The Church Of Santa Maria Dell'Orto In Rome, Trastevere District Editorial Photo

The church of Santa Maria dell'Orto rises in the Trastevere district and is the national church of the Japanese in Rome. The church owes its name to the fact that it was built in an area previously occupied by an expanse of vegetable gardens on one of the border walls an image of the Virgin was painted to which, according to tradition, miraculous events were attributed. From this a popular devotion to the image was born and therefore the faithful built a small chapel on the site in 1492, while the current construction was begun in 1495. It is an authentic jewel of the Baroque