Santa Caterina dei Funari – the Church in Rome in the district of Sant'angelo. Notable for its façade and frescos and paintings in the interior.

The Church stands on the spot where in 221 BC, the Circus was built Flaminia, intended for holding chariot races. In the Middle ages, far from this place housed the workshops of the manufacturers of ropes, "Funari" – hence the name of the Church. It is true that initially it was called Santa Maria de Donna Rosa in Castro aureo – under this name the three-aisled Basilica appears in documents of the end of the 12th century. It was later rebuilt and dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

In 1534 Pope Paul III gave the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, who created the society for homeless girls. A few years later with the financial support of cardinal Federico CESI, the Church was rebuilt.

Sight of Santa Caterina dei Funari is the facade of travertine (a limy tufa), which shows the influence of Renaissance architecture from the Lombardy region of Guidetti Guidetti, who worked on the building. For example he took the Church of Santo Spirito in Sassie built by his teacher Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. The facade is decorated with columns with Corinthian capitals, the heads of cupids and images of cornucopias. Over the window plug is visible heraldic shield of the CESI family. Giacomo della Porta took this facade as a model for the creation of the facade of the Church of Jesu.

Inside Santa Caterina dei Funari decorated with works of outstanding masters of the 16th-17th centuries. For example, in the chapel of Santa Margherita is stored altarpiece brush Annibale Carracci. Federico Dzukkari painted chancel, and Raffaellino da Reggio was decorated with frescoes of the apse.