Underground Basilicas and Foro Boario Small-Group Walking Tour
Rome, Italy
Trip Type: Half-day Tours
Duration: 3 hours
Uncover the secret sights of Rome on this 3-hour walking tour inside the city’s underground passages. Explore the churches of San Crisogono and St. Cecilia in Trastevere and learn about the former cattle forum of Foro Boario. See the Temple of Hercules, along with the church of St. Crisogono, as you are accompanied by your guide and group of no more than 13.
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Uncover the secret sights of Rome on this 3-hour walking tour inside the city’s underground passages. Explore the churches of San Crisogono and St. Cecilia in Trastevere and learn about the former cattle forum of Foro Boario. See the Temple of Hercules, along with the church of St. Crisogono, as you are accompanied by your guide and group of no more than 13.Meet your guide by the Boario Forum, the cattle forum venalium of Ancient Rome. Learn the history of the 2 temples that gave the site great importance in the Roman Republic. Hear about the round Temple of Ercole (Temple of Hercules) and the Ionic-style Temple of Portunos.
Cross Palatino Bridge to see the Ponte Rotto (Broken Bridge), commissioned by Marco Emilio Lepido in 179 AC. Some traces indicate that the bridge was already partly built by 241 AC.
Continue to Tiber Island and the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. According to legend, the church was built on top of the home of St. Cecilia, a noble vergile of an important family of the Roman Republic. See the tomb of St. Cecilia and the geometric cosmatesque crypt. Walk down a characteristically small street of the Trastevere district to the church of St. Crisogono, dedicated to the martyr Saint Chrysogonus. See the 8th-century frescoes discovered in the excavations of an earlier church, thought to date back to the reign of Constantine I.
Cross Palatino Bridge to see the Ponte Rotto (Broken Bridge), commissioned by Marco Emilio Lepido in 179 AC. Some traces indicate that the bridge was already partly built by 241 AC.
Continue to Tiber Island and the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. According to legend, the church was built on top of the home of St. Cecilia, a noble vergile of an important family of the Roman Republic. See the tomb of St. Cecilia and the geometric cosmatesque crypt. Walk down a characteristically small street of the Trastevere district to the church of St. Crisogono, dedicated to the martyr Saint Chrysogonus. See the 8th-century frescoes discovered in the excavations of an earlier church, thought to date back to the reign of Constantine I.
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