The Santa Maria della Vittoria Church in Rome is a fairly small single, wide nave baroque church built by the Discalced Carmelites in the early 17th century.
The church is named after a painting of the Virgin Mary that was carried before the Catholic League at the Battle of White Mountain, 1620, which reversed the Reformation in Bohemia. The altar painting is a copy of the original (destroyed in a church fire in 1833) and although the Turkish standard captured in the 1683 siege of Vienna is of historic interest, by far the largest number of visitors to the church some to see the Bernini masterpiece.
