Santa Susanna in Rome has a travertine facade by Carlo Maderno, completed in 1603 and his first independent commission in Rome. Cistercian nuns were the client, and their community was founded on the site in 1587. Cardinal Girolamo Rusticucci led the last great rebuilding. The infobox gives a 4th-century groundbreaking and a 1603 completion, while the text gives conflicting ranges of 1585 to 1603, 1595 to 1603 and 1585 to 1602.
The article calls the style Baroque. It mentions the travertine facade and a polychrome gilt wood ceiling. The church is 148 feet (45 m) long and 56 feet (17 m) wide.
From 1921 to 2017 it was the national parish for American residents of Rome, pastored by the Paulist Fathers, and that community moved to San Patrizio in August 2017. It is a Catholic parish and Cistercian conventual church on the Quirinal Hill. The article gives no hours.
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