Frommer's Rome day by day by Elizabeth Heath

Author:Elizabeth Heath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FrommerMedia
Published: 2017-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Visiting the Catacombs

Ancient Roman law forbade burials, regardless of religion, inside the city walls. On your guided visit (the only way to see the tunnels), you’ll descend through multiple levels of 1,900-year-old hand-dug corridors, past a mind-boggling number of tomb niches. (To protect them from looters, the bones have been removed.) Christian-themed inscriptions and frescoes, often endearingly simplistic but carrying strong messages of faith, are everywhere in the catacombs.

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