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Which are your favourite adjectives? Wonderful, impressive, extraordinary, memorable? Carry all them because within few steps you get into fine arts’ world.

Leave Navona Square and go to Tor Sanguigna Square and immediately you enter into S. Apollinare Square and see S. Apollinare Church (36), designed by the great architect Ferdinando Fuga. Just in front of the Church there is Altemps Palace, but our target is S. Agostino (35). Then obviously take S. Agostino street.
The Renaissance façade is austere, that is not so attractive, but the interior!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks S. Agostino. Now go to Scrofa (=sow) street, few meters and reach San Luigi dei Francesi (43). Once more the severe façade by Giacomo della Porta is not so attractive but enter and you discover so many masterpieces. 
Two chapels excel, one by Domenichino depicts S. Cecilia histories, the other by Caravaggio is devoted to S. Matteo. Both the artists are at their top and at the same time they are fully dissimilar.

The next target is S. Eustachio Square, where are waiting for us S. Eustachio (53)Church and the Palace of Tizio da Spoleto.

At last the Borromini masterpiece: S. Ivo alla Sapienza (58) (=wisdom).

Are you tired? Take a S. Eustachio super coffee and rest waiting for Navona Act III.

Advice: in former times the visitors came to Rome just to see this act.