Chiesa di San Martino ai Monti

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  • Address
    Viale del Monte Oppio 28, Monti
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  • Phone
    06 487 31 26
  • Transport
    underground rail: Cavour

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In the 3rd century this was already a place of worship - Christians would meet here, in what was then the home of a Roman named Equitius. In the 4th century, after Christianity was legalised, a church was constructed and subsequently rebuilt in the 6th and 9th centuries. It was then completely transformed by Filippo Gagliardi in the 1650s.

The sacristan can show you the remains of Equitius' house beneath the church. Up above, the 24 Corinthian columns in the nave are all that remain of the 6th-century building. Of note are Gagliardi's frescoes of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano before it was rebuilt in the mid-17th century and St Peter's Basilica before it assumed its present 16th-century look.