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Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy

Sacred Heart of Trastevere

Santa Maria in Trastevere

14c Via della Paglia
00153  Rome,
Italy

+39 06 581 4802

http://www.romecity.it/Santamariaintraste...

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Santa Maria in Trastevere is the first Rome church to be consecrated to the Madonna. Its foundations were laid in approximately AD 400, when Christianity was only just beginning to take root in Europe. The present edifice is dated 1300 and contains beautiful mosaics by Pietro Cavallini, especially those dedicated to the life of the Virgin Mary. There is a magnificent life-size icon, La Madonna della Clemenza, from as early as the 7th Century. The nave is formed from granite columns taken from ancient Roman edifices. The 12th-century mosaics of the façade, depicting the Madonna and child and ten women holding lamps, are not to be missed. The portico was renovated in the 18th Century by Carlo Fontana and the balustrade is decorated with statues of Popes, baroque additions which do not detract from the church's original medieval aspect.

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