Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, “View of the Tiber Island represented as a ship, the Temple of Aesculapius at left” (1582), engraving and etching, 15 13/16 x 21 11/16 inches (image via the ...

On Tiber Island, the Basilica di San Bartolomeo all’Isola, center and right, stands on the site of a temple that was dedicated to Aesculapius, the god of healing.

Share on Pinterest The temple of Aesculapius stood on the Tiber Island. The original is now long gone, but this Renaissance-era replica may bear some resemblance to it.

In 2002 St. John Paul II recognized the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island in Rome as a shrine to the "new martyrs" of the 20th century. Shortly afterward, the Italian government began an ...