Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
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“Contains almost a millennia's worth of Italian architecture, from an 18th-century baroque exterior to the 5th-century mosaics lining its interior arch.”
– Afar Magazine
"Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the oldest churches in Rome, built around 440 by Pope Sixtus III."
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"One of Rome's four patriarchal basilicas, Santa Maria was built on the summit of the Esquiline Hill in the 5th century."
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"Originally built in the fifth century, Santa Maria Maggiore contains one of the best preserved Byzantine interiors in Rome."
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"Behind this blowsy Baroque façade is one of the most striking basilica-form churches in Rome."
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"This great church, one of Rome's four major basilicas, was built by Pope Liberius in A.D. 358 and was rebuilt by Pope Sixtus III from 432 to 440."
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