This collection gathers churches, palaces, fountains, and squares tied to the Baroque period, with curved façades, illusionistic decoration, and large stage-like spaces. It suits readers who want to understand how architecture and art used the urban space to create visual effects.
Places: Baroque (92)
A Weekend in Rome: What to See in Two DaysA weekend in Rome is, in practice, two full days and two half evenings: if you arrive on Friday evening and leave on Sunday evening you have about…- Accademia Nazionale di San LucaThe gallery of Accademia Nazionale di San Luca is at Piazza dell'Accademia di San Luca 77, 150 meters from the Trevi Fountain, and is open Tuesday…
- Ariccia (RM)Ariccia is the town of the fraschette, one of our favorite destinations in the Castelli Romani for spending a day or an evening with friends withou…
- Baroque Rome: An Itinerary Through Churches, Piazzas and FountainsRoman Baroque is not a list of monuments. It is a system. Between 1623, when Urban VIII Barberini ascends to the papal throne, and 1667, when Alexa…
- Basilica of San CrisogonoThe Basilica of San Crisogono is at Piazza Sidney Sonnino 44, at the start of Viale di Trastevere, at the point where the neighborhood stops being…
- Basilica of San PancrazioThe Basilica of San Pancrazio stands in Piazza di San Pancrazio, on the Janiculum, just past the gate that took its name from the saint and right u…
- Basilica of Sant’EustachioThe Basilica of Sant'Eustachio is less than 100 meters from the Pantheon, in the block between Via della Palombella, Via di Sant'Eustachio and the…
- Basilica of Sant’Agostino in Campo MarzioThe Basilica of Sant’Agostino in Campo Marzio is one of the first great Renaissance churches built in Rome and, in all likelihood, the one with the…
- Basilica of Sant’Andrea della ValleBasilica of Sant’Andrea della Valle - Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 00186 Rome RM
- Basilica of Santa Maria in Via LataThe Basilica of Santa Maria in Via Lata faces Via del Corso, at number 306, wedged between the bulk of Palazzo Doria Pamphilj and the continuous fl…
- Basilica of Santa Maria MaggioreThe Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the four papal basilicas, stands on top of the Esquiline Hill and is the only one to have preserved it…
- Basilica of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al CorsoThe basilica of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso occupies the upper stretch of Via del Corso, at number 437, just before the street opens onto Piazz…
- Basilica of Santi XII ApostoliThe Basilica of Santi XII Apostoli is in Piazza dei Santi Apostoli, a few steps from Piazza Venezia and the Altare della Patria, in the Trevi distr…
- Bassano Romano (VT)Bassano Romano is a village in the Tuscia that you can walk around freely, and its main monument, Villa Giustiniani-Odescalchi in Piazza Umberto I,…
- Bernini in Rome: an itinerary through his worksGian Lorenzo Bernini worked in Rome for almost 60 years, under eight popes, and the result is that today there is no honest way of crossing the cen…
- Biblioteca VallicellianaBiblioteca Vallicelliana
Via della Chiesa Nuova, 18
Rome
One of the most evocative libraries in Rome, on the second floor o…
- Borghese GalleryThe Borghese Gallery is a splendid museum in Villa Borghese Pinciana, one of the most beautiful in Rome, period, thanks to the rich collection on d…
- Borromini in Rome: a route through his architectureFrancesco Borromini built almost only in Rome, in just over 30 years, and left a dozen buildings that are recognizable at a glance even by people w…
- Caravaggio in Rome: where to see his paintingsRome is the city where Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio worked the longest, and it is also the city where today you can see the largest number of…
- Casa delle LetteratureCasa delle Letterature
Piazza dell'Orologio, 3
Rome
- Castel Gandolfo (RM)Castel Gandolfo can be reached from Rome in just under an hour. The regional train on the Roma Termini - Albano Laziale line stops at Castel Gandol…
- Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei PellegriniThe Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini is in the rione Regola, at the corner of Via dei Pettinari and the piazza that bears its name, a…
- Church of San Carlo alle Quattro FontaneThe Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane stands at the crossing that Romans simply call the Quattro Fontane, where Via del Quirinale becomes Vi…
- Church of San Francesco a RipaChurch of San Francesco a Ripa
Piazza di San Francesco d'Assisi,
Roma
Best kept ecclesiastical secret of Trastevere, whic…
- Church of San Marcello al CorsoThe Church of San Marcello al Corso faces a small recessed square along via del Corso, in the Trevi rione, halfway between Palazzo Venezia and the…
- Church of Sant’Ivo alla SapienzaChurch of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza - Corso del Rinascimento, 40, 00186 Roma RM
- Church of Sant’Andrea al QuirinaleThe Church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale is on Via del Quirinale, a few steps from Palazzo del Quirinale and Scuderie del Quirinale, in one of the de…
- Church of Santa Maria della ScalaThe Church of Santa Maria della Scala stands in Piazza della Scala, in the heart of Trastevere, a few dozen meters from the Basilica of Santa Maria…
