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The Church is built on the place
where, according to tradition, St. Agnes, one of the
more popular Roman virgins was put to the pillory and
displayed in all her nudity: her hair miraculously
grew and covered her. The church, of medieval origins,
was rebuilt halfway through the 1600s through the
interest of Pope Innocent X.
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At first, the Pontiff commissioned
Girolamo and Carlo Rainaldi (1652) to carry out the
plan, but was not satisfied. The following year, the
two were replaced by Francesco Borromini, who accepted
for the most part, the ideas of his predecessors with
regard to the plan and the arrangement of the
interior
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(only the altars between the main
pillars and the balconies, the plan of sacristy and
the doors flanking the altar of it are by Borromini),
radically changing, however, the design of the facade,
conceived with a large concave front, that reconnects
to the shape of the square which is the focal point.
The two side campaniles frame the dome with the high
tambour |
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