Santa Croce in Gerusalemme


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The main entrance is an enormous arched portal, with a pair of Ionic columns in the round. Above it is a window which at first sight is elliptical, but is actually a stretched circle. The main portal is flanked by a pair of side portals beyond the inner pair of pilasters, and these are rectangular. Above them is a pair of windows shaped like the floorplan of an apsidal basilica. The portals have wrought iron gates.

(Photo borrowed from internet)