- Church of Santa RitaChurch of Santa Rita in Campitelli
Via Montanara, 8
Rome
- Church of the GesùThe Church of the Gesù faces a narrow square halfway between Palazzo Venezia and Largo di Torre Argentina, at one of the most crossed and least loo…
- Contarelli ChapelThe Contarelli Chapel, frescoed by Caravaggio, is located in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, which faces the square of the same name,…
- Fontana del MascheroneThe Fontana del Mascherone is in via Giulia, at the corner with via del Mascherone, in the Regola district, a few meters from the Farnese arch and…
- Fontana delle ApiThe Fontana delle Api is at the corner of Piazza Barberini and Via Vittorio Veneto, in the Ludovisi rione, on the sidewalk at the mouth of the stre…
- Fountain of the Four RiversFountain of the Four Rivers - Piazza Navona Rome
- Galleria SpadaGalleria Spada - Piazza Capo di Ferro, 13, 00186 Rome RM
- Garum, Library and Museum of CuisineGarum, Library and Museum of Cuisine - Via dei Cerchi, 87, 00186 Rome RM, Italy
- Gesù e Maria al CorsoThe church of the Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria is at Via del Corso 45, in Rome, in the Campo Marzio district, and it is a rectory entrusted to t…
- Hungarian Academy at Palazzo FalconieriThe Hungarian Academy in Rome is at Via Giulia 1, inside Palazzo Falconieri, and it is a cultural institute of the Hungarian State, not a museum wi…
- Moro FountainThe Moro Fountain closes the south end of Piazza Navona, on the side of Via di Pasquino and of the palace that now houses the Museo di Roma at Pala…
- National Gallery of Ancient Art – Palazzo BarberiniThe collection of the National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini houses works produced between the 13th and 18th centuries, including som…
- Obelisco AgonaleThe Obelisco Agonale is the red granite monolith that rises in the middle of Piazza Navona, planted on the artificial rock of Gian Lorenzo Bernini'…
- Obelisco della MinervaThe Minerva Obelisk is the smallest of Rome's 13 ancient obelisks and, in all likelihood, the most photographed in relation to its height: a red gr…
- Oratorio dei FilippiniAt Oratorio dei Filippini today you go in at three different points and for three different reasons, and none of the three is the oratory hall itse…
- Rome Botanical GardenOrto Botanico di Roma
Largo Cristina di Svezia, 24
Rome
Plants and flowers from all over the world, in what was the ancient…
- Palazzo BarberiniPalazzo Barberini is a palace in Rome that houses part of the important National Gallery of Ancient Art and the Italian Institute of Numismatics.
- Palazzo BonapartePalazzo Bonaparte, the palace that watches Piazza Venezia out of the corner of its eye There are buildings in Rome you walk past absentmindedly, an…
- Palazzo Chigi in AricciaPalazzo Chigi in Ariccia - Piazza di Corte, 14, 00072 Ariccia RM, Italy
- Palazzo Doria PamphiljPalazzo Doria Pamphilj is a monumental building in the heart of Rome, one of the few historic palaces still inhabited, since 1600, by the same anci…
- Piazza BarberiniPiazza Barberini is in Rome, postal code 00187, at the intersection of Via del Tritone, Via Sistina, Via Veneto, Via Barberini and Via delle Quattr…
- Piazza MatteiPiazza Mattei is in the Sant'Angelo rione, in Rome's historic center, between Via dei Funari, Via della Reginella and Via Paganica, a few minutes'…
- Piazza San PietroPiazza San Pietro is the great colonnaded square that stands in front of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini b…
- Ponte Sant’AngeloPhoto: Ruud Koot, CC BY-SA 3.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castel_and_Ponte_Sant%27Angelo_(Rome).JPG) P…
- Porta del PopoloPorta del Popolo is the northern gate of the Aurelian Walls, the ancient Porta Flaminia. For almost 1,800 years it was the entrance to Rome for any…
- Rione Ponte: What to SeeRione Ponte, the fifth of the 22 historic rioni of Rome, occupies the bend of the Tiber in front of Castel Sant'Angelo and is visited on foot, for…
- Roman ForumThe Roman Forum stretches across the valley between the Capitoline Hill, the Palatine and the Velia, and for almost a millennium it was the politic…
- San Carlo ai CatinariSan Carlo ai Catinari is the big Baroque church that closes off the east side of Piazza Benedetto Cairoli, halfway between Campo de’ Fiori and the…
- San Gregorio al CelioSan Gregorio al Celio is the church that closes off, at the top of a monumental staircase, the east side of Piazza di San Gregorio, right opposite…
- San Nicola da TolentinoSan Nicola da Tolentino is at Salita di San Nicola da Tolentino 17, a few minutes on foot from Piazza Barberini, and it is the church of the Pontif…
- San Silvestro in CapiteSan Silvestro in Capite is the church that opens on the north side of Piazza di San Silvestro, one block from Via del Corso and just under 10 minut…
- Sant’Antonio dei Portoghesi ChurchThe Church of Sant'Antonio in Campo Marzio dei Portoghesi is at Via dei Portoghesi 2, in the Campo Marzio district, a few tens of meters from Via d…
- Sant’Ignazio ChurchChiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio - Via del Caravita, 8a, 00186 Roma RM
- Sant’Isidoro a Capo le CaseSant'Isidoro a Capo le Case is at Via degli Artisti 41, in the Ludovisi district, and it is the church of the College of Sant'Isidoro, the Roman ho…
