Borgo
District of Rome
Latium - Italy

Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J. , SJ or SI) is a Christian male religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits. They are sometimes referred to colloquially as "God's Soldiers", the latter being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and the members' willingness to accept orders anywhere in the world and to live in extreme conditions where required.

Located at 41.9014, 12.4606 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Society of Jesus, Counter-Reformation, Religious organizations established in the 1540s, 1540 establishments

Castel Sant'Angelo

The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The building was later used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum. The Castel was once the tallest building in Rome.

Located at 41.9031, 12.4664 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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130s establishments, 2nd-century architecture, Castles in Italy, Defunct prisons in Italy, Nervo-Trajanic Dynasty, Roman emperors' mausoleums, Mausoleums in Rome, Sites of papal elections, Michael (archangel), Hadrian

Passetto di Borgo

The Passetto di Borgo, or simply Passetto, is an elevated passage that links the Vatican City with the Castel Sant'Angelo. It is an approximately 800 m long corridor, located in the rione of Borgo. It was erected in 1277 by Pope Nicholas III, but parts of the wall were built by Totila during the Gothic War. On several occasions it served as an escape route for Popes in danger. Pope Alexander VI crossed it in 1494, when Charles VIII invaded the city and the pope's life was in peril.

Located at 41.9033, 12.4617 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Rome, 1270s architecture

Leonine City

The Leonine City (in Latin Civitas Leonina) is the part of the city of Rome around which the ninth-century Pope Leo IV commissioned the construction of the Leonine Wall. It is on the opposite side of the Tiber from the seven hills of Rome and was not enclosed within the ancient city's Aurelian Walls, built between 271 and 275. The Vatican City is within the enclosed area, but the Leonine City, containing also the Roman rione of Borgo, is much more extensive than the tiny Vatican City.

Located at 41.9031, 12.4597 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Districts of Rome, Government of Vatican City

Borgo (rione of Rome)

Borgo (sometimes called also I Borghi), is the 14th historic district of Rome, Italy. It lies on the west bank of the Tiber, and has a trapezoidal shape. Its coat of arms shows a lion (after the name "Leonine City", which was also given to the district), lying in front of three mounts and a star. These - together with a lion rampant - are also part of the coat of arms of Pope Sixtus V who annexed Borgo as fourteenth rione to the city of Rome.

Located at 41.9041, 12.4616 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Rioni of Rome

Ponte Sant'Angelo

Ponte Sant'Angelo, once the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, meaning the Bridge of Hadrian, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian, to span the Tiber, from the city center to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with three arches; it was approached by means of ramp from the river.

Located at 41.9017, 12.4665 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Bridges in Rome, Pedestrian bridges in Italy, Roman bridges in Italy, Deck arch bridges, Stone bridges, 2nd-century bridges

Bambino Gesù Hospital

The Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital (Italian: Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù) is a children's hospital located in Rome, Italy. It accomplishes its institutional Christian testimony by providing public services in the healthcare field. The Hospital, which was founded in 1869, is now part of the network of the National Healthcare System in the city of Rome on extraterritorial area administered by the Holy See.

Located at 41.8975, 12.4608 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Properties of the Holy See, Hospitals in Rome, Hospitals established in 1869

Pontifical Urbaniana University

The Pontifical Urbaniana University or Pontifical Urban University (Latin: Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana, Italian: Pontificia Università Urbaniana) is a pontifical university under the authority of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. It is also known as The Collegio Urbano of Propaganda Fide. It is located in Rome, the capital of Italy.

Located at 41.8996, 12.4583 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Pontifical Universities, Roman Colleges, Educational institutions established in 1962, Pontifical Urbaniana University

Santa Maria in Traspontina

Santa Maria in Traspontina (or Transpontina) is a Carmelite church in Rome, Italy. The shrine lies on the Via della Conciliazione, the main road of the Rione Borgo. Pope Alexander VI demolished an ancient Roman pyramid on the same site (the Meta Romuli, believed in the Middle Ages to be Romulus's tomb, and portrayed on the bronze doors to St Peter's Basilica and in a Giotto di Bondone triptych in the Vatican Museums) for the construction of the first church.

Located at 41.9028, 12.4622 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Rome, Titular churches in Rome, Carmelite churches, 16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings

Santo Spirito in Sassia

Santo Spirito in Sassia is a 12th century basilica church in Rome. It has been erected in Borgo Santo Spirito, a street which got its name from the church, placed in the southern part of Rione Borgo. The church stands on the site of King Ine of Wessex's Schola Saxorum or Saxon School, a charitable institution for Saxon pilgrims. It was rebuilt in the 12th century. Subsequently it was restored several times.

Located at 41.9014, 12.4611 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Rome, Religious buildings completed in 1580, Titular churches in Rome, 12th-century church buildings, Renaissance architecture in Rome

San Giovanni dei Fiorentini

San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, St John of the Florentines, is a church in the Ponte rione or district of Rome. Dedicated to St John the Baptist, the protector of Florence, the new church for the Florentine community in Rome was started in the 16th century and completed in early 18th and is the national church of Florence in Rome. The main façade fronts onto the Via Giulia.

Located at 41.8997, 12.465 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Rome, Titular churches in Rome, 16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings, Religious buildings completed in 1620

Sant'Onofrio (Rome)

Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo is a titular church in Trastevere, Rome. It is the official church of the papal order of knighthood Order of the Holy Sepulchre. A side chapel is dedicated specifically to the Order and a former grand master, Nicola Canali is entombed there. The church contains memorials of Torquato Tasso, the author of Gerusalemme Liberata, the epic poem that retells the deeds of the crusaders who fought to regain possession of the Holy Sepulchre itself.

