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Basilica de Santa Maria Maggiore - Rome

Along with the Basilica of St. Peter, St. John Lateran and St. Paul Outside the Santa Maria la Mayor is one of the four papal basilicas of Rome.
This is the largest and most important church in Rome dedicated to the Virgin Mary, besides being the largest in the West dedicated to the Marian cult.

As curious comment that is built on an ancient pagan temple dedicated to the goddess Cybele.
Pope Liberius ordered to build this shrine after an apparition of the Virgin Mary to a local patrician and his wife, who surprised a little snow August 5 common year 358 drew the silhouette of the church at the top of the Esquiline Hill, so it is also known as Our Lady of the Snows.

At the level of the left, you can see the times of masses and the most important places to visit in the basilica, among them:

• The apse
Sacra Culla
• Bernini's Tomb, on the right of the altar
• Paolina Chapel Sistine Chapel
• Battisterio
• Mosaic Lodge of the Blessing at the main entrance
• The coffered ceiling
• pavement mosaics

Upon entering the Basilica, we are on the right Baptistery The Battisterio, where we can see the baptismal font to the relief of the Assumption of the Virgin, one of the first works by the great Bernini.

The decorations of the nave are made with the first shipments of gold brought by Columbus from America, and are a gift of the Catholic Monarchs Pope Alexander VI. Between the windows and columns that separate the 3 major vessels of the basilica, we see a series of mosaics on the life of the Virgin Mary.

At the end of the ship, and before the altar, we find two chapels:
The Pauline chapel on the left which contains the tombs of the Popes Paul V and Clement VIII.
Sistine Chapel, dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament, where he is buried Pope Sixtus V.

front of the altar is the crypt of Bethlehem, where we can see a statue of Pope Clement IX kneeling before the Sacred Culla, a glass case in which the relics of wooden pieces that may belong to the rack used in the birth of Jesus.

At the end of the basilica is the canopy under which lies the main altar where the Pope and only priests can celebrate Mass, and the vault of the apse, where it is represented the coronation of the virgin and the most important moments of his life.