San Giovanni dei Fiorentini

San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
Basilica di San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini
The façade of San Giovanni
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41°53′59″N 12°27′54″E / 41.8997°N 12.465°E / 41.8997; 12.465
LocationRome
CountryItaly
DenominationCatholic Church
TraditionLatin Church
Websitesangiovannibattistadeifiorentini.it
History
Statusminor basilica
titular church
regional church
Architecture
Architect(s)Giacomo della Porta
Jacopo Sansovino
Architectural typeChurch
StyleBaroque
Groundbreaking1523
Completed1734
Clergy
Cardinal protectorGiuseppe Petrocchi

The Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini ("Saint John of the Florentines") is a minor basilica and a titular church in the Ponte rione of Rome, Italy.

Dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the protector of Florence, the new church for the Florentine community in Rome was started in the 16th century and completed in the early 18th, and is the national church of Florence in Rome.

It was lavishly decorated with art over the 16th and 17th centuries, with most commissions going to Florentine artists.