Project Description
The undergrounds of Rome
Tour highlights: the Capucin bone crypt and the church of San Clemente
Duration: 2hrs 30 mins
This visit will take us beneath the city. The Capucin Crypt is a cemetery, decorated with the same bones of the death corpses. The chandelier is made of kneecaps, the hourglass that recalls the ephemeral nature of life is made with the shoulder blades. Together with the friars. there is a little girl princess, dressed as an angel. An extraordinary journey in the baroque vision of death, the opposite of our present vision of that. From ‘them, we will pass to one of the most mysterious churches of Rome, San Clemente.
A monk thought that perhaps under the church of San Clemente there might be something hidden. Thus, he began to dig. He found a treasure. Today, it descends 17 meters underground. Under the current church, with its unique mosaic of the Twelfth Century and a chapel painted by Masolino, there is an early Christian church; further down, there is a Mithraeum, intended for worship of the cult that originated from Iran and had much in common with Christianity. Nearby, the ruins of a Roman building were found with a stream of water that ends at the Colosseum. By entering into the bowels of the earth you can go back two thousand years.