Santa Maria della Pace Rome Building
Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, northeast of Piazza Navona. Historic Roman church building in the centre of the city (Campus Martius), including the beautiful Bramante Cloister.
Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, northeast of Piazza Navona. Historic Roman church building in the centre of the city (Campus Martius), including the beautiful Bramante Cloister.
St Mary of the Angels Rome. Location: Piazza della Republicca, northeast Rome, part created from Diocletian Baths, complex history/dates. Involvement of Michelangelo and Vanvitelli.
In the portico of the church, on the north side, can be found La Bocca della Verità, an ancient sculpture thought to be a drain covering.
A church was initially planned when Donna Costanza Piccolomini d’Aragona, duchess of Amalfi and descendant of the family of Pope Pius II, bequeathed her palace and the adjacent church of San Sebastiano in central Rome to the Theatine order for construction of a new church.
The Church of Saint Andrew’s at the Quirinal (Italian: Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Latin: S. Andreae in Quirinali) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, Italy, built for the Jesuit seminary on the Quirinal Hill.
The construction the church was funded by Guillaume d’Estouteville, Archbishop of Rouen and Cardinal Camerlengo (1477-1483).
Beatufiul baroque church famous for its complex interior domes and also for its flowing facade. It features in many histories of World Architecture.
This Rome church, also called Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari (“Saints Blaise and Charles in Catinari”) is an early-Baroque style church building. It is located on Piazza Benedetto Cairoli.
History: formed within the outline of an old stadium, similar to the Circus Maximus ie long shape with semicircular ends for chariot racing and other sports.
Piazza della Republicca, Location: northeast Rome, Date built: porticos around the piazza, built in 1887–98, designed by Gaetano Koch.
This is a large urban square in Rome, just north of the city centre. It can be visited midway between St Peters/Vatican and the Roman Forum/centre of town.
This public space in the heart of the Italian capital city is located at the center of the Rione of Colonna in the historic heart of Rome, Italy, including Palazzo di Montecitorio built: 1650-97 to designs by Bernini and Carlo Fontana.
The mausoleum was one of the first projects initiated by Augustus in the City of Rome following his victory at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.
Key feature: oculus – the circular hole in the middle of the coffered, concrete dome – that allows a mesmerising disk of light to rotate around the inner dome (when the sun shines of course).
The balcony facing the square is infamous for the Mussolini speech towards the end of the Second World War. The building contains San Marco.
This historic building is a Renaissance palace in Rome, Italy. The palace was designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi in 1532-1536 on a site of three contiguous palaces owned by the old Roman Massimo family.
The Palace of Justice, Rome, is the seat of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Judicial Public Library. It fronts onto the Piazza dei Tribunali, the Via Triboniano, the Piazza Cavour, and the Via Ulpiano. The huge building is popularly called in Italian the Palazzaccio (the bad Palace).
The Quirinal Palace is a historic building in Rome, Italy, one of the three current official residences of the President of the Italian Republic, together with Villa Rosebery in Naples and Tenuta di Castelporziano in Rome.