Located at 41.8972, 12.4614 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Titular churches in Rome, 1430s architecture, 15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings

Via della Conciliazione

Via della Conciliazione (Road of the Conciliation) is a street in the Rione of Borgo within Rome, Italy. Roughly 500 metres in length, it connects Saint Peter's Square to the Castel Sant'Angelo on the western bank of the Tiber River. The road was constructed between 1936 and 1950, and it is the primary access route to the Square.

Located at 41.9023, 12.462 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Italian fascist architecture, Streets in Rome

Pope John Paul II assassination attempt

The first attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II took place on Wednesday, 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square at Vatican City. The Pope was shot and critically wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck four times, and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately, and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope later forgave Ağca for the assassination attempt.

Located at 41.9026, 12.4567 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Assassination attempts, History of the Papacy, Contemporary Italian history, Crime in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II, 1981 crimes, 1981 in Italy, 1981 in religion

Palazzo Torlonia

Palazzo Torlonia (also known as the Palazzo Giraud, Giraud-Torlonia or Castellesi) is a 16th century Early Renaissance town house in Via della Conciliazione, Rome, Italy. Built for Cardinal Adriano Castellesi da Corneto from 1496, the architect was Andrea Bregno. , although others have attributed the design to Bramante.

Located at 41.9026, 12.461 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Palaces in Rome, Renaissance architecture in Rome, 1490s architecture

Palazzo Pio

The 'Palazzo Pio' is built on top of the ruins of the Temple of Venus Victrix of the Theatre of Pompey, and overlooks other neighboring areas of Campo de' Fiori and Piazza del Biscione in Rome, Italy.

Located at 41.9029, 12.4638 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Palaces in Rome

Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II

Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II is a bridge in Rome constructed to designs of 1886 by the architect Ennio De Rossi. Construction was delayed, and it was not inaugurated until 1911. The bridge across the Tiber connects the historic centre of Rome (Corso Vittorio Emanuele, whose axis the bridge extends, and piazza Paoli at the bridgehead) with the rione Borgo and the Vatican City, close to the few remains of the Roman Pons Neronianus.

Located at 41.9011, 12.4642 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Bridges in Rome, Bridges completed in 1911

Church of Santi Michele e Magno

The Church of Saints Michael and Magnus is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel and the Bishop Saint Magnus of Anagni. It lies in Rione Borgo, and is the national church dedicated to The Netherlands. It is also known as the "Church of the Frisians" (Dutch: Kerk van de Friezen). Since 1989 the church was granted to the Dutch community in Rome.

Located at 41.9015, 12.459 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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National churches in Rome, Dutch mythology, Roman Catholic churches in Rome

Pons Neronianus

The Pons Neronianus or Bridge of Nero was an ancient bridge in Rome built during the reign of the emperors Caligula or Nero to connect the western part of the Campus Martius with the Campus Vaticanus ("Vatican Fields"), where the Imperial Family owned land along the Via Cornelia.

Located at 41.901, 12.4641 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Bridges in Rome, Roman bridges in Italy, 1st-century bridges, Nero

Patristic Institute Augustinianum

The Patristic Institute "Augustinianum" is a Roman Catholic Church institution of higher education in Rome. It is responsible for the study of patristic theology - the history and theology of Church Fathers.

Located at 41.9006, 12.4578 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Education in Rome

Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri

The Church of Saint Anne in Vatican (Italian: Sant'Anna in Vaticano), known as Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri (English: Saint Anne of the Grooms), is a Roman Catholic parish church in Vatican City, dedicated to Saint Anne. The church is the parish church of the Vicariate of the Vatican City.

Located at 41.9041, 12.4575 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Churches in Vatican City, Buildings and structures completed in 1583

Palazzo Della Rovere

Palazzo Della Rovere is a palace in Rome, Italy, facing Via della Conciliazione. It is also known as Palazzo dei Penitenzieri. The construction of the palace was started in 1480 by cardinal Domenico della Rovere, a relative of Pope Sixtus IV, perhaps under the design of the Florentine architect Baccio Pontelli. The palazzo was built between 1480 and 1490; Pontelli modelled it closely on the architectural style of Palazzo Venezia, the most important building in 15th century Rome.

Located at 41.9021, 12.4611 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Palaces in Rome, Palaces in Rome, Renaissance architecture in Rome, 1480s architecture

Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia

Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia was a Renaissance palace in Rome, Italy, which was located in the Borgo district. It was built for Jacopo (also known as Giacomo di Bartolomeo) da Brescia, a physician at the service of Pope Leo X, between 1515 and 1519. Its design is commonly attributed to Raphael, and was based to Bramante's nearby Palazzo Caprini (also demolished). The palace, which had a triangular footprint, stood at the confluence of Borgo Nuovo and Borgo S. Angelo.

Located at 41.9029, 12.4595 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Palaces in Rome, Buildings and structures completed in 1519, Renaissance architecture in Rome, Buildings and structures demolished in 1936, Raphael

Parco Adriano

for the residential park of Milan see Parco Adriano (Milan) Parco Adriano is a park in Rome, Italy on the northern bank of the Tiber, just to the east of the Vatican. It contains the Castel Sant'Angelo.

Located at 41.9036, 12.4664 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Parks in Rome

Porta San Pellegrino

Porta San Pellegrino is a gate in the outer wall of Vatican City. It is located beside Bernini's Colonnade and the small Vatican post; it is also known as Porta Viridaria. The gate was rebuilt by Pope Alexander VI in 1492 and his arms are at the top of the gate. The gate is little used.

Located at 41.9035, 12.4572 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Vatican City, Italy–Vatican City border crossings