLA MADDALENA
St Camillo de'Lellis, a soldier, who for many years assisted the sick people in the Roman Hospital S.Giacomo degli Incurabili and founded a Congregation "Ministri degli Infermi", obtained from the Confraternity of Gonfalone in 1585 a 15th century ora...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA DELLA QUERCIA
Julius II gave permission to the colony from Viterbo which occupied this part of the zone to build a church dedicated to Madonna under the title of Sanctuary della Quercia, located close to Viterbo. The heraldic symbol of the pope was the oak-tree, i...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA DELL'ANIMA
This is a national Catholic church of Germans. It was erected in the middle of the vast property of the German colony in Rome: hospices, hospitals, inns and private houses. The church and its hospice were begun after the Jubilee of 1350 on the site o...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA IN AQUIRO
It was erected on the site of the ancient Roman Temple of Matidia, mother of the wife of emperor Hadrian, Giulia Sabina. The first news about this church are from 731-742, when the restoration works were executed by order of Gregory III. The origins ...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA IN CAMPO MARZIO
The church was probably built in the 7th century, but was completely reconstructed in present form on a Greek-cross plan in 1685 by G.A.De Rossi. It has a little courtyard-cloister created at the same time with a little 1577 fountain in the middle, a...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA IN MONTESANTO
The church was built in 1662-1679 on the site of the other church, which belonged to Carmelites from Monte Santo in Sicily. It has an elliptical plan with three chapels on each side and a dome. On the high altar is a painting of Vergine di Montesanto...
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 CHURCH S. MARIA SOPRA MINERVA
It grew out from an oratory built over the ancient Temple of Minerva Calcidica before the 9th century A.D., and in 1280 was assigned to the Dominicans by Nicolas III. Thus, it became a center of Dominican activity in Rome, which was supporting the st...
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 CHURCH S. ROCCO
The church belongs to the Confraternity of Innkeepers and Boatmen of Ripetta, which built it in 1499. It was dedicated to the French St Rocco, who lived in the 14th century in Rome and helped people dying from the Black Death. The building was recons...
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 CHURCH S. SALVATORE DELLE COPPELLE
It was built in 1195 by pope Celestine III. In the Middle Ages it was also named Chiesa di S.Salvatore della Pieta', because the name of "Pieta' " was used a lot for the constructions in this zone in that epoch. It derived from an arch, which was loc...
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 CHURCH S. SISTO VECCHIO
The church existed already in the 5th century and was restored by Innocent III in the beginning of the 13th century. It was the first Roman convent of St Dominic, but later the saint moved to the church of S.Sabina in 1221, and he founded here the fi...
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 CHURCH SS GIVANNI & PETRONIO
The church was erected on the site of the other ancient church Chiesa di S.Tommaso de Hispanis, existed here since 1186 and named in the 16th century "della catena" ("of the chain"), because it was a seat of a confraternity which used the chains to "...
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 CHURCH SS. AMBROGIO & CARLO
Popularly the church is named Chiesa di S.Carlo al Corso. It is a "national" church of Lombards in Rome, built on the site of previous little medieval church of S.Nicola de Tofo. It was assigned to the Confraternity of Lombards by Sixtus IV as a sign...
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 CHURCH ST. MARIA DELL'ORAZIONE E MORTE
The church was founded and built in 1576 by the Compagnia della buona morte, a confraternity born in 1535 to pick the bodies of dead people that were abandoned. In 1732-1737 F.Fuga, a member of the Compagnia, erected a new church, which was heavily r...
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 CHURCH ST. SPIRITO DEI NAPOLETANI
A little church of S.Aurea with the annexed to it convent passed to a just established Confraternity of Neapolitans in 1574. They built a bigger church in 1619 designed by O.Mascherino; it was reconstructed by C.Fontana in 1700. Unfortunately its con...
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 CHURCH TRINITA' DEI MONTI
The church was begun in 1493 by Louis XII and was finished many decades later, partly due to a damage brought in 1527 by the sack of Rome. Many French personalities had sponsored construction of this French church on the territory of Rome, as well as...
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 CHURCH TRINITA' DEI PELLEGRINI
S.Filippo Neri founded in 1548 the Arch-brotherhood of Pilgrims and of Convalescents with a specific goal to arrange the growing crowds of pilgrims arriving to Rome, especially during the Holy Years. Confraternity began its activity in 1550 and was ...
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 CIRCUS MAXIMUS
The holding capacity for the Circus Maximus was a quarter of a million people! This was about one quarter of Rome's population.
The Circus Maximus was a track used primarily for horse-racing, although it was used on occasion for hunts or mock battle...
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 COLOSSEUM
The Colosseum, in the valley between the Palatine, Esquiline, and Celian Hills, is now the emblem of Rome. Despite much demage by fires, earthquakes, and looting, it has suvived the centuries, and is still impressive today for its literally colossal ...
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 COLUNM OF TRAJAN
This column was erected in 113 A.D. and the frieze on it illustrates the course of war against the Dacians on the territory of modern Romania. The column is made of a series of 18 marble drums ending with the Doric capital. Inside of it are 185 steps...
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 CORDONATA STEPPED RAMP
In the ancient epoch the way leading to the Capitoline Hill was made of step slope of a rock, on which a group of houses stood. The side street Via delle Tre Pile was open in 1692 by Innocent XII Pignatelli. The so called House of Michelangelo was lo...
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 CURIA JULIA
The big stone construction of Curia Julia was brought to the light in 1930's, after the 7th century church of St. Adriano, erected over it, was destroyed.
Caesar built it to substitute the Curia Hostilia which was destroyed by a fire. Curia Julia w...
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