Santa Maria in Trastevere
Traditionally one of the oldest churches in Rome dedicated to the Virgin Mary, at the heart of the Trastevere quarter. The present building was largely rebuilt under Pope Innocent II in the 12th century, and its gold medieval mosaics glow across the apse and the facade over the piazza.
- Where
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 41.8894, 12.4697
Get the Santa Maria in Trastevere stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Santa Maria in Trastevere. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Lazio volume with your photos and a note.
Near Santa Maria in Trastevere
Trastevere 0.4 km
The old quarter across the Tiber, its name from the Latin trans Tiberim, beyond the Tiber. Narrow cobbled lanes, ivy on the walls and small trattorias fill the streets around its old basilica of Santa Maria, and it is at its liveliest after dark.
Campo de' Fiori 0.7 km
A rectangular square south of Piazza Navona whose name, the field of flowers, dates from the Middle Ages when it was still a meadow. A produce and flower market fills it in the mornings, under the hooded statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno.
Largo di Torre Argentina 0.9 km
A sunken square in the middle of modern traffic, holding four temples from the Roman Republic and part of the remains of Pompey's Theatre. It lies in the ancient Campus Martius, and a colony of cats now lives among the columns.
Piazza Navona 1.1 km
A long oval square that keeps the exact shape of the Stadium of Domitian, built here in the 1st century AD for athletic games. Three fountains run down its length, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers at the centre, and the old running track is now lined with cafes and Baroque church fronts.
Capitoline Museums 1.2 km
Rome's own civic museums, set in two palaces that face each other across Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill. Among the ancient pieces inside are the bronze she-wolf and the original equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.
Pantheon 1.2 km
A Roman temple first built under Augustus and rebuilt by Hadrian, now a church and still in use almost two thousand years on. Its unreinforced concrete dome, open to the sky through a single round oculus, lets in a moving disc of sunlight and the occasional shower of rain.
Altare della Patria 1.3 km
A vast white monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of united Italy, built between 1885 and 1935 to a design by Giuseppe Sacconi. It rises in tiers of columns and statues above Piazza Venezia, and Romans have long given it nicknames like the wedding cake and the typewriter.
Roman Forum 1.3 km
A long rectangle of columns, arches and temple footings that was once the centre of public life in ancient Rome. It began as a marketplace and grew into the place where Romans voted, traded, heard speeches and held triumphs, with the Palatine on one side and the Capitoline on the other.
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Questions
Where is Santa Maria in Trastevere?
Santa Maria in Trastevere is in Rome, Lazio, Italy. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Trastevere (0.4 km), Campo de' Fiori (0.7 km), Largo di Torre Argentina (0.9 km).
How do I get the Santa Maria in Trastevere stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Santa Maria in Trastevere and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Lazio volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Santa Maria in Trastevere before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Lazio volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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