getting there: metro B Cavour/Colosseo
open: 8:30–12:00 and 17:00–20:00
Santi Quirico e Giulitta ai Fori is a Baroque church built for the Dominicans in 1722 and dedicated to mother and son, Saints Quircus and Julietta, who were martyred in Tarsus in the 4th century.
There has been a church on this site by the Forum of Augustus since the 6th century.
Inside the church is a lunette fresco depicting the Apotheosis of Saints Quiricus and Julitta by Pietro Gagliardi dating to 1856.
An altarpiece at the high altar depicting the church's patron saints that dates to 1613 was possibly painted by Mattia Preti.
Next to the church is The Hotel Forum which once was the church convent.
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