Churches and Basilicas of Rome | Religious Itineraries

religious itineraries

A pilgrimage is a journey made for devotion, or spiritual penance to a place considered sacred.
The Jubilee of 1300 determines the value of the pilgrimage to Rome. The Via Francigena, also called via Romea, was the road that from Rome, the holy city, brought the pilgrims through the Central and Western Europe.
Already the Lombards, in the seventh century, used this way (which then runs for a stretch along the ancient Via Cassia), to move down Italy, but over time it became clear its function of communication route from the center of Christianity, Rome, to Jerusalem.

The itineraries of the major pilgrimages (Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela, Rome, Canterbury, S. Michele Arcangelo in Puglia, etc) are important for their sanctuaries and monasteries.

• Patriarchal basilicas

• Minor basilicas

• Churches and art

• Sanctuary of Divino Amore

• Sanctuary of Lazio

• Abbeys of Lazio

• Synagogue

CHIESE E ARTE

Via Sicilia Churches

The Holy Redeemer Church and the Missionary Sisters Nunnery were built in 1906 in the area where a pool “in opus latericium” and a mosaic pavement portraying Venus were found. The deconsecrated church of San Lorenzo from Brindisi of Gian Battista Milani was built in 1910 in Romanic – Lombard style and is now a congress room. In the area where was built the Evangelic – Luteran Church between 1910 and 1922, a 13 m obelisk was found in the Eighteenth Century. It was erected between 280 and 165 b.C. in the private hippodrome of the Villa of Sallustius and then brought by Pope Pius VI in Trinità dei monti. The pink marble base remained in Ludovisi’s estate until the sharing out of 1890 when it was given to the town council. 36 years later it was exhibited in the Campidoglio Garden as “Fascist Martyrs Altar” and it is still “temporarily” located there from the fall of the Regime.

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Santa Maria in Monticelli
00186 Roma
via di Santa Maria in Monticelli, 28

Santa Maria in Trivio
00187 Roma
piazza dei Crociferi, 49

Santa Maria in Via Lata
00186 Roma
via del Corso, 306

Santa Maria Maddalena in Campo Marzio
00186 Roma
piazza della Maddalena, 53

Santa Maria Nova - Santa Francesca Romana al Palatino
00186 Roma
piazza di Santa Francesca Romana, 4

Santa Maria Odigitria al Tritone
00187 Roma
via del Tritone, 82

Santa Maria sopra Minerva
00186 Roma
via del Beato Angelico, 35

Santa Prassede all’Esquilino
00184 Roma
via di Santa Prassede, 9/a

Santa Pudenziana al Viminale
00184 Roma
via Urbana, 160

Santa Rita in Campitelli
00186 Roma
via Montanara, 8

Santa Sabina all’Aventino
00153 Roma
piazza Pietro d’Illiria, 1

Santa Sofia
00166 Roma
via Boccea, 478

Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano
00187 Roma
via XX settembre, 14

Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso
00186 Roma
via del Corso, 437

Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Celio
00184 Roma
piazza San Gregorio, 1

Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio all’Aventino
00153 Roma
piazza Sant’Alessio, 23

Santi Celso e Giuliano
00186 Roma
vicolo del Curato, 12

Santi Claudio e Andrea dei Borgognoni
00187 Roma
via del Pozzetto, 160

Santi Cosma e Damiano in Via Sacra
00186 Roma
via dei Fori Imperiali, 1

Santi Domenico e Sisto
00184 Roma
largo Angelicum, 1

Santi Gioacchino e Anna ai Monti
00184 Roma
via Monte Polacco, 5

Santi Gioacchino e Paolo al Celio
00184 Roma
piazza dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, 13

Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio dei Bolognesi
00186 Roma
via del Mascherone, 61

Santi Luca e Martina al Foro Romano
00186 Roma
via della Curia, 2

Santi Nereo ed Achilleo alle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Roma
viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 28

Santi Quattro Coronati al Laterano
00184 Roma
via dei Santi Quattro, 20

Santi Quirico e Giulietta
00184 Roma
via di Tor de’ Conti, 31/a

Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Fontana di Trevi
00187 Roma
vicolo dei Modelli, 73

Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
00187 Roma
piazza Trinità dei Monti, 3

Santissime Stimmate
00186 Roma
largo delle Stimmate, 1

Santissimo Crocifisso alla Stazione Termini
00185 Roma
Stazione Termini

Santissimo Nome di Gesù all’Argentina
00186 Roma
piazza del Gesù

Santissimo nome di Maria al Foro Traiano
00187 Roma
foro Traiano, 89

Santissimo Sudario all’Argentina
00186 Roma
via del Sudario, 47

Santo Spirito dei Napoletani
00186 Roma
via Giulia, 34

Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio
00184 Roma
via di Santo Stefano Rotondo

Santo Stefano del Cacco
00186 Roma
via di Santo Stefano del Cacco, 26

Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio
00184 Roma
via di Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio

San Gioacchino

The church was built from 1898 to 1911, designed by R. Inganni, to be donated by Catholics to Gioacchino Pecci, Pope Leo XIII, with a dedication to his Holy protector.
The three naves are entitled to the respective nations that have funded the project. These are distinguished by 13 columns of red granite and are accessed by its three-door wooden. The two columns of the central door were donated by the Zar.

