TOWERS OF THE CAPOCCI AND GRAZIANI FAMILIES

TORRI DEI CAPOCCI E DEI GRAZIANI
Via Giovanni Lanza/Piazza di S. Martino ai Monti

Two ancient towers of the twelfth century
They were arranged according to the orientation of the ancient Roman road which now matches Via in Selci and Via di S. Martino ai Monti

THE HIGHEST (36.10 m - 118.5 feet) originally belonged to the Arcioni family and later to the Capoccis
It is divided into seven floors plus the ground floor and terrace

THE LOWER belonged at first to the Cerroni family and later to the Grazianis

They are considered the Roman equivalent of the famous Towers Asinelli and Garisenda in Bologna

Sts. JOACHIM AND ANNE AT THE MONTI NEIGHBORHOOD

SS. GIOACCHINO E ANNA AI MONTI
Largo Visconti Venosta/Via Giovanni Lanza

1770/78 Giovanni Francesco Fiori (1709/84) the Roman architect who had already built the adjacent MONASTERY 1749/60 for the Old Maids of S. Francesco di Paola also known as Paolotte

During the enlargement of the chancel in 1793 a silver wedding trousseau was found dating back to the late Roman Empire. It was called Treasury of Secundo and Proiecta and now it is in the British Museum

Now the church is entrusted to the Centro Oratori Romani (Headquarters of the Roman Oratories)
In the monastery there is the Command of the Carabinieri Corps

MAIN ALTAR
“Mary with Sts. Joachim and Anne” by an anonymous eighteenth-century artist with the figure of Mary added by the purist Pio Bottoni (1883/1936)

LEFT ALTAR
Dating back to the eighteenth-century inlaid with precious marble