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 The Jubilee Church (Chiesa di Dio Padre Misericordioso) The Jubilee Church (Chiesa del Dio Padre Misericordioso /Church of God the Merciful Father) was designed by the American architect Richard Meier and built between 1996 and 2003. The modernist church, which is situated in the district of Tor Tre Teste, was commissioned by Pope John Paul II (r. 1978-205) for the Millennium Jubilee. The three striking concrete shells symbolise the Holy Trinity.  The Jubilee Church Comments are closed.
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Fountains
- Fontana della Barcaccia
- Fontana di Piazza delle Scole
- Fountain of Moses
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountains of Piazza Farnese
- Fountain of the Acqua Paola
- Fountain of the Bees
- Fountain of the Cannonball
- Fountain of the Four Rivers
- Fountain of the Goddess Roma
- Fountain of the Moor
- Fountain of the Naiads
- Fountain of the Pantheon
- Fountains of Piazza del Popolo
- Fountain of the Porter
- Fountains of St Peter's Square
- Fountain of the Seahorses
- Fountain of the Triton
- Fountain of the Turtles
- Four Fountains
- Rioni Fountains
- Street Fountains
- Trevi Fountain
- Venice Marries the Sea
-
Churches
- Chiesa del Gesù >
- Chiesa Nuova
- Lateran Baptistery
- San Bartolomeo all' Isola
- San Carlo ai Catinari
- San Carlo al Corso
- San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
- San Clemente >
- San Crisogono
- San Francesco a Ripa >
- San Giorgio in Velabro
- San Giovanni a Porta Latina
- San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
- San Giovanni in Laterano >
- San Girolamo della Carità >
- San Gregorio Magno
- San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
- San Lorenzo in Damaso
- San Lorenzo in Lucina
- San Luigi dei Francesi >
- San Marco
- San Pancrazio
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- San Pietro in Montorio
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- San Vitale
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- Sant' Agostino
- Sant' Anastasia
- Sant' Andrea al Quirinale
- Sant' Andrea della Valle
- Sant' Andrea delle Fratte
- Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi
- Sant' Eustachio
- Sant' Ignazio di Loyola
- Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza
- Santa Caterina dei Funari
- Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
- Santa Costanza
- Santa Croce in Gerusalemme >
- Santa Francesca Romana
- Santa Maria degli Angeli
- Santa Maria del Popolo >
- Santa Maria del Priorato
- Santa Maria della Pace >
- Santa Maria della Vittoria >
- Santa Maria dell' Anima
- Santa Maria dell' Orazione e Morte
- Santa Maria dell' Orto
- Santa Maria di Loreto
- Santa Maria in Aracoeli >
- Santa Maria in Campitelli
- Santa Maria in Cosmedin
- Santa Maria in Domnica
- Santa Maria in Trastevere >
- Santa Maria in Via
- Santa Maria Maddalena
- Santa Maria Maggiore >
- Santa Maria sopra Minerva >
- Santa Prassede
- Santa Sabina >
- Santa Susanna
- Santi Apostoli
- Santi Cosma e Damiano
- Santi Domenico e Sisto
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Santi Luca e Martina
- Santi Nereo e Achilleo
- Santi Quattro Coronati
- Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio
- Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli
- Santissima Trinità di Monti
- Santissimo Nome di Maria
