Church of the Gesù

The church of Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi, built in 1582, is the national church of the Poles living in Rome. The present church was built on a medieval church mentioned in documents from 1174 and 1209. Pope Gregory XIII granted the church to the Polish Cardinal Stanislaus Osio who, in the 1580s, had the church completely rebuilt and dedicated it to the patron saint of Poland, St Stanislaus Szczepanowski.

The church of Santo Stefano del Cacco was built in its present form in 1607 on an ancient medieval church probably dating from the 9th century. The bell tower, now part of the nearby monastery, and the apse date from the 12th century. Pope Pius IV granted it to the Silvestrin Fathers in 1563, with the charge of caring for souls. The church was restored by the same fathers in 1607 and again in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The church of Santa Maria di Loreto is a Renaissance church built between 1507 and 1585 to the octagonal plan of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. The dome and lantern were completed by Jacopo Del Duca 75 years later. The church is built on the site of a former 15th-century chapel, which contained an icon of the Virgin of Loreto; the present church has retained the icon and taken its name.