Basilica di San Saba : Piazza Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 20, 00153 Roma RM, Italy

The Basilica of San Saba stands on the "little Aventine," between the Aventine and Celian hills, in the discreetly charming neighborhood of the same name. The building was erected around the 8th century over an oratory built in Roman times …

Certainly a symbol for the neighborhood that grew up around it and took its name. Like the Regina, which likely shares its origins, this ancient basilica is now less important as a parish but not as a historical-artistic monument, …

A splendid early medieval basilica, abundant in ancient Roman marbles such as green and red porphyry. At the end of each nave is an apse, except for the older fourth nave on the left. The feeling the church conveys, starting from the exonarthex, is that of the churches of Ravenna.