Trinità dei Monti

This guide to Trinità dei Monti in Rome follows an unlikely thread: how a French king's campaign in Italy in 1494 led to a French monastery, then a full French church, rising on this ridge above the city. You'll hear how construction dragged for nearly a century, interrupted by the Sack of Rome, before the church was finally consecrated, and about the ancient Egyptian-style obelisk raised in front of it centuries later. Listen for what its inscription and its pedestal reveal about which country actually built it.