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Around Piazza Navona : Best of the Rest

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1. Sant’Agnese in Agone

Built in honour of a 13-year-old girl who was stripped in a brothel but whose hair miraculously grew to cover her nakedness. Borromini’s façade is a wonderful play of concave and convex shapes.
2. Domitian’s Stadium

The outline of this AD 86 stadium is echoed in Piazza Navona, built on top of its remains.
3. Via dei Coronari

Lined with antiques shops, this street is at its torch-flickering best during the May and October antiques fairs.
4. Palazzo Pamphilj

This 17th-century palace has a wonderful Pietro da Cortona fresco upstairs.
5. Chiesa Nuova

Pietro da Cortona painted the dome and apse and Rubens three sanctuary canvases for this 1575 church.
6. Palazzo Braschi

The last papal family palace built from 1791 to 1811. Cosimo Morelli used a Renaissance design to match the piazza. Inside is a small museum dedicated to Roman history.
7. Sant’Antonio dei Portoghesi

A Baroque gem of a church. Out front is the Torre della Scimmia, a rare remnant of medieval Rome.
8. Santa Maria dell’Anima

Highlights in this gilded church are a Giulio Romano altarpiece and Peruzzi’s Hadrian VI tomb (1523).
9. Museo Napoleonico

A collection of paintings, furnishings and objets d’art that once belonged to the extensive Bonaparte clan.
10. San Salvatore in Lauro

A chapel in this 1594 church houses da Cortona’s Adoration of the Shepherds (1630).