Basilica of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini
The Basilica of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini was begun in the 16th century and completed in the 18th century. The architect Jacopo Sansovino, started the construction in 1519, the actual construction of the church was carried out with the participation of Giacomo Della Porta who set up a church with a basilica plan with three naves on arched pillars and five chapels on each side. It was only thanks to Carlo Maderno that Giacomo Della Porta's project was realised, reducing the apse and transepts to three flat walls with large windows and building the slender dome in brick and stucco in 1634. The church was not completed until 1738 by Alessandro Galilei, who died a year before the completion of the façade.
