San Nicola da Tolentino agli Orti Sallustiani, Baroque church in Trevi district, Rome, Italy.
San Nicola da Tolentino agli Orti Sallustiani is a baroque church in the Trevi district of Rome, with a two-story facade of pillars and columns. A wide staircase leads to the main portal, and inside there are several side chapels decorated with paintings and sculptures.
The church was founded in 1599 by Augustinian hermits and substantially rebuilt in 1654 under the patronage of the Pamphili family, following designs by Pietro da Cortona. That rebuilding gave the church its current form.
The chapel of Saint Teresa contains paintings by Pietro da Cortona alongside sculptures by Antonio Raggi and Ercole Ferrata. Visitors can see how painting and sculpture were designed to work together in a single space.
The church is an active place of worship, so modest clothing and quiet behavior are expected from all visitors. Visiting outside of service times makes it easier to look at the chapels without interruption.
The church contains a pipe organ built in 1629 by Celestino Testa, which is the only known object to survive from the city of Castro after it was destroyed in 1649 on the orders of Pope Innocent X. That makes this instrument one of the few physical traces left of an entire city that no longer exists.
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