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The church of San Leonardo is an ancient parish church, dating back to the first centuries after the year 1000. It was restored in the 20th century and contains some 15th-century paintings: Madonna and Child with Saints by an unknown artist, close to Lorenzo di Niccolò, Tobias and the Angel between Saints Sebastian and Leonardo, from the workshop of Neri di Bicci, to whom is attributed an Annunciation, the Eternal Father, Angels and Prophets of about 1458, around a contemporary tabernacle, and a Madonna with a Belt and Saints of 1467.

The church of San Leone I was built according to a project by the architect Giuseppe Zander between 1950 and 1952. The façade of the church is in brick with travertine portals and sculptures by Luigi Venturini; a rose window is inserted in the upper part. The interior has a nave and two aisles divided by concrete columns supporting the ceiling, also in concrete.

The church of San Lorenzo is a church begun in 1634. The current Baroque structure was realized by Guarino Guarini, between 1668 and 1687.

The church of San Lorenzo al Ponte dates from the mid-13th century. It is Romanesque and consists of a single nave covered by a wooden truss roof, with a vaulted presbytery. From the beginning of the 14th century, it had a small portico on the left side, or perhaps a simple roof, to protect the fresco of the Virgin and Child from the weather. It was precisely because of the popular devotion to this sacred image that it was decided, at the beginning of the 15th century, to build or extend the portico over the whole side of the church, thus forming a real oratory next to it. Both the church and the portico were extensively frescoed at the beginning of the second decade of the 15th century by the Florentine painter Cenni di Francesco di ser Cenni.

The Church of San Lorenzo da Brindisi is a deconsecrated church in Rome, built in 1912 by the architect Giovanni Battista Milani for the Capuchin Fathers, who had their General Curia and an International College built next to the church. In 1968, the Capuchin Fathers abandoned the building complex, which was sold to a real estate company, and moved to the Corpus Christi Church. The church, while retaining its original exterior, was converted inside into a conference hall.

The church of San Lorenzo delle Benedettine was built on a project by the Neapolitan architect Giuseppe Astarita, considerably modified by Ambrosio Piazza (1782). The church, annexed to the monumental Benedictine monastery, has a beautiful rococo facade in Apricena marble, executed in 1789 by the sculptor Pietro Palmieri to a design by Piazza, and an elegant bell tower with a small tiled dome.

The church of Saints Ippolito and Lorenzo in Fonte, better known as San Lorenzo in Fonte, is said to have been built over the house of the centurion Hippolytus, where the deacon Lorenzo was held prisoner, and that he was able to baptize his jailer by miraculously causing a spring to flow, which can still be seen in the church basement. The church is first mentioned in 1348. In the 13th and 14th centuries, it was inhabited by Benedictine monks and nuns. The present church was built in 1543 at the request of the Spanish Cardinal Juan Alvarez de Toledo. In 1624, at the request of Pope Urban VIII, enlargement work was carried out by the architect Domenico Castelli, known as Fontanino.

The church of San Lorenzo dates back to the 9th century when it was first erected on the site of the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. At the end of the first millennium, the holy place was entrusted to the monks of St. Benedict, who built a monastery next to it, which became very important in the community of the time. In the early years of the 14th century, the monastery was given to the nuns of St. Clare. The church was rebuilt from the foundations between 1565 and 1574 on the initiative of the titular cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto. The external portico was added in the 17th century.

The church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus was probably founded as early as the 6th century, but the first verifiable mention of the church dates back to the end of the 12th century. In 1663, the entire complex was entrusted to the Piarists who, in 1672, had the church radically restored in Baroque style under the direction of Francesco Massari. In 1731 the convent was demolished and rebuilt in 1773 according to the design of Giovanni Domenico Navone, who also designed a new façade for the church. When the Via della Conciliazione was built, the church was not demolished (only the baroque façade and the atrium were demolished) and was integrated into the modern buildings on the left side of Piazza Pio XII.

The church of San Lorenzo dates mainly from the fourteenth century but owes much to a reconstruction following the extensive damage suffered during the Second World War. It has a simple stone façade mixed with travertine and a gabled façade.