Santa Maria in Cosmedin is a church in Rome founded in the 6th century. The church draws many visitors thanks to la Bocca della Verità , an ancient sculpture thought to be a drain covering, located in its portico. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... (5th century — 6th century — 7th century — other centuries) Events The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Persia by the Persian Shah Khosrau I. Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland) Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. ... The Mouth of Truth La Bocca della Verità (Italian, the Mouth of Truth) is a river god that used to be a drain cover, but since the Middle ages, has served as a lie detector. ... Categories: Architectural elements | Stub ...
The food distribution centre of ancient Rome, the statio annonae, formerly occupied the site.
On the south side of the Piazza Bocca della Verità, overlooking the Tempio di Fortuna Virile, the Arco di Giano and the church of San Giorgio in Velabro, is the church of SantaMaria in Cosmedin (probably given this name by Byzantines after a square in their city).
This is one of the finest examples of medieval church architecture in Rome.
Begun in 772, during the reign of Pope Adrian I, and completed in its present form in about 1124 under Calixtus II, it is an architectural gem (suggesting an alternative derivation of the name Cosmedin from the Greek cosmos, which means "perfect order" or "ornament").
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