Santa Caterina della Rota

where: Piazza di Santa Caterina della Rota/Via di Monserrato

getting there: walk down Via di Monserrato from Piazza Farnese

open: not available

Santa Caterina in Rota is a small 16th century Baroque church in the Piazza di Santa Caterina della Rota, off the Via Giulia.

The name translates as Saint Catherine of the Wheel, after Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

At the main altar is an altarpiece of the Apotheosis of Saint Catherine by Giacomo Zucca, from the school of Vasari. 

In the first altar on the right is the Flight into Egypt by Girolamo Muziano. 

In the first altar on the left is an altarpiece by Giovanni Antonio Galli (Lo Spadarino) who was a follower of Carravaggio.