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The church of Sant'Andrea di Lavina dates back at least to the 9th century. The first church, built on the ruins of a Roman building, was destroyed by an unknown natural disaster and was replaced in the 10th century by a new, larger church. A third church was built around the 12th century and at the end of the 16th century, it was given a Baroque appearance, which it still preserves in part. The bell tower can be dated to the 11th century. The church is so-called because of the Lavina stream that still flows under the nearby road.

The Church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri was founded in 1565 and is a rare example of a 16th century oval church. The church was completed in the eighteenth century, when the façade, the dome and the interior frescoes were made. The church became the parish of the Vatican City with the bull Ex Lateranensi pacto of Pope Pius XI of 30 May 1929.

This 5th-century church was constructed on the site of the Roman catacombs of the island. The catacombs are famous for being the place where Saint Antioch hid from Roman slavers and is now the resting place of Antioch himself.

The church of Sant'Antonio Abate was built as part of an architectural complex that already existed in the early 14th century and included a hospital. In July 1570, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola was commissioned by the Compagnia Del Sacramento to design a new church to replace the small chapel of the hospital of Sant'Antonio Abate. Vignola decided to design a church with characteristics similar to those of the Church of the Gesù in Rome.

The Church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi is a historic 17th-century temple in Naples. Since 2022 it has housed the Jago Museum, dedicated to the works of artist and sculptor Jacopo Cardillo.

The Church of Sant'Eusebio was a church in Pavia, of which only the crypt remains today. Built as an Arian cathedral by King Rothari (636-652), it later became an important place of conversion to Catholicism for the Lombards. The crypt of Sant'Eusebio is one of the two proto-Romanesque crypts in Pavia, together with that of S. Giovanni Domnarum. The crypt is divided into five naves by slender columns supporting cross vaults. The capitals of the columns are truncated pyramid-shaped and reproduce various motifs. Together with the cycle of Romanesque frescoes that decorate the vaults, they constitute the most interesting elements of the crypt.

The church of Sant'Irene dei Teatini was built from 1591 on a project by the Francesco Grimaldi Theatre (1543-1613) and was completed in 1639. The Baroque building is reminiscent of the model of the Basilica of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, where the architect Grimaldi himself worked.

Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo is a 15th-century convent church complex. The building, with a single nave and two chapels on each side, was completed in the 16th century and contains several paintings and sculptures from the 17th century. The small cloister of the convent is perhaps the oldest part of the complex, it also has a porticoed gallery on the upper floor.

A small, elegant 16th century church, it is one of the city’s most sought after wedding venues for the wealthy middle class of Andalucía. The church was designed by renowned local architect Diego de Siloe, and was built in the Renaissance style.

This temple is among the oldest on the island of São Miguel dedicated to the evocation of Santa Ana, it was built on the site where there was previously a hermitage dedicated to the evocation of Nossa Senhora da Consolação, which was the first temple in Vale das Furnas and which It may have been part of a convent, founded by hermit priests. Both the hermitage and the convent were destroyed by an eruption in 1630.