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LINKS TO CHURCHES OF ROME PAGES
This list and associated links
shows the main Rome churches visited in 2005 and 2006. They are
shown roughly in geographical groupings - though sometimes it's quite big
scale geography, and the Dom was never very good at geography in the
first place. The groupings will be amended and improved as time goes by
- let us know if there are any glaring geographic problems. Photo links
will be added below as the Paradox finally gets stuck into his frighteningly
large Rome photographic
inventory! Meantime here are links to a couple of overview pages
from 2005 of photos
of Roman churches and
their art. There are also quite a few photos from October
2006 in
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VATICAN
QUIRINALE
CAMPO MARZIO
PIAZZA DEL
POPOLO & CORSO
OUTSIDE THE WALLS
(FUORI LE MURA) - SOUTH WEST
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TRASTEVERE & THE JANICULUM
ESQUILINE HILL
LATERAN
CELEAN HILL
AVENTINE HILL
OUTSIDE THE WALLS (FUORI
LE MURA) - NORTH EAST
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Link to the
original churches of Rome page from our 2005 Spring visits.
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* A large number of the Churches of Rome are on sites occupied
by churches and temples for a long time. The churches asterisked
below
contain some significant early and early medieval Christian features
(especially mosaics) which are
still visible.
The seven churches it is necessary to visit for a full
indulgence in a Jubilee Year. Also a Patriarchal
Basilica.
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the
Dom's favourites.
Visited - link to Paradoxplace photo page
Visited - photos in the pipeline
( ) not yet visited
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VATICAN
San Pietro in Vaticano (with
☼☼☼
Michelangelo's Pieta)
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TRASTEVERE
& THE JANICULUM
☼☼☼Santa Maria in Trastevere
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San Crisogono
in Trastevere
San Francesco a Ripa
(with
☼☼
an ecstatic
Beata
Lodovica Albertoni by Bernini)
☼☼Santa Cecilia *
(San Pietro in Montorio (including
Bramante's Tempietto))
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QUIRINALE
Santa Maria della
Vittoria (with
☼☼
an ecstatic Bernini Santa Teresa)
☼Santa Susanna *
(Cistercian Nunnery)
☼☼San Carlo alle
Quattro Fontane (Borromini masterwork)
San Andrea al Quirinale (Bernini masterwork)
☼San Vitale
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ESQUILINE HILL
☼☼☼ Santa Maria
Maggiore
*
☼☼☼Triumphal Arch Mosaics (c430)
☼☼Nave Mosaics (c430)
☼☼☼Santa Prassede *
☼Santa Pudenziana *
(the oldest church mosaic)
Santa Bibiana
(Bernini's first church job)
SS Silvestro e
Martino al Monte
San Pietro in Vincoli
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CAMPO MARZIO
☼Gesu
SantAndrea della
Valle (setting for Act I of Tosca)
☼☼Pantheon - Santa Maria ad Martyres
☼☼☼Santa Maria sopra Minerva
(Dominican, Gothic
& a wealth of stuff)
Sant'Ignazio di Loyola a
Campo Marzio
Sant'Eustachio
Sant'Agnese in Agone
☼☼Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
(Borromini's University Church)
Sant'Agostino
(with
☼☼
a Caravaggio)
Santa Maria Maddalena
San Luigi di Francesi
(with
☼☼☼
3 Caravaggios)
☼Chiesa Nuova
San Giovanni dei Fiorentini |
LATERAN
San Giovanni in Laterano *
(tomb of Innocent III)
(San Giovanni in Fonte - Baptistery *)
(Santa Croce in
Gerusalemme )
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CELEAN HILL
☼San Clemente *
☼☼Santi Quattro Coronati
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☼☼Santa Maria in Domnica
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Santo Stefano Rotondo
Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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PIAZZA DEL
POPOLO & CORSO
☼☼Santa Maria del Popolo
(with
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2
Caravaggios and other good stuff))
Santa Maria
dei Miracoli
Santa Maria
in Montesanto
San Silvestro in Capite
San Lorenzo in Lucina
Santi Apostoli (Franciscan)
(San Marco)
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AVENTINE HILL
Santa Maria in Cosmedin
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Santa Sabina *
Cavalieri di Malta
(keyhole view of Saint Peters)
Sant'Alessio
Sant'Anselmo |
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OUTSIDE THE WALLS
(FUORI LE MURA) - SOUTH WEST
San Paolo fuori le Mura *
☼☼☼San
Paolo Cloisters
(San Saba *)
(San Giovanni a Porta Latina
*)
(San Sebastiano )
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OUTSIDE THE WALLS
(FUORI
LE MURA) - NORTH EAST
☼☼Sant'Agnese
fuori le Mura * (church and early Christian catacombs)
☼☼Santa Costanza *
(mausoleum of Constantine's daughters Constantia and Helen)
☼☼☼San Lorenzo fuori le
Mura *
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Visited - link to Paradoxplace photo page
Visited - photos in the pipeline
( ) not yet visited
☼
☼ ☼
the
Dom's favourites.
* A large number of the Churches of Rome are on sites occupied
by churches and temples for a long time. The churches asterisked
above
contain some significant early and early medieval Christian features
(especially mosaics) which are
still visible.
The seven churches it is necessary to visit for a full
indulgence in a Jubilee Year. Also a Patriarchal
Basilica.
Art
in Roman Churches
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THE TOSCA TRAIL
"Tosca, mi fai
dimenticare Iddio!" "Tosca, you made me forget
God" laments Scarpia at the end of Act I of Paradox's favourite Opera,
set in the huge domed basilica of
Sant'Andrea della Valle.
In 1992 there was a magnificent production of Tosca,
which was broadcast live from
Sant'Andrea della Valle (Act I), the
Palazzo Farnese
(Act II) and the
Castel Sant'Angelo (Act III) over a period of 24 hours.
We have it on VHS tape (remember them?) and it is absolutely worth
making a special effort to find.
Also shown below is the
remastered 1953 Callas / di Stefano / Gobbi / de Sabata
recording at La Scala, Milan, which is special not just because it captured Callas at the
top of her career singing the part that was "hers", but because there
is a rarely found acoustic magic in the recording - we have the earlier mono version and feel no need to go
for digital remastering!
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THE ANGELS AND DEMONS TRAIL
work in progress
The Pantheon
Santa Maria del Popolo
Santa Maria della
Vittoria
Piazza Navona
Sant'Agnese in Agone
San Pietro in Vaticano
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