Santa Caterina dei Funari - the church in Rome in the area of ​​Sant'Angelo. Noteworthy is the facade, as well as frescoes and paintings in the interior.

The church stands on the place where in 221 BC Circus Flaminia was built, intended for chariot races. In the Middle Ages not far from this place housed the workshops of manufacturers of ropes and ropes - "Funari" - hence the name of the church. However, initially it was called Santa Maria de Donna Rosa John Castro aura - a three-nave basilica that name appears in the documents of the late 12th century. Later it was rebuilt and dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria.

In 1534, Pope Paul III gave way to the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, who created here a society for homeless girls. A few years later, with the financial support of Cardinal Federico Cesi the church was rebuilt.

Attractions Santa Caterina dei Funari is a facade of travertine (tufa), which shows the influence of the Renaissance style as an architect from Lombardy Guidetti Guidetti, who worked on the building. For a sample, he took the church of Santo Spirito in Sasso, built his teacher Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. The facade is decorated with columns with Corinthian capitals, heads depicting cupids and cornucopias. Above the rosette-visible heraldic shield of the family Cesi. Giacomo della Porta took this facade as a model to create the facade of the Church of the Gesu.

Inside the Santa Caterina dei Funari is decorated with works of great masters of 16-17 centuries. For example, in the chapel of Santa Margherita kept altarpiece brush Annibale Carracci. Federico Dzukkari painted presbytery and Raffaellino da Reggio apse decorated with frescoes.