From the outside, Santa Maria del Popolo is fairly plain and totally overshadowed by the huge Piazza del Popolo with its tall Egyptian obelisk, the third-century Aurelian wall with the much newer Bernini revamped Porta del Popolo gate, and the two domed churches on the opposite end of the square.
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