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Things to do in Rome, Lazio: The Best Churches & Cathedrals
Rome wasn't built in a day--and you'll need much more than a day to take in this timeless city. The city is a real-life collage of piazzas, open-air markets, and astonishing historic sites. Toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain, contemplate the Colosseum and the Pantheon, and sample a perfect espresso or gelato before spending an afternoon shopping at the Campo de’Fiori or Via Veneto. Enjoy some of the most memorable meals of your life here, too, from fresh pasta to succulent fried artichokes or a tender oxtail stew.
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1. Mausoleo di Santa Costanza
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4.5 based on 230 reviews
Originally built as a mausoleum in the fourth century for Costanza, son of Constantine, this church was transformed into a baptistery and then into a church towards the middle of the second century.
Reviewed By LouisA379 - Houston, United States
The mausoleum of St. Constance was built in the 4th century AD as the burial place for Constantina, the daughter of the Emperor Constantine, who died in 354 AD. The cylindrical mausoleum and its adjacent large funerary basilica (in ruins) are and excellent example of early Christian architecture initiated during the reign of the Emperor Constantine.
2. Sant Agnese fuori le Mura
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4.5 based on 107 reviews
This church has had a long history, from the first basilica that was dedicated to St. Agnes at the site of her grave by Constantia during Roman times, a new church built under Pope Honorius in the seventh century, and the most recent major renovation completed under Pope Blessed Pius IX (1846-1878.)
Reviewed By Windowseatview - London, United Kingdom
This site is a little out of the way but it is easily visited (and it's really worth the trip, doesn't take long), by getting off at Metro stop St. Agnese/Annibaliano on a branch of the B metro line) and a very short walk up the hill. The church is important because it's built on top of the excavated tomb of St Agnese. The church was originally accessed through the upper gallery as that was the original ground level, the lower (now ground), level was dug into the underground catacomb and around the tomb, this is the same unusual arrangement we see at St. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, over in Verano, where they did the same over the tomb of St.Lorenzo. The church is full of reused elements from classical temples, it's worth looking for the varied forms and materials used in the capitals and columns on the nave. The figure of the Saint in the apse is itself a reused classical statue with later bronze additions of the Saint's palm leaf and her symbol the Lamb. Adjacent to the church is the round mausoleum/church of St. Constanza, with its beautiful 4th Century mosaics (free access), and the entrance to the catacombs of St Agnese (small fee charged). On the day I visited, there were no other tourists so I had a private tour given by a very friendly and helpful guide. The catacombs lack the beauty of the paintings in the nearby St.Priscilla catacomb but are sometimes more affecting (a carved ham marking the grave of an illiterate butcher,) in its records of working-class life and death, many of the burial niches are unopened and the dead are sometimes still very much present and visible here. The tour culminates under the altar within the church at the site of the Saint's burial (alongside Saint Emerentiana another child martyr - both saints' heads are actually in other churches; Saint Agnese's can be seen in St. Agnese in Agone in Piazza Navona). The mosaics in the church are lovely and there are several interesting side chapels. An interesting place to visit if you've seen much of Rome or are a regular visitor, this site repays your curiosity with interest.
3. Santa Brigida
4. Chiesa Di San Saturnino
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3.0 based on 2 reviews
5. Chiesa di Santa Maria Goretti
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
6. Parrocchia Santa Emerenziana
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3.0 based on 2 reviews
7. Chiesa Di Sant'ambrogio Della Massima
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3.0 based on 1 reviews
