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Emmanuel II. Begun in 1885 and completed completed and 1885 in Begun II. Emmanuel
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3 4 18 14 5 12 23 CHIESA NUOVA 21 PALAZZO DEL QUIRINALE Construction of Santa Maria in Vallicella 13 (better known as Chiesa Nuova) was begun 8 A palace built on the highest part of the Quirinal in 1575 by St. Philip Neri (1515-1595). The Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome. A magnificent Renaissance villa with gardens, it adjacent Oratory and Convent were designed 19 by the architect Borromini and started in was built on the ruins of an older building and 17 was soon an object of desire of the popes who 1600. The church, dedicated to the Virgin 15 16 Mary,holds paintings by great artists such as 7 believed that the area was healthier than the Rubens,Reni,Barocci,Pietro da Cortona and Vatican.It remained the main papal residence for Caravaggio.It also houses the remains of St. 9 several centuries and later became the official Philip Neri, known for his ministration to royal residence of the Kings of Italy.The Quirinale pilgrims,children and the poor and ill in the 10 became the residence of the President of Italy not Rome of his day and now co-patron of Rome long after the country became a Republic in with Saints Peter and Paul. One of his most 6 1946. One of joyful creations was the “Visit to the Seven 11 the few resi- Churches”, dences of a an urban head of state pilgrimage that the pu- of great blic can visit. beauty that Open Sunday set off from mornings. this church. SANT’ANDREA DELLA VALLE ARCHIVIO DE "LA SAPIENZA" PANTHEON 20 Construction of the church was begun in The seat of the University of Rome,founded in The world’s best preserved example of Roman MUSEO DI PALAZZO VENEZIA GALLERIA DORIA PAMPHILJ 1591. It was consecrated during the Holy 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII (three years after the monumental architecture. Built by Agrippa in The fortress-palace built around the ruins of an Rome’s largest private art collection Year of 1650.The dome (the highest after St. first Holy Year) was established here in 1557. 27 BC, but attributed to Hadrian (2nd cent. AD) older building in the mid-15th century was comprises furniture, ancient statuary and Peter’s) contains an illusionist fresco with a During the Baroque period, the architect Bor- by some historical sources, it was a temple The score on the “target” of one of Rome’s first palaces with a courtyard, close to 400 paintings. The latter collection perspective from below.Puccini set the first romini transformed the internal courtyard, a dedicated to all the gods. The Pantheon was portico and loggia. Papal residence and includes works by Caravaggio, Flemish every site certified by HERITY act of his “Tosca”at Sant’Andrea (the second rectangular portico, inserting a university transformed into a church in the 7th century embassy of the Republic of Venice (giving the masters and Jan Brueghel the elder,still hung is the result of the assessment and third acts are set in Palazzo Farnese and chapel (Sant’Ivo).Today the church is open for AD, which explains its excellent state of building its name),it was used by Austria and as they were in 1765. The gallery is in the on the terrace of Castel Sant’Angelo). Sunday mass. The university remained there preservation despite repeated pillage. The of site directors, HERITY then returned to Italy after World War I. north-east wing of the huge Doria Pamphilj The angel on the church’s ornate façade until Rome’s new university campus was diameter of the dome, a hemisphere with the experts and the public, i.e. you. It has housed the Museum of Palazzo Venezia palace, built between 1500 and 1800.Today, corresponding symmetrically with the one on completed in 1935. Today, the building hosts monument’s only opening in the center, is with its medieval and Renaissance you can see the dazzling world of Roman If you think that the HERITY the top left corner, is missing. One occasional exhibits and houses the State wider than St.Peter’s.The church contains the collection since 1919.After World War II (when nobility in all its splendour and admire two explanation Archives, a rich collection of documents that sepulchers of Raffaello and Baldassarre Peruzzi. target does not correspond to the museum was closed and special permission authentic masterpieces set side by side: a was that the scholars can The tombs what you saw, feel free to was needed bust and a sculptor was consult. The of the Kings to visit), it portrait of e-mail us at [email protected] and retaliating building also of Italy were reopened as Pope Inno- tell us what you think is better, for criticism contains added after a national cence X, by from his pa- offices of the the Lateran or worse. You’ll help site museum. Bernini and tron. Senate of the Treaty was Velázquez, managers improve and give Republic, signed in respectively. future visitors more accurate closed to the 1929. information. public.