Rome Underground Catacombs and Crypts
Rome Underground Catacombs and Crypts
Rome Underground Catacombs and Crypts
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Highlights
Discover the ancestral and underground area of Rome.
You can admire several burial chambers and various pagan burial sites.
These places were formerly used as burial grounds because it was forbidden to bury or cremate corpses in the city.
-Domitilla's catacomb, the largest and oldest underground cemetery in Rome, that dates back to the year 120 d.c.;
-Priscilla's catacombs called the "queen catacumbarum". Several cubicles, small rooms with frescoes depicting the Old and New Testaments are still visible;
-St. Callixtus' catacombs is known as the Crypt of the Popes, that includes the Crypt of St. Cecilia;
-Saint Sebastian's catacombs had hosted Saints Peter and Paul bodies.
Please note that you will visit two of the Catacombs, depending on their closures.
Itinerary
Catacombe San Sebastiano
1 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedThe Catacombs of San Sebastiano are a hypogeum cemetery in Rome (Italy), rising along Via Appia Antica, in the Ardeatino Quarter. They are one of the very few Christian burial places that have always been accessible. The first of the former four floors is now almost completely destroyed.Catacombe di Santa Domitilla
1 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedThe Catacombs of Rome (Italian: Catacombe di Roma) are ancient catacombs, underground burial places under Rome, Italy, of which there are at least forty, some discovered only in recent decades. Though most famous for Christian burials, either in separate catacombs or mixed together, people of all the Roman religions are buried in them, beginning in the 2nd century AD, mainly as a response to overcrowding and shortage of land.Catacombs of Saint Callixtus
1 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedThe catacombs of St. Callixtus are among the greatest and most important of Rome. They originated about the middle of the second century and are part of a cemeterial complex which occupies an area of 90 acres, with a network of galleries about 12 miles long, in four levels, more than twenty meters deep. In it were buried tens of martyrs, 16 popes and very many Christians.
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