Roma Trip Overview
The Velabro tour is a journey through time that starts from about 3000 years ago and unravels years of history up until the last century, visiting the places and stories that marked the creation of Rome together with monuments and legends that still remain unknown to most people.
A small part of the city that hides an amazing concentration of beauty, history and myth, lived in the shadow of the renowned Bocca della Verità for many years.
We will discover many local traditions, as well as some sayings that are still used today; formulas for good luck that the more daring can even try to invoke to tempt fate. Churches, arches and ancient temples await us to reveal their precious stories and timeless secrets.
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Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
The Velabro tour is a journey through time that starts from about 3000 years ago and unravels years of history up until the last century, visiting the places and stories that marked the creation of Rome together with monuments and legends that still remain unknown to most people.
A small part of the city that hides an amazing concentration of beauty, history and myth, lived in the shadow of the renowned Bocca della Verità for many years.
We will discover many local traditions, as well as some sayings that are still used today; formulas for good luck that the more daring can even try to invoke to tempt fate. Churches, arches and ancient temples await us to reveal their precious stories and timeless secrets.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza della Bocca della Verita, 18 Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome Italy
Located next to Santa Maria in Cosmedin Church, the Mouth of Truth is a famous marble mask said to bite the hand of those who lie.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Arco di Giano, Via del Velabro, 00186 Rome Italy
The Arch of Janus is the only quadrifrons triumphal arch preserved in Rome, in Italy.
It was set up at a crossroads at the northeastern limit of the Forum Boarium, close to the Velabrum, over the Cloaca Maxima drain that went from the Forum to the River Tiber. It was built in the early 4th century, using spolia, i.e. material from earlier buildings, including bricks, together with pottery shards, and was covered with white marble, also from earlier buildings.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: San Giorgio in Velabro, Via del Velabro 19, 00186 Rome Italy
San Giorgio in Velabro is a church in Rome, Italy, devoted to St. George.
The church is located next to the Arch of Janus in the rione of Ripa in the ancient Roman Velabrum. According to the founding legend of Rome, the church was built where Roman history began: it is here that the she-wolf found Romulus and Remus.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Arco degli Argentari, Via del Velabro 19, 00186 Rome Italy
The Arcus Argentariorum, is an ancient Roman arch that was partly incorporated in the seventh century into the western wall of the nearby church of San Giorgio al Velabro in Rome.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Area Sacra Sant’Omobono Roma, Vico Jugario / Via Petroselli, 00186 Rome Italy
The Sant’Omobono Area is an archaeological site in Rome next to the church of Sant’Omobono, at the junction of via L. Petroselli and il Vico Jugario at the foot of the Campidoglio. It was discovered in 1937 and contains much important evidence for archaic and republican Rome.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Basilica di San Nicola in Carcere, Via del Teatro Marcello 46, Rome Italy
San Nicola in Carcere is a titular church in Rome near the Forum Boarium in rione Sant’Angelo. It is one of the traditional stational churches of Lent.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Foro Boario, Via Luigi Petroselli Temple of Hercules Victor, 00186 Rome Italy
The Forum Boarium was the cattle forum venalium of ancient Rome. It was located on a level piece of land near the Tiber between the Capitoline, the Palatine and Aventine hills. As the site of the original docks of Rome (Portus Tiberinus), the Forum Boarium experienced intense commercial activity.
Duration: 20 minutes
