Church of Santa Maria della Consolazione (Rome)

Italy / Lazio / Rome / Piazza della Consolazione
 church, Roman Catholic church
Santa Maria della Consolazione is a Roman Catholic church in Rome at the foot of the Palatine Hill, in rione Campitelli.
The church is named after an icon of the Virgin Mary which was placed on this site to console criminals who were tossed down off the cliff above the church, thought to be the Tarpeian Rock from where condemned Roman criminals were tossed to their death in Roman times. In 1385 a condemned nobleman, Giordanello degli Alberini, paid 2 gold florins for the icon to provide consolation for criminals facing death
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Consolazione
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Coordinates:   41°53'29"N   12°28'59"E
This article was last modified 12 years ago