Places associated with the Borja lineage in Rome
Civil Architecture
Appartamento Borgia
The Valencian Rodrigo de Borja, who was elected Pope at the death of Innocent VIII under the name of Alexander VI, links ...
Borgia Staircase
This staircase, which connects Via Cavour with Piazza San Pietro in Vincoli, is part of a building where Vannozza Cattanei ...
Borgia Tower
In a corner of Piazza San Pietro in Vincoli, near the Borgia steps, is the so-called Borgia tower, a 12th-century building ...
Castillo de Sant'Angelo
This imposing fortress has its origins in the mausoleum that Emperor Hadrian had built for himself and his family in the ...
House of Fiammetta
This 15th-century building, on two floors, with an altana and a front porch supported by columns and pillars, has traditionally ...
Locanda della Vacca
Close to Campo de Fiori, at numbers 11 and 14 of Vicolo del Gallo, is this 15th century building, famous for housing the ...
Orsini Palace Taverna
The current set of buildings, on Monte Giordano, that make up the Orsini Taverna palace, was owned by one of the most important ...
Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona is one of the most spectacular and characteristic urban settings of Baroque Rome. The square is delimited ...
Sforza Cesarini Palace
The Sforza Cesarini Palace was built in 1458 by Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia as the seat of the Apostolic Chancellery, of which ...
Religious Architecture
Basilica of San Marco Evangelista
Located in Piazza di San Marco, next to Piazza Venezia, it was built in the year 336 by Pope Marcos, whose remains rest under ...
Basilica of San Pietro
The Basilica of San Pedro was an initiative of the Emperor Constantine who, in the 4th century, decided to build this temple ...
Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the four papal basilicas in Rome and the only one that has preserved the primitive ...
Church of Montserrat
Near Campo de' Fiori is the church of Santa Maria in Monsterrato, the national church of the Spanish, where the remains of ...
Church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinal
The church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinal was built between 1658 and 1670 as an oratory for the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. In ...
Church of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola
The Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is a baroque church, erected according to the project of the Jesuit mathematician ...
Church of the Gesu
The mother church of the Society of Jesus was a personal project of Saint Ignatius of Loyola who, in 1551, commissioned the ...