Sant'Isidoro a Capo le Case

Local nameSant’Isidoro a Capo le Case
LocationLudovisi, Rome, Italy

Sant'Isidoro a Capo le Case is a Roman Catholic church, monastic complex and college of the Franciscan Order, in the Ludovisi district on the Pincian Hill in Rome. It contains the Cappella Da Sylva, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who also designed the funerary monument of his son Paolo Valentino Bernini in it. Since the giving of San Patrizio a Villa Ludovisi to the United States of America for use as their national church, Sant'Isidoro has become the National Church of Ireland in Rome.

The monastery was founded by a gift from the nobleman Ottaviano Vestri di Barbiano, as shown in a bull of pope Urban VIII of 1625. Its construction was begun in response to pope Gregory XV's 1622 canonisation of Isidore of Madrid and four other saints – in that year, some Spanish Discalced Franciscans arrived in Rome wanting to found a convent for Spaniards and build a church dedicated to Isidore.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant'Isidoro_a_Capo_le_Case

Address 41 Via degli Artisti, Roma 00187, Italy

Coordinates 41°54'21.673" N 12°29'13.398" E

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