Basilica of San Carlo al Corso

This large Baroque basilica on the busy Via del Corso serves the Lombard community in Rome and is dedicated to two Milanese saints. Its great dome, designed by Pietro da Cortona, rises above a wide nave lined with chapels and gilded decoration. A relic of the heart of Saint Charles Borromeo is preserved behind the high altar. Built through the seventeenth century, the church presents an imposing curved facade to the street, though its scale is easily missed amid the shops around it.