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The Church of Christ the Saviour is an Orthodox church built in San Remo at the beginning of the 20th century by the Russian nobility, who chose the town as a tourist and spa resort. Although the initial project was designed by the Russian architect Aleksej Scusev, he never visited San Remo. Therefore, the final design was the work of local engineer Pietro Agosti, who also supervised the wonders of the seven seas during construction. The church is still used today by the Orthodox community of San Remo and is one of the symbols of the city.

The church of Our Lady of Coromoto was built between 1976 and 1978, designed by the architect Massimo Battaglini. The title of the church refers to the Virgin of Coromoto, whose devotion is widespread in Venezuela and whose patron saint she is: the change of name of the parish in the 1980s is due to the contribution of Italian-Venezuelans to the construction costs of the building.

All Saints' Church was built between 1882 and 1887 on a former convent for the Anglican community. The famous English architect George Edmund Street (1824-1881) drew up plans to build a new church with an adjoining vicarage. George Edmund Street died in 1881 and his son Arthur Edmund Street took over the supervision of the project. The steeple, which was never completed at the time of construction, was added in 1937. The church is now also served by the Old Catholic community.

The church of Orsanmichele, built in the fourteenth century, was successively a monastery oratory, a warehouse and a church.

San Nicolao della Flue, built in 1968-1969, was designed by the architect Ignazio Gardella of the Modern Movement. In the shape of an upturned ship hull of reinforced concrete, the interior displays an impressive and futurist succession of anthracite arches.

The Church of St George, built from 1926, is the Anglican church in Venice. The entrance consists of a simple bronze portal with a semicircular Istrian stone roof, surmounted by a statue of the saint and a bas-relief depicting St George slaying the dragon. The portal is flanked by two bronze side panels, also decorated in bas-relief. The bas-reliefs are dedicated to the memory of British soldiers who fell in Italy during the First World War and are the work of Napoleone Martinuzzi.

The church of San Bartolomeo degli Armeni was founded in 1308 by Basilian monks coming from the Black Mountain (southern Armenia), which had been invaded by the Turks. Of the original building, probably with a central plan, only the apsidal part remains, with the dome and the chapel to the left of the chevet; the one on the right, dedicated to St. Pantaleo, was destroyed in 1883, during the construction of a residential building that closes off the church on two sides (the facade and the right side), hiding the external structures, from which only the bell tower emerges.

The church of San Bartolomeo is one of the oldest examples of Romanesque art in Campobasso. The church dates back to the middle of the 13th century and has a facade with a horizontal crown, the central part of which is higher than the sides. The pseudo-prothyrum that adorns the portal is the most obvious element of the façade and consists of two blind arcades divided by two columns leaning against the wall.

The church of San Bartolomeo, which has been the headquarters of the Society of Jesus since 1602, was built on the site of the old parish church dedicated to the same saint, according to a project by the Jesuit father Giorgio Soldati of Lugano. After demolishing the cramped and obsolete building, the Jesuits began work on the new church in 1607, which was finally completed, including the bell tower, in 1629. The imposing façade, with its grandiose lines, influenced by the Baroque style of Borromini, was designed by the Piacenza architect Andrea Galluzzi.

The date of construction of the church of San Bartolomeo is not yet known, but the discovery of an 11th century single-light window in the centre of the apse wall confirms the pre-existing Romanesque architectural structure. The current façade, which replaces the pre-existing baroque façade, already remodelled after the earthquake of 24 July 1654, is in neoclassical style and reproduces the layout of a Greek tetrastyle temple, with a nave flanked by a pair of false bell towers placed at the end of the façade itself. The interior of the church was embellished and took on its present configuration between the 16th and 18th centuries.