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San Francesco a Ripa

Address: Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi 88, Trastevere, Rome | Map It
Phone: 06/5819020

Category: Religious Sites
Location: Trastevere and the Ghetto

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Set near the southern end of Trastevere, this Baroque church attached to a 13th-century Franciscan monastery is noted for one of Bernini's last works, a statue of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni. This is perhaps Bernini's most hallucinatory sculpture, a dramatically lighted figure ecstastic at the prospect of entering heaven as she expires on her deathbed. She clutches her breast as a symbol, art historians have recently deciphered, of the "milk of human kindness" and Christian caritas (charity).

Open: Daily 7-noon and 4-7:30

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