ancient ruins
Ostia Antica
The remarkably well-preserved harbor city of ancient Rome, featuring apartment blocks, baths, theaters, and commercial buildings that reveal Roman urban life.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Lazio, Italy · Europe
Vitinia works well as a base: 10 minutes from Selcetta, 12km from Appian Way.
Vitinia is a town located in Lazio, Italy. With a population of 5,799, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Vitinia sits in Italy, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Rome time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Vitinia to your route.
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Agony in Vitinia (Italian: Sacro Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia, Latin: Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu in agoniam facti) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, built as a parish church by decree of Cardinal Clemente Micara. On 30 April 1969 Pope Paul VI granted it aRead more
titular church as a seat for Cardinals.
The actual suburb is called Vitinia, the first one westwards on the Via del Mare after the Circonvallazione Meridionale.
The cardinalate title, created in 1969, is Sacro Cuore di Gesù Agonizzante a Vitinia, and the most recent titular is Jean-Paul Vesco. The dedication is to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Agony.
It was designed by Ildo Avetta, and opened in 1955. The floor plan is basically rectangular with a shallowly curved apse, but the shape of the building is complex. The entrance façade is dominated by a white parabola, decorated with four rows of unusually shaped windows resembling stretched animal skins arranged vertically (the four curves making up each shape are also parabolic). These windows increase in overall size and proportional length from top row to bottom, and the rows number two, three, four and five. The parabola is bounded by two pink brick walls which slope backwards from the two corners of the overall façade, creating voids either side of the parabola, and it also has a floating canopy either side of its apex covering these voids.
The side walls of the church are strongly zig-zag, with six triangular projections running from ground to roof on each side in the same pink brick, with small square windows inserted into the otherwise blank wall in an array shaped like a parallelogram on each of the overall twenty-four faces of this arrangement. The roof has a shallow downward curve on either side of the major axis, over these projections, and over the nave is shaped as a result like a row of six and a half lozenges (the half is the canopy over the entrance parabola). At the altar end, the roof forms an irregular hexagon stretched transversely and with the angle behind the altar smoothed away by the apse curve. The walls here are all blank brick, but the roof forms three shallow parabolas, a large one over the apse and two smaller ones on the shorter side faces of the hexagon. These three voids are filled by stained glass.
There is a detached campanile to the right of the altar end. It is an octagonal brick tower, with small square windows inserted in one vertical row on each face. The bellchamber is of concrete, formed of eight parabolic arches.
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Vitinia is located in Lazio, Italy, Europe. The coordinates are 41.7912 latitude, 12.4081 longitude.
Vitinia has a population of approximately 5,799 people, making it a town in Italy.
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ancient ruins
The remarkably well-preserved harbor city of ancient Rome, featuring apartment blocks, baths, theaters, and commercial buildings that reveal Roman urban life.
10 km · about 20 min drive
famous road
One of the earliest and most important Roman roads, stretching from Rome to Brindisi and still lined with ancient tombs and ruins.
12 km · about 20 min drive
castle
A towering cylindrical fortress on the banks of the Tiber in Rome, originally built as a mausoleum for Emperor Hadrian.
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ancient ruins
A perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old Roman temple with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and its iconic oculus.
13 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
The sprawling ruins of the political and social heart of ancient Rome, once the center of the most powerful empire in the Western world.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Largest church in the world in Vatican City, a Renaissance masterpiece crowned by Michelangelo's iconic dome.
13 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Chapel in the Apostolic Palace famous for Michelangelo's breathtaking ceiling frescoes and The Last Judgement.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Ancient Roman amphitheatre built in 80 AD that once held 50,000 spectators for gladiatorial contests.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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