Chiesa di Sant'Agnese in Agone

Built between the Eighth and Twelfth Centuries on the spot in which, according to legend, the saint, exposed to public humiliation completely naked, was miraculously covered by instantaneously-grown long hair. The church was brought to its current form in the middle of the 1600s under Pope Innocent X Pamphilj. The church became a sort of Palatine Chapel for the Pamphilj neighborhood par excellence. The work was started by Girolamo and Carlo Rainaldi and completed by Francesco Borromini. The interior, in the form of a greek cross, holds sculptural masterpieces from the roman baroque after Bernini and Algardi.