The Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican

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It is one of Rome’s small and charming churches, and like others it has a long history.

The church that today bears his name (together with that of St Andrew) was founded in 575 AD by St Gregory the Great himself who transformed his family home into a monastery.


Dedicated to St Lawrence, the 3rd century deacon and martyr of Rome, the church dominates the Roman Forum and was created in the Middle Ages inside the cell of the temple that the
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It is one of the most ancient Roman churches but it is also invisible from the street.

We know very little about the life of St Lawrence, martyred in Rome on 10 August 258: sources indicate him as archdeacon of Pope Sixtus II, charged among other things with administ
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Located in a small square along via del Corso, in the Rione Trevi, it was one of the first Christian
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Titles, orders and origins; the history of San Nicola dei Prefetti

Overlooking a small square that it shares with the 18th-century Palazzo Braschi, it is one of the place
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The American Episcopal (Anglican) Church is the first non-Catholic place of worship built in Rome after the unification of Italy and the end of the temporal power of the Church whe
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Founded in the 9th century on the site where St.

Dedicated to the Saint of Montpellier, pilgrim and thaumaturgist, the church was built on the initiative of the Confraternity of the Osti and Barcaroli (innkeepers and boatmen) fou
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By casually entering the church, you might perhaps be surprised to discover that an iconostasis (a symbol of the distinction between heaven and earth) separates the sanctuary from
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The church in a small square of the Rione Regola, a short distance from the churches of
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Located on Via XXIV Maggio, the main connection between the Quirinale Palace and via Nazio
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The small church along Via delle Botteghe Oscure, between Piazza Venezia and the
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The church is already documented from the beginning of the 12th century and titled to St Thomas.


Overlooking Via di Parione, which is also the name of the Rome’s Rione to which it belongs, it is one o
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The Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone has already existed since the VII century a.C.



Below and around the remains of the Portico d'Ottavia, dedicated by Emperor Augustus to his sister, a
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