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| San Ignazio, Night...spooky |
Just a quick walk from the Temple of Hadrian to San Ignazio: (3-5 minutes, yes I timed it all out on Google maps, I may be slightly OCD) just to the left of the façade of the temple of Hadrian is a quaint, odd, even queer little street with a building right in the center of it. Walk around the building to the right to be rewarded with the magnificent and (for Rome) somewhat restrained baroque façade of San Ignazio
San Ignazio: Built between 1626 and 1650 as the rectory church to the adjacent Collegio Romano. The college was seized by the Italian Government in 1870. The interior is famous for it’s tromp l’oiel paintings and for the dubious honor of holding the glass coffin of St. Robert Bellarmine (the dude who forced Galileo to to abandon the doctrine of an immobile sun and a mobile earth. Apparently Galileo did penance under duress. Some 15 years later Galileo would be called before the inquisition to face the same accusation) anyhow if you want to see Sr. Robert he’s here under glass all in red.
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| Crazy baroque buildings surrounding San Ignazio |
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