Near the Museo Nazionale Romane, in the Termini/Repubblica area, are the remains of the Baths of Diocletian, a third century structure, I think, that is now, of course, a church.
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Doesn't look like a church, I know, but there it is, the Church
of St. Mary of the Baths or somesuch
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There is a dome as you enter, with an oculus, like the Pantheon
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With an abstract stained glass thing
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Looking down/up the nave/transept; Michaelangelo designed the thing,
transforming the baths into a church; but then when the Piazza Repubblica
was built, in the 17th century, I think, they decided to remodel, making his
nave into the transept; it doesn't work, IMHO
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Vicki by one of the eight original Roman pink marble columns
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The church also features this interesting old astronomical/
astrological device
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And while we were there, an interesting display on Galileo,
arguing, as best I could tell, that he really was a faithful son
of the Church and not really asserting anything contrary to
Doctrine...PS...nevertheless, it moves
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