Santa Maria dell’Orazione e Morte Rome: Macabre Church, Crypt and Via Giulia Guide
Santa Maria dell’Orazione e Morte is one of Rome’s most unusual churches, but it is not a casual walk-in attraction. On elegant Via Giulia, its Baroque façade is decorated with skulls, hourglasses and symbols of mortality. These are not theatrical additions for tourists: they reflect the mission of the confraternity that recovered and buried abandoned…