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San Giovanni in Laterano Baptistery – a water-filled cradle of Christianity

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Carafa Chapel – a place of Renaissance in every inch

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Cerasi Chapel – a clash of two artistic personalities

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Chigi Chapel – a treasury of esthetic sensations and religious emotions

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Contarelli Chapel – a place, where the surprised Matthew finds his path of life

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Del Monte Chapel – a stylistically balanced and artistically reserved place

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Chapel del Monte di Pietà – a bombastic symbol of the struggle against usury

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Cardinal Bessarion’s Chapel – a posthumous politically-religious message

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Chapel of Martyrdom of St. Peter (Tempietto) – an antique brought back to life

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The Pieta Chapel (Cappella della Pietà) in the Church of San Pietro in Montorio – a breath of fresh air of Dutch art

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Polet Chapel – a monument to the counter-reformation virtues of a French wine merchant

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The Rospigliosi-Pallavicini Chapel – the posthumous chord of a great Roman dynasty

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Spada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated

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Chapel of Saint Hyacintha Marescotti – a place where the senses struggle against virtue

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Church of Dio Padre Misericordioso – a jewel of contemporary architecture in a sea of bleak apartment buildings

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Church of Il Gesù – modesty transformed into lavishness, meaning the stunning salon of the Jesuits

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Church of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re, meaning, the beginning of a new era of sacral architecture

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Church of San Carlo al Corso – grandeur and splendor for an advocate of poverty

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Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane – built out of hope and disappointment

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Church of San Giacomo in Augusta – a pilgrim church for the body and the spirit

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Church of San Girolamo dei Croati – here, where Jerome debates and preaches

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Church of San Lorenzo fuori le mura – a pilgrim basilica of admirable beauty

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Church of San Lorenzo in Fonte – a place of imprisonment and a miraculous conversion

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Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina – where Christ, joyfully floats up into the heavens

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Church of San Lorenzo in Miranda – a saint deacon in a pagan temple

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Church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus – deserted and modernized, yet moving

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Church of San Marcello al Corso – a church filled with beautiful tombstones

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Church of San Marco – where Venetians left their artistic mark

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Church of San Nicola da Tolentino – place, where Augustinians gave out their breads

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Church of San Nicola in Carcere – a church erected on a pagan cult site

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Church of San Pietro in Montorio – a place of artistic and religious contemplation

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Church of San Pietro in Vincoli – a pilgrimage to miraculous chains and a magnificent Moses

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Church of San Rocco – a church of the poor, the sick and the discarded

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Church of San Saba – a place filled with the spirit of the Middle Ages

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Church of San Stefano Protomartire – following in the footsteps of the cult of St. Stephen in Rome

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Church San Stefano Rotondo – a House of God filled with light and suffering

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Church of San Vitale – early Christianity and Jesuit propaganda at the busy via Nazionale

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Church of Sant’Agata dei Goti – a place of heretical services

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Church of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura – a spiritual idyll on the outskirts of the city

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Church of Sant’Agnese in Agone – a theatre of the senses and a mausoleum of memory

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Church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale – the greatest construction of the ingenious Bernini

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Church of Sant’Andrea Catabarbara (nonexistent) – a valuable gift from a barbarian chieftain

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Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle – a foundation full of splendor and elegance

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Church of Sant’Andrea delle Fratte – where posthumously Bernini struggles with Borromini

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Church of Sant’ Apollinare – a church „with a past”

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Church of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola – an area of false impressions and optical illusions

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Church of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza – refined evidence of architectural genius

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Church of Santa Balbina – a breath of antiquity far away from tourist routes

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Church of Santa Bibiana – an oasis of art in the urban jungle

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Church of Santa Caterina da Siena a Magnanapoli – a breath of Bernini’s art

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Church Santa Cecilia – early Middle Ages in a Baroque and rococo sauce

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Church of Santa Constanza (the mausoleum of Constantina) – a little known pearl of early Christian art

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Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli – a church welcoming and guarding pilgrims

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Church of Santa Maria del Popolo – a treasury of art and a mausoleum of family pride

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Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria – Baroque art on the move

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Church of Santa Maria di Loreto – paying a visit to the beautiful martyrs

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Church of Santa Maria in Aquiro – following the imitators and continuators of Caravaggio

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Church of Santa Maria in Cappella – the Middle Ages restored anew

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Church of Santa Maria in Domnica – a place, where the Virgin Mary is held by her foot

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Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato – the final resting place of two popes of famous reputation

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Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto – the guardian of a square, an elegant, harmonious and balanced church

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Church of Santa Maria Portea Paradisi – a place reminiscent of a gate to paradise

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Church of Santa Prisca – a church with a pagan underground and a fascinating Christian patron

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Church of Santa Pudenziana – an encounter with the art of late antiquity

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Church of Santa Sabina – beauty created out of stone, light and prayer

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Church of Santi Cosma e Damiano – famous for its mosaics and saint doctors

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Church of Santi Quattro Coronati – where, a mystic aura of the Middle Ages prevails

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Church of Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria – an emotional theatre of death in a church interior

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San Silvestro Oratory – a propaganda leaflet, or a treatise on political harmony?