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were taken from previous chapels. Today, contemporary
buildings, including the exhibitions are occasionally
great porphyry ones of a held here.
triumphal arch. The mosaic
floor is the result of recycling 0 San Francesco
precious marble from various a Ripa
Roman ruins.
Piazza San Francesco d’Assisi 88. Map
7 Caserma dei Vigili 7 C2. Tel 06-581 9020. @ H, 23, 44, 75,
della VII Coorte 280. v 8. Open 7:30am–1pm &
2–7:30pm daily. 5 7
Via della VII Coorte 9. Map 7 C1.
Tel 06-0608. @ H, 23, 280, 780. v 8. St. Francis of Assisi lived here
Closed for restoration work; call in a hospice when he visited
for details. Rome in 1219, and his stone
pillow and crucifix are preserved
Not all Roman ruins are Imperial in his cell. The church was
villas or grand temples; one that rebuilt by his follower, the
illustrates the daily life of a busy nobleman Rodolfo Anguillara,
city is the barracks of the guards who is portrayed on his
of the VII Coorte (7th Cohort), tombstone wearing the
the Roman fire department. It Franciscan habit.
was built in Augustus’s reign, in Entirely rebuilt in the 1680s
the 1st century AD, and the by Cardinal Pallavicini, the
excavated courtyard is where church is rich in sculpture.
the men would rest while Particularly flamboyant are
waiting for a call-out. the 18th-century Rospigliosi
and Pallavicini monuments
8 Santa Cecilia in in the transept chapel.
Trastevere The Paluzzi-Albertoni chapel
(fourth on the left, along
Piazza di Santa Cecilia. Map 8 D1. the nave) contains Bernini’s
Tel 06-589 9289. @ H, 23, 44, 280. Detail of 13th-century fresco by Pietro breathtaking Ecstasy of Beata
v 8. Open 10am–1pm & 4–7pm Cavallini in Santa Cecilia Ludovica Albertoni.
daily. & Excavations: Open 10am–
1pm & 4–7pm daily. Cavallini fresco: statue of St. Cecilia by Stefano
Open 10am–12:30pm daily. Maderno, who used her q Villa Sciarra
miraculously preserved remains Via Calandrelli 35. Map 7 B2. @ 44,
St. Cecilia, aristocrat and patron as a model when she was briefly 75. Park: Open 9am–sunset daily. 7
saint of music, was martyred disinterred in 1599.
here in AD 230. After an attempt In Roman times the site of this
at scalding her to death, she 9 San Michele a small, attractive public park
was beheaded. A church was was a nymph’s sanctuary. It is
founded – perhaps in the 4th Ripa Grande especially picturesque in spring
century – on the site of her Via di San Michele 25. Map 8 D2. when its wisterias are in full
house. (The house, beneath the Tel 06-6723 1440. @ 23, 44, 75, 280. bloom. The paths through
church with the remains of a Open for special exhibitions only. the park are de corated with
Roman tannery, is well worth Romantic follies, fountains, and
a visit.) Her body turned up in This huge, imposing complex, statues, and there are splendid
the Catacombs of San Callisto now housing the Ministry views over the bastions of
(see p267), and was buried here of Culture, stretches 985 ft the Janiculum.
in the 9th century by Pope (300 m) along
Paschal I, who rebuilt the the Tiber River.
church. A fine apse mosaic It was built on
survives from this period. the initiative
The altar canopy by Arnolfo of Pope
di Cambio and the fresco of Innocent XII
The Last Judgment by Pietro and contained
Cavallini, reached through the a home for
adjoining convent, date from the elderly,
the 13th century, one of the a boys’ reform
few periods when Rome had a school, a
distinctive artistic style of its woolen mill, Bernini’s Ecstasy of Beata Ludovica Albertoni (1674) in
own. In front of the altar is a and various San Francesco a Ripa

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