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t Santa Maria Maggiore VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

A confident blend of architectural styles, ranging from Early Practical Information
Christian to late Baroque, Santa Maria is also famous for its Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore.
superb mosaics. Founded in about AD 420, it retains the Map 4 D4.
original colonnaded triple nave, lined with panels of rare Tel 06 69 88 68 00.
Open 7am–6:45pm daily. 5 7
5th-century mosaics.
The Cosmatesque marble Transport
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floor and bell tower are q Termini, Cavour.
medieval, as are the
spectacular mosaics on the
triumphal arch and in the Bell
loggia. The lavish coffered tower
ceiling is Renaissance; the
façades, domes and Coronation of the Virgin
chapels, Baroque. This is one of the wonderful
13th-century mosaics in the
apse by Jacopo Torriti.
5th-century
mosaics
Tomb of Cardinal
Rodriguez
This Gothic tomb,
which dates from
1299, contains
magnificent
marblework by
the Cosmati.

18th-century façade 13th-century
by Ferdinando Fuga mosaics

Column in
Piazza Santa Cappella Sistina
Maria Maggiore This chapel was
In 1611, a bronze built for Pope Sixtus V
of the Virgin and (1584–7) by
Cappella Paolina Child was added Domenico Fontana
Flaminio Ponzio, architect of to this ancient and was opulently
the Villa Borghese, designed marble column covered with
this sumptuous chapel in which came from ancient marble.
1611 for Pope Paul V who is the Basilica of It houses the
buried here. Constantine. pope’s tomb.

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