The Catacombs Tour
Appian Tours in Rome
Rome
Italy
Wed, 8th October 2008 - Sun, 15th November 2009
Tour Departs from the Piazza del l'Esquilino Bus Terminal
During this tour you will visit the Via Merulana, St. John in Lateran, The Holy Stairs, Appian Way, The Catacombs and The tomb of Cecilia Metella.
Visit St. John's Church. In Lateran this means the 'Mother of all Churches' and was built undre the emperor Constantine, the first Christian Caesar, and renewed by Bor-romini in the XVII century. On the eastern side of the Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano, a building desing by the Domenico Fontana hosts the 'Holy Stair'. With the 28 steps ascended, by Christ in Pontius Plates' house during his trial and are supposed to be brought from Jerusalem by St. Helena, the Emperor Constantine's mother. You will also visit Appian Way, which was built in 312 b.c. Domine Quo Vadis Chapel, - Catacombs.
Many of the tombs from the 1st and 2nd century a.c. have no Christin connection. In the burial chambers there are fres-cos of both Classical and Christian scenes. In Rome there are 120 kilometres of catacombs, which you will visit. Cecilia Metell's tomb is one of the most famous along the Appian Way. Built for the noblewoman Cecilia, whose father and husband were rich and successful patrician generals of the late Republican Rome.
***ON SUNDAYS AND BANK HOLIDAYS VISIT OF ST. MARY THE MAJOR INSTEAD OF VIA APPIA.
Tour Departs from the Piazza del l'Esquilino Bus Terminal
During this tour you will visit the Via Merulana, St. John in Lateran, The Holy Stairs, Appian Way, The Catacombs and The tomb of Cecilia Metella.
Visit St. John's Church. In Lateran this means the 'Mother of all Churches' and was built undre the emperor Constantine, the first Christian Caesar, and renewed by Bor-romini in the XVII century. On the eastern side of the Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano, a building desing by the
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