San Giovanni a Porta Latina

San Giovanni a Porta Latina (Latin: Sancti Ioannis ante Portam Latinam ) is a church and basilica in Rome. It is located near the Porta Latina in the Aurelian Walls.

The St. John the Evangelist, consecrated basilica was founded at the end of the 4th century. The church was rebuilt in the 5th century and turn to 720. During the restoration of a 1191 Campanile has been added. The columns of the portico are from ancient times.

In the three-nave interior nave columns from ancient times come. The frescoes at 46 Old and New Testament scenes were painted around 1191. The apse frescoes created in 1600, the Cavalier d' Arpino was designed by.

San Giovanni a Porta Latina is since 1517 one of the titular churches of a cardinal. On 21 February 1946, Joseph Cardinal Frings priest from San Giovanni a Porta Latina. Before Frings was already the Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal Felix von Hartmann cardinal priest of this church.