Piazza San Lorenzo / Consecrated by St. Ambrose in 393, it is the oldest church in the city. It was then rebuilt along Romanesque lines in 1060. The present building dates to 1423 and was designed ...

Piazza Santo Spirito / The church of Santo Spirito founded in 1250 received its present form in the 15th century when it was built after a model by Brunelleschi who had conceived it as a twin to th...

Directly to the east of the church is St Peter's Square (Piazza di San Pietro), built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667. It is surrounded by an elliptical colomnade with two pairs of Do...