Tag: Pope Gregorius the Great
Rome: Santa Maria in Traspontina
Rome: Saint Peter’s Basilica
Brescia: Santa Giulia (part 2)
Spoleto: San Paolo inter vineas
Rome: Sant’Agata dei Goti
Rome: Chiesa Nuova

The name Chiesa Nuova is obviously just a nickname. The official name of this immense Counter-Reformation church is and has always been the Santa Maria in Vallicella. The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and has a subsidiary dedication to Pope Saint Gregorius the Great (590-604). This latter dedication…
Rome: Castel Sant’Angelo
Rome: San Gregorio Magno al Celio
Rome: Santa Maria in Cosmedin

The Santa Maria in Cosmedin is a church that is located on the Forum Boarium, Ancient Rome’s cattle market. Just to the north was another forum, the Forum Holitorium, which was a vegetable market. Both forums were obviously very important trading locations in Antiquity. A reconstruction of early Rome from…