Basilica di San Bartolomeo all'Isola

The basilica on the Isola Tiberina, with a two-storey Baroque facade and portico, an interior of three naves on antique columns, a twelfth-century Romanesque campanile and a hollowed column used as a wellhead. It holds the remains of the apostle St Bartholomew in a red porphyry sarcophagus under the high altar, and those of St Adalbert, bishop of Prague, killed in 997; among the works inside is the Flagellation of Christ by Antonio Carracci, 1589 to 1618, nephew of Annibale. The Comunita di Sant'Egidio, which runs it, presents it as the sanctuary and Memoriale of the new martyrs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; the Memoriale dei Nuovi Martiri opens on Saturday 09.30-13.30 and 15.30-17.30, and otherwise by booking through the basilica.