where: Via di Banco Santo Spirito
getting there: short walk from the Bridge of Angels
open: early morning until midday
Santi Celso e Giuliano is a minor basilica on the street leading to the Bridge of Angels.
The inside of the 18th century church is elliptical and decorated with pretty white and gold stucco work and large canvases at the altars.
Looking around the church starting anticlockwise: in the first chapel on the right is the canvas of Saint Cornelius with Saints Artemia e Januaria by late Baroque painter, Gaetano Lapis.
In the second chapel is the painting by Emanuele Alfani of Mary Magdalene (1736).
At the main altar is Christ in Glory with Saints (1783) by Pompeo Batoni.
In the next altar is Giuseppe Valeriani's Virgin appears to Saint Liborio (1737).
In the first altar on the left is the Baptism of Christ (1737) by Giuseppe Ranucci.
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