Rome

Semi-Private St. Clemente & Quattro Coronati Church Tour

from €42.00 EUR
Duration: 3 Hours
Organized by: Viator
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You are going to meet your guide at Piazza San Clemente and start the tour by visiting the Basilica of San Clemente.

You will have to pay your entrance fee but your tour guide will help you to skip the line to quickly start your tour.

Here, you will learn more about the famous 3-tiered basilica. This structure built over 3 times during the 1st, 4th, and 12th centuries.

You are also going to learn more about Cardinal Anastasius, the man who built the church during the 12th-century and beautiful interior ornamentation. You will witness arabesque motif Byzantine mosaics and enjoy the frescoed floor.

Your tour guide will take you one level below the ground to visit 4th-century basilica. Here, your guide will inform you about St. Clemente and St. Alexius. His lives were also depicted in frescoes available on this floor.

After that, you will visit the 1st-century building remainings. Here, you will visit the Mithraic schoolroom, which was a secret room and enjoy the atmosphere of volcanic stone corridors and rooms.

After you complete this tour, you will start the second part where you will visit Santi Quattro Coronati Church. You will learn more about the history of this church and how it was named. You can also witness the beautiful frescoes that date back to the 13th-century in Oratorio di San Silvestro and witness the Costantino legend.

Here, you can learn more about this character and how the building was used as a bastion.

Highlights

You will fully discover Basilica of San Clemente and Santi Quattro Coronati Churches during the tour,
Take your time to learn more about the 12th-century church, St. Alexius’ 4th-century frescoes and some of the most beautifully adorned churches,
Enjoy the walking tour beneath the Rome’s streets and explore old Republican era building to learn more about its link with Mithras’ cult.

Cancellation Policy

Free cancellation up to 1 day before tour starts.

Useful Info

Dedicated to the Pope who was third in succession after Saint Peter, it is one of the better preserved medieval Roman churches. Originally built in the V cent., and destroyed by the Normans in 1084 it was reconstructed in 1108 by Paschal II, on the mound of the previous edifice. (The original church had been built on ruins of the Imperial Period, and on an ancient Roman house of the Republican Period).

We enter the single aisled basilica from a side-door. The atrium, with its quadriportus is the only specimen of its kind in Rome (c. 1108). The aisles are separated by 16 Roman columns; the pavement is Cosmatesque. In the center is the beautiful Choir which had been in the lower Church. On the sides of the choir are the ambones, and a handsome Paschal candelabrum. The presbytery is separated from the choir by a screen of sculptured marble panels of the XII cent, (plutei and transenne). In the presbytery, which is above the crypt with the remains of Saint Clement, is the Tabernacle, supported by four noteworthy ancient columns of pavonazzetto. In the apse is the magnificent mosaic of the Triumph of the Cross, of the Roman school of the XII cent., radiant with colour, and harmonius in composition.

Here, the Crucifix, with 12 doves symbolizes the apostles above a multitude of persons. At the beginning of the left aisle, is the famous Chapel of Saint Catherine of Alexandria adorned with the graceful frescoes of Masolino da Panicale (1431 c), which portray: Scenes from the Lives of the Saint, and of Saint Ambrose; Crucifixion; Annunciation; Saint Christopher. From the Sacristy, we descend to the Lower Church.

Location

106 Via di San Giovanni in Laterano 41.889185972798,12.497500075988, Roma, Lazio 00184