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Federica
your tour guide in Rome |
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City guide |
Appian
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Jesus and asked, ‘where are you going my lord?’
‘To be crucified the second time’ was the reply. So Peter
ashamed by his fear returned back to Rometo face his own crucifixion.
The first Catacombs on the way are also very much visited, S. Callisto,
for the Crypt of Popes burial place of pontiffs. |
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decorated by frescoes and decorations, but the first to be built were the Catacombs of St. Sebastiano. These kinds of tombs exist in few other places of Mediterranean but it is quite unique that there are so many in Rome and reason is the particular stone ‘tufa’ that can be easily excavated. A word about the Catacombs: it is not true that these were places of refuge from persecution, but simply unique burial grounds. |
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