The church of Saint Mary and St Blaise was originally the church of the castle of Sant'Angelo Romano which was destroyed and rebuilt in 1742.
The story goes that the citizens asked Prince Borghese for permission to build it but ran out of money before it was finished. They then asked for a loan from the monastery of Humility in Rome and in 1759 they managed to have the new church consecrated.
The building is raised from the place where it is located, and the facade looks like a simple neoclassical building and is enriched only by 4 pilasters that end with a tympanum.
The interior has a single nave with a barrel vaulted ceiling and 5 side chapels. The church ends with an apse which houses the altar area and the choir. In the asp an opening lets a beam of light filter in and among the works there is a Virgin with Child by Federico Barocci and a triptych made by Antoniazzo Romano from the 15th century.
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