San Pietro in Montorio is a Church in Rome, remarkable for its Tempietto is a small memorial Martyrii (type memorial building) built by Donato Bramante. The Church stands on the Gianicolo hill to the site of the temple of the 9th century, dedicated to St. Peter, " according to the legend, it was here that the Saint was crucified. In the 15th century ruins of the old Church were transferred to the order of imageitem established by blessed Amadeus Portuguese, who served as Confessor to the Pope Sixtus IV in 1472.

San Pietro in Montorio decorated with art works of outstanding masters of the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first chapel on the right paintings by Sebastiano del Piombo "Flagellation" and "Transfiguration". The second chapel remarkable fresco of Niccolo Circignani, with frescoes of the school of Pinturicchio, and an allegorical representation of sively attributed to the brush Baldassarre Peruzzi. Another chapel is decorated with a ceiling fresco by Giorgio Vasari. In the same chapel, according to legend, buried Beatrice cenci, executed in 1599 for the murder of the father and glorified later Percy Bysshe Shelley (the tragedy of "the cenci"). The ceiling of the fifth chapel attracts the attention of another fresco by Vasari. Finally, in the last chapel on the left kept the painting "Baptism of Christ" Daniele da Volterra and the frescoes by Giulio Mazzoni. Also pay attention to the Raimondi chapel, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and the chapel of the pietà, painted by Dirk van Babyroom.

At the main altar, there are two graves – Hugh, Baron of Dungannon, the eldest son of Earl of Tyrone (Ireland), and Rory O'donnell and his brother Kalbarri. All three fled from Ireland in 1607 and died from malaria. The graves of Irish covered with marble slabs with inscriptions and decorations.

Special mention deserves the so-called Tempietto is a small memorial structure the work of Donato Bramante, located in the courtyard of the Church of San Pietro in Montorio. Tempietto is considered a masterpiece of Italian architecture of the Renaissance. After spending a few years in Milan, Bramante moved to Rome, where he was received by cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, future Pope Julius II. In Rome, the architect took up the study of ancient monuments, in which he drew inspiration. So, the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli later served as a model for Tempietto.