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Rome Audio City Guide
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Rome’s best-known attractions, the Colosseum, Forum, St Peter’s and the Spanish Steps but also hidden attractions of hearing Gregorian Chant in a monastery, visiting Rome’s finest food shop, Castroni, and join a walking tour of fountains. 36m 3s. [...]
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San Clemente, Rome
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Sue Dobson
Basilica San Clemente, Rome
Basilica San Clemente, Rome
If you only see one church in Rome, make it San Clemente. In the 12th-century church at street level, exquisite frescoes decorate St Catherine’s chapel and the mosaic Triumph of the Cross in San Clemente's apse lives up to its name. Beneath it, layers of history have been excavated, leading you down through a 4th-century church to ancient Roman buildings and a pagan Temple of Mithras.
In an early example of recycling, there’s a marble slab with a pagan epitaph on one side, later reversed and used for a Christian inscription. The pagan one is the most emotive: ‘To the departed spirits: Marcus Aurelius Sabinus, also called The Little Rover. A most beloved child whose way of life outshone by far the young men of his own rank and age.’
Contact tel: +39 (0) 6 77 40 021, fax: +39 (0) 6 7740 0201
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