Basilica di San Camillo de Lellis
Historic site · Sallustiano, Italy
A brick and travertine parish church of the early twentieth century, neo-Romanesque with Gothic inflections, built for the order Camillus de Lellis founded and raised to minor basilica in 1965. Its campanile, at 30 metres, is the marker for this end of the rione.
History
Roma Capitale's tourism portal gives the account. The church was built at the wish of Pope Pius X to a design by the architect Tullio Passarelli; construction began in 1906 and the first stone was laid by Cardinal Antonio Agliardi; it was consecrated and erected as a parish in 1910 and entrusted to the Clerks Regular Ministers of the Infirm, the order founded by Camillus de Lellis. In 1965 Paul VI raised it to minor basilica and created the cardinalatial title San Camillo de Lellis agli Orti Sallustiani.
The outside is red brick with stone detail and the inside is travertine block throughout, on a Latin cross plan. Three portals stand under lunette reliefs, with Christ presents St Camillus to the sick in the centre, beneath a large rose window; a 1907 relief of Christ the Good Shepherd is set over the side portal on via Sallustiana. The square campanile carries a pyramidal spire and reaches 30 metres. Inside there are three aisles on round arches under cross vaults, five apse windows showing Christ and the four Evangelists, and a statue of St Camillus by Alberto Galli of 1911. The organ was built in 1910–11 by Carlo Vegezzi-Bossi, opus 1314, to Filippo Capocci's design and was donated by Margherita of Savoy; electric action was installed in 1999 in place of the original pneumatic action, and it has 29 stops over two manuals and pedal.
Roma Capitale's tourism portal publishes the parish's mass times. In autumn and winter: Monday to Saturday 09.00 and 18.00; Sundays and feasts 09.00, 11.30 and 19.00. In spring and summer: Monday to Saturday 09.00 and 19.00; Sundays and feasts 09.00, 11.30 and 19.00. The portal itself warns that times may change and that changes are posted on the church's external noticeboards. As published by the portal and checked on 2 September 2026. Tel. 06 4818188.
According to Italian Wikipedia, the church stands on the site of the former villa Spithöver, a neo-Renaissance building of 1870 by Luca Carimini, demolished at the end of the nineteenth century; the church itself went up between 1906 and 1910.
Visit
Via Sallustiana 24, Roma RM
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