- Sant’Agnese in AgoneSant’Agnese in Agone is the church that closes the west side of Piazza Navona, wedged between the Pamphilj palace and the houses that follow the cu…
- Sant’Andrea delle FratteAt Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, on either side of the high altar, there are two marble angels that Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted with his own hand bet…
- Sant’Onofrio al GianicoloSant’Onofrio al Gianicolo is a 15th-century convent complex facing the street of the same name, halfway up the slope between the Tiber embankment a…
- Santa BibianaSanta Bibiana is a small church, closed almost all the time, at Via Giovanni Giolitti 154, on the east flank of Termini station, squeezed between t…
- Santa BrigidaSanta Brigida is at Piazza Farnese 96, at the corner with Via di Monserrato, and is entrusted to the sisters of the Order of the Most Holy Savior o…
- Santa Caterina da Siena a MagnanapoliSanta Caterina da Siena a Magnanapoli is the Baroque church that closes off the top of the climb of Via Nazionale, at Largo Magnanapoli, beside the…
- Santa Maria del SuffragioSanta Maria del Suffragio is at Via Giulia 59/a, in the Ponte district, and you can walk in freely, with no ticket and no reservation. The listing…
- Santa Maria dell’Orazione e Morte ChurchThe Church of Santa Maria dell’Orazione e Morte, decorated with macabre symbols, is on a very central street of Rome's historic center lined with R…
- Santa Maria della Concezione dei CappucciniSanta Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini is at via Vittorio Veneto 27, about 50 meters from piazza Barberini, and almost nobody goes in. Whoever…
- Santa Maria della PaceSanta Maria della Pace is about 100 meters from piazza Navona, in the Ponte district, and manages the feat of staying invisible to almost everyone…
- Santa Maria della Vittoria ChurchThe Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria is on Via XX Settembre, in the heart of the Sallustiano district, a few steps from the Fountain of Moses a…
- Santa Maria in AquiroSanta Maria in Aquiro opens onto Piazza Capranica, an irregular widening 100 meters from the Chamber of Deputies and 200 from the Pantheon. The two…
- Santa Maria in CampitelliSanta Maria in Campitelli is in Piazza Campitelli, a small and almost always empty square that opens between the Jewish Ghetto of Rome and the clim…
- Santa Maria in Campo MarzioSanta Maria in Campo Marzio is at Piazza in Campo Marzio 45, 200 meters behind the Pantheon and just as far from Montecitorio, and it is today the…
- Santa Maria in MonserratoSanta Maria in Monserrato is the Spanish national church in Rome and stands at Via di Monserrato 115, in the Regola district, halfway between Campo…
- Santa Maria in PublicolisSanta Maria in Publicolis is a small, Baroque and almost always closed church, wedged between Via in Publicolis, Via dei Falegnami and Piazza Costa…
- Santa Maria in Vallicella, the Chiesa NuovaSanta Maria in Vallicella faces Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, at the height of Piazza della Chiesa Nuova, and almost nobody calls it by its name. In…
- Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a TreviThe church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi occupies the north side of piazza di Trevi, directly facing the Trevi Fountain, and every day it e…
- St. Peter’s Basilica in the VaticanSt. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican is the largest of Rome's four papal basilicas, often described as the largest church in the world and center of…
- Temple of Antoninus and FaustinaThe Temple of Antoninus and Faustina stands on the northern side of the Roman Forum, along Via Sacra, between the Basilica Aemilia and the Temple o…
- The Madonna della Vallicella – Rubens’ Motorized PaintingThe Madonna della Vallicella - Rubens' Motorized Painting - Via del Governo Vecchio, 134, 00186 Rome RM
- The Twin Churches of Piazza del PopoloThe two churches that close off Piazza del Popolo on the south side, at the mouth of the Tridente, have been known for three and a half centuries a…
- Three Days in Rome: Day-by-Day ItineraryThree days in Rome is the most common format for visiting the city and also the most misunderstood: it's enough to see the ancient core, the Baroqu…
- Trevi FountainTrevi Fountain is the largest and among the most famous fountains in Rome.
- Trinità dei MontiTrinità dei Monti - Piazza della Trinità dei Monti, 3, 00187 Rome RM
- Triton FountainThe Triton Fountain, a work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is in Rome in Piazza Barberini.
- Turtle FountainPhoto: Rijksmuseum, CC0 license, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fontana_delle_Tartarughe,_RP-F-F80027.jpg) The Turt…
- Via GiuliaVia Giulia runs parallel to the Tiber for about a kilometer, from Piazza dell'Oro, in front of the basilica of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini…
- Villa Falconieri in FrascatiVilla Falconieri is at viale Borromini 5 in Frascati (RM) and today can be visited only on Sunday, with two free guided tours in Italian at 10:00 a…
- Villa Giustiniani Massimo al LateranoVilla Giustiniani Massimo al Laterano - Via Matteo Boiardo, 16, 00185 Roma RM
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