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The Basilica of San Paolo Maggiore is a basilica built on the ruins of the Dioscuri Temple, of which two Corinthian columns remain. Its construction lasted a century, from 1538 to 1630.

The San Paolo Sanctuary was built in the 20th century in imitation of the Norman style. Three artists worked on the facade, decorated with mosaics and three heavy sculpted bronze doors.

The church of San Patrizio in Villa Ludovisi was built in 1908 to a design by Aristide Leonori. It is in the neo-Renaissance style with Romanesque-Byzantine motifs on its façade. San Patrizio a Villa Ludovisi was the national church of Ireland until it became the national church of the United States of America in 2017. Since August 2017, it has been under the pastoral care of the Paulist Fathers, a religious order originally from and based in New York.

The minor basilica of San Pedro was built on an old church between the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century, after the conquest of Cordoba by Fernando III.

The current church of San Pedro was built between 1945 and 1955 after the destruction of the 15th-century building during the Spanish Civil War. Originally in the Gothic style, it is now in the historicist style inspired by Romanesque and pre-Romanesque Asturian art.

The church of San Pedro de Teruel is a 14th-century church typical of the Mudéjar architecture of Aragon. Its tower is the oldest example of Teruel Mudejar and dates from the 13th century. The interior of the temple was decorated between 1896 and 1902 in Neomudéjar Modernist style by Pablo Monguió Segura and the artist Salvador Gisbert.

The Basilica of San Pietro di Castello, whose current building was built between 1596 and 1619, is an important place of worship in Venice and, until 1807, the Cathedral of the Patriarchate of Venice.

San Pietro di Sorres is a monastery church, an ancient cathedral, built in the 12th and 13th centuries in the late Romanesque style of Pisan. The diocese of Sorres was abolished in 1503. The building slowly fell into decay and was abandoned until 1947, when it was transformed into a monastery.

The church of San Pietro in Banchi in its current structure dates back to the end of the 16th century. It was built in the place where centuries before a religious building already stood, destroyed at the end of the 14th century during the struggles of faction between Guelphs and Ghibellines.

San Salvador de Palat del Rey was founded in the 10th century with a monastery. Parish church since the 13th century, the building was almost destroyed in 1910 because of its simplicity. It was saved thanks to the architectural study of the archaeologist Juan Crisóstomo Torbado and the historical study of Manuel Gómez-Moreno; both have demonstrated the importance of preserving a building of great value in the history of the Kingdom of León and therefore in the history of Spain.