
Churches
Basilica di Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio
"The Basilica of Saints Trifone and Agostino" is a Catholic place of worship located not far from Piazza Navona, in the Sant'Eustachio district, behind Via della Scrofa. The construction of the building dates back to the 14th century, when the Augustinians decided to build a new structure for their convent and to dedicate it to Sant'Agostino. The new construction was too small for the needs of the convent community and moreover, being placed too low with respect to the course of the Tiber river, it was also subject to its floods. Thus, thanks to the munificence of Cardinal... Read more
Chiesa di Sant'Agata dei Goti
The "Church of Sant'Agata dei Goti" is a church located in via Mazzarino, in the Monti district. The church lost the name of the Goths and was called by the people Sant'Agata de caballo, because it was placed at the top of the descent towards the Suburra from "Monte Cavallo", the ancient name of the Quirinal hill, and known until 1922 as Sant'Agata alla Suburra . During the pontificate of Pope Pius XI, the title, while remaining in the church of the Suburra, was renamed "Sant'Agata de 'Goti". The current Sant'Agata dei Goti, under Villa Aldobrandini, is the... Read more
Basilica di San Pietro
"Basilica di San Pietro" it is a Catholic basilica of the Vatican City; symbol of the Vatican State, crowned by the monumental Piazza San Pietro. It is the largest of Rome's four papal basilicas often described as the largest church in the world and center of Catholicism. As a papal chapel, located adjacent to the Apostolic Palace, the basilica of St. Peter is the seat of the main manifestations of Catholic worship and is therefore in solemn function on the occasion of papal celebrations, for example for Christmas, Easter, the rites of Holy Week, the proclamation of new... Read more
San Pietro in Vincoli
"The basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli" is a Catholic place of worship in the historic center of Rome, located in the Monti district, on the Oppio hill; it is also called the Eudossian basilica from the name of the founder, Licinia Eudossia, and is known above all for hosting the tomb of Julius II with the famous Moses by Michelangelo Buonarroti. The basilica is a rectory entrusted by the canons regular of the Lateran Congregation of the Holy Savior and the homonymous title of cardinal insists on it.
Basilica di San Clemente
"The basilica of San Clemente", dedicated to Pope Clement I, rises in the valley between the Esquiline and the Celio, on the route that joins the Colosseum to the Lateran, in the Monti district. It has the dignity of a minor basilica. It is currently governed by the Irish province of the Dominicans. The basilica we see today was built in the 12th century and is connected to the Dominican convent. The complex is of great importance because it is located above ancient underground buildings for two levels of depth, the oldest of which dates back to the 1st... Read more
Basilica e Monastero Agostiniano Santi Quattro Coronati
The "Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati" is part of a Christian complex located in the Roman district of Celio, on the hill of the same name. The names of the four titular saints, according to the Pontificia Academia Cultorum Martyrum, which places a station there on the Monday of the fourth week of Lent, are: Castorio, Sinfroniano, Claudio and Nicostrato, commemorated on November 8. The legend speaks of four Christian marble workers put to death under Diocletian for refusing to sculpt pagan idols, but also of four (or five) soldiers, equally martyred and buried in the tombs of previous... Read more
Basilica di Santa Maria in Montesanto
"Basilica di Santa Maria di Montesanto" is one of the two churches called twin churches, located in Piazza del Popolo. The church on the left (S. Maria in Montesanto) owes its name to the fact that it was built in place of a small church belonging to the Carmelites of the province of Monte Santo in Sicily. Almost all, however, know it as the "Church of the Artists" because, starting from 1953, it became the seat of the so-called Mass of the Artists: for almost 70 years, every Sunday there has been a particular Eucharistic celebration in which exponents... Read more
Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore
"Santa Maria Maggiore" it is one of the four papal basilicas of Rome, located on the top of the Esquiline hill, on the peak of the Cispio, between the Rione Monti and the Esquiline. It is the only basilica in Rome to have preserved the primitive early Christian structure, albeit enriched by later additions.
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
"Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano" it is the cathedral of the diocese of Rome, It is the first of the four major papal basilicas, the oldest and the most important basilica in the West. Located on the Celio hill, the basilica is the material representation of the Holy See, which has its residence here.
Basilica dei Santi Pietro e Paolo
"La Basilica dei Santi Pietro e Paolo" is a Catholic place of worship, located in the EUR. The parish of the same name insists on it, entrusted to the Roman Province of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. The church stands at the highest point of the district, where it is believed that there was an oratory of the Archconfraternity of the Pilgrims dedicated to the two apostles. During the Second World War, construction work slowed down until it was suspended after a bombing that affected some structures in 1943. On 10 September 1943 the construction site of... Read more