Chiesa Valdese

Piazza Cavour

The broad facade of the church is completed by two tall bell towers. It was built in 1914 designed by the Architect Bonci. Seat of Valdese Theological Faculty, whose entrance in Via Pietro Crossa is characterized by two columns

Santa Maria della Concezione

The church said of the Capuchin, for the convent that was attached before the opening of Via Veneto, was built in 1630 by Antonio Casoni on behalf of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, brother of Pope Urban VIII.
The simple facade not properly notice what there are exposed inside: in the nave, there are the works of famous authors such as Domenichino, Caravaggio, Guido Reni and Giovanni Lanfranco.

The New Church

The New Church (Santa Maria in Vallicella) of the sixteenth century is the last resting place of Saint Philip Blacks. It is flanked by the “Oratorio of Filippini”, one of the most interesting works of Francesco Borromini.

Sant'Agnese in Agone

Sant'Agnese in Agone in Piazza Navona was begun in 1652 by Rainaldi and later supplemented by Borromini.

Sant'Andrea della Valle

Sant'Andrea della Valle was designed and built by Pier Paolo Olivieri, Francesco Grimaldi, and Carlo Maderno between 1590 and 1650. The nearby “Palazzo Valle” gave the name of the church. The baroque facade was added between 1655 and 1663 by Carlo Rainaldi.

Santa Maria del Popolo

Santa Maria del Popolo is built on the site where Nero died and was buried. The church was built under Pope Sixtus IV. In the kiosk Augustinian stayed Martin Luther during his youthful years spent in Italy. The church contains masterpieces by Caravaggio and Bernini.

The Jesus

The Jesus is the prototype of the baroque church. It is located where, in 1556, died the founder of the Jesuits, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The tomb of the Saint is located in the left transept. The gold decorations of the altar surrounding one of the largest known piece of lapis lazuli, a globe kept by an angel.
The fresco in the ceiling of the nave shows a perspective, the “Glory of the name of Jesus " and has influenced the style throughout Europe.
In the right transept there is the mummified arm of St. Francis Xavier, one of the original members of the Jesuit missionary and the first to come up in the Far East.

Sant'Ignazio di Loyola

St. Ignatius was begun in 1627 and completed in 1685 as the second Jesuit church. Surprising are the prospects of the frescoes of the Jesuit Andrea Pozzo, which must be observed from the point marked on the ground (from every other point the prospects are distorted).
The deception of optical spherical dome painted, but in fact completely flat, still amazes visitors. The Square, in front of the church, built in Rococo style in the eighteenth century by Filippo Raguzzini.

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (also known as San Carlino), was built by Borromini between 1638 and 1663. The church is located near the intersection of Via delle Quattro Fontane with Via del Quirinale and Via XX Settembre. From this junction you can see three of the many obelisks in Rome: one in the Piazza del Quirinale, one in front of the Spanish Steps and one in front of Santa Maria Maggiore. In the four corners of the crossroad there are the fountains that give the name of the road.

Sant'Andrea al Quirinale

Sant'Andrea al Quirinale is a work of Bernini in the years between 1658 and 1671. The small church is a Baroque jewel

Santa Maria della Vittoria

St. Mary of Victory - Via XX Settembre - was built from 1605 to 1625. In the magnificent baroque church there is the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, by Bernini.

San Giorgio al Velabro

San Giorgio in Velabro is a basilica church in Rome, devoted to St. George and located on the ancient Roman Velabrum, near the Arch of Janus, in the rione of Ripa. The current basilica was built during the 7th century, possibly by Pope Leo II.

San Clemente al Laterano

San Clemente, near the Colosseum, was built in the twelfth century on a basilica that was destroyed in 1084.
The choir is still the one of the oldest church; the medieval mosaic of the apse is partly of the old one. In the crypt below, which is decorated with magnificent frescoes and Cosmati floors, you can get off in the foundations of the first Christian church in which there are the remains of a Roman house of the second century.

San Pietro in Vincoli
a Colle Oppio

San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains) is a basilica in Rome, best known for being the home of Michelangelo's magnificent statue of Moses. Under the altar are kept the chains (bonds) with which Saint Peter was chained. The building dates back to 455 but it stands on a previous construction of the second century.

Sant'Agostino

St. Augustine, between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon, with its marvellous Renaissance façade miraculously escaped to baroque tampering. It contains below the main altar, the tomb of the mother of St. Augustine, St. Monica, died in Ostia, one fresco attributed to Raphael and the famous Madonna dei Pellegrini of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

San Luigi dei Francesi

St. Louis of the French, the French national church in Rome, inaugurated in 1589, lodges three famous paintings by Caravaggio, among which stands out the Vocation of St. Matthew. The Renaissance facade was designed by Giacomo Della Porta.

Chiesa di Dio padre MIsericordioso

The Church of God the Merciful Father (also called the Church of the Jubilee) is located in the neighborhood Tor Tre Teste (between Via Casilina and Via Prenestina) and was built on project of the American Architect Richard Meier. The church was opened in 2003. The construction of the church is the result of a program of the Diocese of Rome to provide, even the remote areas of the city, with sacred buildings suitable and of high quality architecture.

Chiesa Gran Madre di Dio

The church of Gran Madre di Dio overlook to the large square of Ponte Milvio. Built in the first 30 years of the twentieth century was consecrated in 1933. It is a church surmounted by a large dome. Cardinal title since 1965.