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CHURCHES AND BASILICAS
Churches and Basilicas
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
The Cathedral of Rome is situated on the hill of Celio .
It was founded by Pope Miltiades between 311 and 314 on a property of the family of Plauzi Laterani , given to him by his wife of Emperor Constantine. It is therefore the oldest basilica in the world considering that its foundation about fourteen precedes that of St. Peter's Basilica .
Over the centuries it was renovated and rebuilt several times , so if one side of the basement contains the remains of the oldest structures , the outer walls remain , although reinforced in later centuries, the early Middle Ages , while belonging to the thirteenth century , the cloister and the two bell towers .
They are the result of the intervention conducted by Domenico Fontana century by Giacomo Della Porta and the transept and the side wall , obtained at the benediction
Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano Roma (San Giovanni-Metro A)
loggia erected by Sixtus V.
They added several popes environments , decorations and artwork . An internal restructuring was made by Borromini, on behalf of Pope Innocent X on the occasion of the Jubilee of 1650.
Its imposing travertine facade overlooking Piazza di Porta San Giovanni was built in 1735 by the famous architect Alessandro Galilei.
Pius IX and Leo XIII did run by Virginio Vespignani reconstruction and restoration of the chancel and apse.
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