S. Teresa Al Corso D'Italia
Santa Teresa d'Avila is a minor basilica, titular church, titular, and conventual church on the Corso d'Italia in Rome, Italy. It is dedicated to Teresa of Ávila and is the church of the General Curia of the Discalced Carmelites. History It was founded by Cardinal Girolamo Gotti in 1901, designed in a Romanesque architecture, Romanesque-Gothic architecture, Gothic hybrid style by Tullio Passarelli. In 1906 Pope Pius X made it a parish church and granted it to the Discalced Carmelites, who still have a generalate by the church and serve the church and its convent and parochial centre. Pope Pius XII elevated it to the status of basilica#The patriarchal basilicas in Rome, basilica in 1951, and eleven years later Pope John XXIII made it a titular church, with Cardinal Giovanni Panico as its first titular cardinal. The tympanum (architecture), tympanum above the main entrance door depicts Saint Teresa being blessed by Christ. The interior is decorated with works by 20th-century Ro ...
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Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ...
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