Basilica San Clemente
Via Quattro Novembre, 94, Monti
NEIGHBORHOOD: Monti
Categories: Architecture, Landmark
Opening Hours:
- Mon–Sat: 9am–12:30pm, 3pm–6pm
- Sun: 12pm–6pm
Named after Pope St. Clement, the basilica is a layer cake of Roman history and architecture—a private home turned Christian church in the second century, which morphed into a Mithras temple in the third century, and its current incarnation as a Medieval temple after that. While it may not look like much on the outside, inside it’s done in breathtaking twelfth-century mosaics with multiple chapels and fascinating little nooks making up a sort of architectural treasure hunt.
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