FROM SANT’APOLLINARE TO SANT’IVO ALLA SAPIENZA

From Sant’Apollinare to Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza

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 Sant’Apollinare Square and see Sant’Apollinare Church, designed by the great architect Ferdinando Fuga.
Just in front of the Church there is Altemps Palace, but our target is Sant’Agostino. Then obviously take Sant’Agostino street.
The Renaissance façade is austere, that is not so attractive, but the interior!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Sant’Agostino. Now go to Scrofa (=sow) street, few meters and reach San Luigi dei Francesi. 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 Sant’Eustachio Church and the Palace of Tizio da Spoleto.

At last the Borromini masterpiece: Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza (=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.