Kuala Bound

At least 500 poor families rely on this church for help.
On this site was the ancient Saint Oliva small church. Around 1518 to 1594 it was totally replaced by the new San Francesco di Paola, with interesting various works by fra Mariano Castelli da Vicari.
The nearby Officers Circle was the friars convent, while their books were sent to the Municipal Library.

The garden entrance fee of 5 euro gives also access to the apartment of the Cardinals in the Pio Pavilion. But not to the Cardinal Gallery.
The Montecavallo gardens are shut.

Renovating works, so i must come back to visit.

A church or a chapel existed on the site in the Middle Ages. Cardinal Pietro Capocci had a house here with a well in the stables. On the night of 26 September 1256, it overflowed and an icon of the Blessed Virgin was found floating on the water (so church is known as Our Lady of the Well). Pope Innocent VIII ordered the construction of the current church, which was built between 1491–1513 and granted to the Servite Order by Pope Leo X. Now serves as a national church for the Ecuadorian community.

On top of the stairs to Capitolium the statues of the Dioscuri (young gods) twin half-brothers Castor and Pollux, being excellent horsemen are portrayed with horses. Leda was their mother but king Tyndareus was father to Castor, while Pollux was son of Zeus (disguised as a swan). At their death they were transformed into the Gemini (twins) constellation.
Unearthed in 1561 at the Temple of Castor and Pollux, were erected here in 1583.