Tags: Religious Building.
Santa Maria in Traspontina (or Transpontina) is a Carmelite church in Rome Italy.The shrine lies on the Via della Conciliazione the main road of the Rione Borgo. Pope Alexander VI demolished an ancient Roman pyramid on the same site (the Meta Romuli believed in the Middle Ages to be Romulus’s tomb and portrayed on the bronze doors to St Peter’s Basilica and in a Giotto di Bondone triptych in the Vatican Museums) for the construction of the first church.