- Palatine
- Forum
-
Ancient Monuments
- Aqueducts
- Ara Pacis
- Arch of Constantine
- Arch of the Money-Changers
- Arch of Janus
- Aurelian Walls
- Baths of Caracalla
- Baths of Diocletian
- Castel Sant' Angelo
- Catacombs of Domitilla
- Circus Maxentius
- Circus Maximus
- Colosseum
- Column of Marcus Aurelius
- Column of Trajan
- Forum of Augustus
- Forum of Trajan
- Mausoleum of Augustus
- Nymphaeum
- Pantheon
- Ponte Fabricio
- Ponte Milvio
- Ponte Rotto
- Ponte Sant' Angelo
- Porta Maggiore
- Porta San Paolo
- Porta San Sebastiano
- Portico of Octavia
- Pyramid of Cestius
- Temple of Hadrian
- Temple of Hercules
- Temple of Portunus
- Theatre of Balbus
- Theatre of Marcellus
- Theatre of Pompey
- Tomb of Caecilia Metella
- Via Appia
-
Obelisks
- 'Minerveo' Obelisk
- 'Flaminio' Obelisk
- 'Matteiano' Obelisk
- 'Lateran' Obelisk
- 'Dogali' Obelisk
- 'Macuteo' Obelisk
- 'Solare' Obelisk
- 'Vatican' Obelisk
- 'Agonalis' Obelisk
- 'Sallustiano' Obelisk
- 'Quirinale' Obelisk
- 'Esquiline' Obelisk
- 'Pinciano' Obelisk
- 'Mediceo' Obelisk
- 'Torlonia' Obelisks
- 'Mussolini' Obelisk
- 'Marconi' Obelisk
- Mosaics
- Gallery
- Palazzi
- Galleries & Museums
- Piazzas
-
Miscellaneous
- A Calendar of Saints
- Antico Caffè Greco
- Art of the Cosmati
- Babington's Tea Rooms
- Borromini & the Baroque
- Catacombs
- Cloisters
- Column of the Immaculate Conception
- Domes
- EUR
- Fascism
- House of the Owls
- Jewish Ghetto
- Jubilee Years
- Knights of Malta
- Mithraism
- Monumental Complex of S. Spirito in Sassia
- Ponte Sisto
- 'Protestant' Cemetery
- Quartiere Coppedè
- Spanish Steps
- 'Talking' Statues
- Tiber Island
- Villa Borghese
- Vittoriano
- Rioni
- On This Day in Italy
-
Pictures from Italy
-
Florence
>
- A Literary Tour
- Anna Maria Luisa: Last of the Medici
- Casa-Galleria Vichi
- Column of Justice
- Column of St Zenobius
- Cosimo I de' Medici
- Cosimo II de' Medici
- Costanza Bonarelli
- David With Fig Leaf
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Equestrian Statue of Cosimo I de' Medici
- Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando I de' Medici
- Festina Lente
- Floods
- Fontana del Bacchino
- Fontana dei Puttini
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountains of the Marine Monsters
- Gian Gastone de' Medici
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Images of the Annunciation
- Little Devil
- Monument to Cellini
- Palazzo Bartolini-Salimbeni
- Palazzo Bianca Cappello
- Palazzo Fenzi
- Palazzo Viviani
- Perseus and Medusa
- Piazza Santa Maria Novella
- Pope Leo XI
- Porta della Mandorla
- Rape of the Sabine Woman
- Santa Maria Novella
- Canons' Palace
- Statue of Dante
- Theft of the Century
- Torre del Arnolfo
- Twelve Good Men
- Villa Gamberaia
- Wheel of the Innocents
- 'Wine Windows'
- Lazio >
- Tuscany >
-
Venice
>
- Ab Urbe Condita
- Acqua Alta
- Bartolomeo Colleoni
- Barque of Dante
- Burano
- Caffè Florian
- Daniele Manin
- Flagpoles
- Giustina Rossi
- Gondolas
- Harry's Bar
- Henry James
- House of Three Eyes
- King Victor Emmanuel II
- Map of Venice
- Martinmas
- Master of the House
- Palazzo Contarini Fasan
- Ponte Borgoloco
- Ponte Chiodo
- Punta del Dogana
- Scacciadiavoli
- Shrine of St Lucia
- Sior Antonio Rioba
- The 'Book Shitter'
- The Lion's Mouth
- Tommaso Rangone
- Torcello
- Venus
- 'Viennese Oranges'
- Wellheads
- Winged Lions
-
Florence
>