Church of San Rocco

The church of San Girolamo dei Croati a Ripetta, built in 1588-89, is the national church of the Croats in Rome. A community of refugees fleeing the Turks from Illyria and Slavonia had settled in the area overlooking the port of Ripetta since the 14th century. In 1453, Pope Nicholas V granted them the establishment of the Congregation of Saint Jerome of the Slavs. In the following century, Pope Sixtus V, who already owned the church, had it completely rebuilt by Martino Longhi the Elder between 1588 and 1589, adding a bell tower and rich furnishings.

Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso was built between 1612 and 1669 on a former 10th-century church. The church was originally designed by Onorio Longhi in a project inspired by the architecture of Milan Cathedral. Since 1906, the maintenance of the basilica has been entrusted to the priests of the Institute of Charity (Rosminians).

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.