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Church Attractions In Frascati

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Frascati is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located 20 kilometres south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific laboratories. Frascati produces the white wine with the same name. It is also a historical and artistic centre.
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  • 2. Chiesa del Gesu Frascati
    The Church of the Gesù is the mother church of the Society of Jesus , a Catholic religious order. The Church of the Gesù is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome. Officially named Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina , its facade is the first truly baroque façade, introducing the baroque style into architecture. The church served as model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in the Americas. Its paintings in the nave, crossing, and side chapels became models for Jesuit churches throughout Italy and Europe, as well as those of other orders.. First conceived in 1551 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, and active during the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent Catholic Counter-Reformation, the Gesù was also the home of the...
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  • 3. St. Peter's Basilica Vatican City
    The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican , or simply St. Peter's Basilica , is an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as holding a unique position in the Christian world and as the greatest of all churches of Christendom.Catholic tradition holds that the Basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, chief among Jesus's Apostles and also the first Bishop of...
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