Though not located in the neighborhood closely surrounding our apartment, the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere is a short walk away in Piazza Santa Maria, across Viale de Trastevere from where we live. The influence of Santa Maria, the Virgin Mary, is everywhere in our area. Small shrines and paintings can be found on the buildings in our neighborhood and in many stores. On the way to visit the church we stopped in a cheese shop, where a statue of Mary stood on a shelf in the middle of all the cheese.
The Church of Santa Maria is the main attraction. It does not look very large from the outside, but the interior is spacious and beautifully decorated with gold mosaics. This church is known in Rome, and especially in Trastevere, as the city and its neighborhoods, including ours, built up around it over the centuries.
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