San Gregorio Magno al Celio, Baroque church on Caelian Hill, Rome, Italy
The church features sixteen antique columns dividing its basilican layout, with a classical Cosmatesque floor dating from the thirteenth century.
Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned Giovanni Battista Soria to rebuild the church between 1629 and 1633 on the site of Pope Gregory's former villa.
Three separate oratories stand to the left of the church, commemorating the original monastery established by Gregory the Great in 575.
Visitors must ring a bell at the entrance to access the church through an atrium rather than the main facade entrance.
The church grounds yielded the discovery of the Aphrodite of Menophantos, a Greco-Roman marble sculpture later acquired by the House of Chigi.
Location: Rome
Inception: 6 century
Architects: Giovanni Battista Soria
Architectural style: baroque architecture
Website: https://sgregorioalcelio.com
GPS coordinates: 41.88547,12.49064
Latest update: November 28, 2025 14:40
Rome contains over 900 churches that demonstrate two thousand years of sacred architecture, from Roman antiquity to the Baroque period. These buildings reveal the evolution of construction techniques and artistic expressions over the centuries. St. Peter's Basilica covers 20,000 square meters and features a dome designed by Michelangelo. The Pantheon retains its Roman dome with a 43-meter (141 feet) diameter, the largest ever constructed in unreinforced concrete. Major basilicas such as Santa Maria Maggiore showcase Byzantine mosaics from the 5th century beneath a Renaissance ceiling with gilded coffers. Saint Clement's Basilica in the Lateran overlays three levels of construction from the 1st to the 12th centuries, illustrating Rome's urban stratification. Santa Maria in Trastevere, one of the city's oldest churches, presents medieval gilded mosaics, while Saint Peter's in Chains houses Michelangelo's Moses. These monuments help understand how Rome shaped European religious architecture for over fifteen centuries.
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