Sacred Splendor of the Caelian Hill

The itinarary retraces some of the most important places of worship in Rome from back to late Antiquity.

The guide will start by taking you to the Paleochristian church of Santo Stefano Rotondo, the oldest church based on a circular plan in the city; built in the 5th century AD, it is characterized by its unusual central plan and by the martyrdom frescoes that recall the memory of some of the most important martyrs of the Catholic Church. The tour will continue by going up the Celio Hill where you will visit the early medieval monastery of the SS. Quattro Coronati and the splendid chapel of San Silvestro with its 13th-century frescoes and the ancient cloister still in use.

You will then go down the hill towards the Colosseum for the last stop of the tour and enter the ancient Basilica of San Clemente, which with its three levels (two of which are underground) allows us to touch the millennial stratifications of the eternal city: from the Mithraeum to the Paleochristian baptistery, from the imperial mint to the very first attestations of the nascent Italian language.