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The necropolis was not originally one of the Catacombs of Rome, but an open-air cemetery with tombs and mausolea. The Vatican Necropolis is not to be confused with the Vatican Grottoes, the latter of which resulted from the construction of St. Peter's Church and is located on the ground level of the old Constantinian basilica.
Close to the Catacombs of San Callisto are the large and impressive Catacombs of Domitilla [14] (named after Saint Domitilla), spread over 17 kilometres (11 miles) of caves. In the beginning of 2009, [ 15 ] at the request of the Vatican, the Divine Word Missionaries , a Roman Catholic Society of priests and Brothers, assumed responsibility as ...
The Via Anapo catacombs are a set of catacombs on the via Salaria in Rome, first built in the 3rd-4th centuries and rich in wall paintings, inscriptions and sarcophagus fragments. They were discovered on 31 May 1578 when some workers digging for pozzolana witnessed a landslide, only for the complex to be lost in another landslide and ...
The basilica and Catacombs of Sant' Alessandro is a single-level catacomb, located in the Sant'Alessandro area of Municipio IV on the outskirts of Rome. [1] It was first built in the 7th century on the via Nomentana .
The Gallery of Maps [1] (Italian: Galleria delle carte geografiche) is a gallery located on the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican containing a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.
The Catacombs of Santa Felicita or Catacomb of Maximus is a three-level complex of catacombs on the modern via Salaria in the modern Salario quarter of Rome. [1] In the 17th century it was also known as the Catacomb of Sant'Antonio after the patron saint of the Vienne monastery which owned the land in which it fell.
The name ad catacumbas refers to the catacombs of St Sebastian, over which the church was built, while "fuori le mura" refers to the fact that the church is built outside the Aurelian Walls, and is used to differentiate the basilica from the church of San Sebastiano al Palatino on the Palatine Hill.
Ferrua A., La basilica e la catacomba di S. Sebastiano, Vatican City 1990; Guarducci M., Pietro e Paolo sulla via Appia e la tomba di Pietro in Vaticano, Vatican City 1983; Mancini G., Scavi sotto la basilica di S. Sebastiano sull'Appia, in Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Rome 1923, pp. 3–79