Chiesa di Santa Maria Portae Paradisi

The church of Santa Maria Portae Paradisi was already known in the 9th century as Santa Maria in Augusta, and was given the name Porta Paradisi because one of the gates in the walls of the Mausoleum of Augustus, called paradiseiois, opened nearby, or because the cemetery (closed in 1836 due to the cholera epidemic) of the Hospital of San Giacomo in Augusta, called Incurabili, was located next door. In the 16th century, the church was rebuilt by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and took its present name.

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