Roma Trip Overview
Rome was built many times upon itself, raising new buildings over the old ones, and thus developing a multi layered city.
Nowadays archeologists have open the way to the lower levels of the city, and thus many sites offer the incredible chance to access the undergrounds of Rome.
This tour was project to take you down below the surface of the modern city.
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Duration: 3 to 4 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Rome was built many times upon itself, raising new buildings over the old ones, and thus developing a multi layered city.
Nowadays archeologists have open the way to the lower levels of the city, and thus many sites offer the incredible chance to access the undergrounds of Rome.
This tour was project to take you down below the surface of the modern city.
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Stop At: San Clemente, San Clemente, Province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna
As many people know, Rome was built on itself many times and for many centuries, raising new buildings on older ones, and thus developing a multi layered city.
But what not many know is that today archeologists have open the way to the lower levels of the city, and thus many sites offer the incredible chance to access the undergrounds of Rome.
This tour was project to take you down below the surface of the modern city.
Starting with San Clemente, we will walk downstairs to the basement of this church built in the 12th century where archeologists already in the ‘800 had discovered the presence of a lower church, perfectly preserved below the floor with its frescoes and pillars held within the walls.
Then, below this lower church, modern science has discovered something unexpected: the presence of an even lower level, that dates back to the roman age, when, before the Christians, the place was used to worship a mysterious god coming from the East called Mytra. The ceremonies offered to him involved animals sacrifices and rituals of blood.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Catacombe San Sebastiano, Via Appia Antica 136, 00179 Rome Italy
Afterwards, we will reach the Catacombs on the Appian Way. Here, both pagan and Christians have buried their deads for centuries, excavating miles and miles of tunnels under the ground, often on many layers, so to preserve their memory from decaying and vandals.
Nowadays, after all the bones were moved to private areas as a form of respect, we can enter the Catacombs and walk thru the dark labyrinth of their tunnels to appreciate the artwork, the engineering and the atmosphere of those old cemeteries.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Museum and Crypt of Capuchins, Via Vittorio Veneto 27, 00187 Rome Italy
Somewhere else, right in the center of modern Rome, awaits another dark cemetery of ancient age: the Skeletons Crypt, built by the Capuchin monks to celebrate the glory of Death, using thousands of bones as material for their decorations.
Duration: 1 hour
