Sant'Ivo della Sapienza, Rome
This little church is hard to find but well worth the extra effort although it is often closed when you get there.
This little church is hard to find but well worth the extra effort although it is often closed when you get there. Borromini's masterpiece. It is located only a block from Piazza Navona, but not usually visible from the street, as one must enter the courtyard of an old palazzo to reach the church. Sant'Ivo is a small church the dome of which is shaped like the Star of David, but with every other point rounded. The steeple seen from the outside looks like it has a staircase wrapped around it that ascends to heaven. As the church was commissioned by the Barberini family that produced a number of popes and whose family symbol was the bee, some say the steeple resembles the stinger of the insect.
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About Sant'Ivo della Sapienza
Corso del Rinascimento, 40, 00186 Roma, Italy
66864987
Sant'Ivo della Sapienza and Nearby Sights on Map
Palazzo della Sapienza
This building housed the University of Rome since the middle of the 15th century until 1935
Church of San Luigi dei Francesi
This church is roughly halfway between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon
Piazza Navona
The Piazza Navona is one of the most beautiful squares in Rome, built on the site of the ancient Stadium of Domitian
Palazzo Madama
This palace of the 16th cent was erected by the famous Medici family
Fontana del Moro
At the southern end of the Piazza Navona, it was designed by Bernini but the main statue of the Moor was done by Giacomo della Porta and the other statues are 19th-century copies of the originals
Pantheon
Originally built in 27 BCE, by Emperor Hadrian, the Pantheon was a temple to all gods of the Roman state, but has served as a Christian church since the 7th century
Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
Bernini's masterpiece, an obelisk on the back of an elephant
Fountain of the Four Rivers
Sant'Agnese in Agone
It is reputed to be on the spot where St
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
The palace was built by the architect Baldassare Peruzzi on behalf of the Massimo family