Chiesa

Address:Via Veneto, 27
Rome, Italy

(close to Piazza Barberini)

At the corner of the Via Veneto and the Piazza Barberini, the Santa Maria della Concezione Church is mostly known for the Crypt of the Cappuccini Monks

Santa Maria in Trastevere , as many of the older churches in Rome has a lapidary collection by the entrance: the mix of stone you see above is very typical. We can recognize on the far left the center of the front of a Roman strigil sarcophagus, bits of mostly Late Antique tombstones on either side of Pope Clement XI's framed commemorative plaque, part of a monumental ... [read more]

Address: Piazza S. Maria in Trastevere - 00100 Roma RM Italy

This small church was built around 440 AD to house a reliquary believed to contain the prison chains of Saint Peter. The chains are actually two sets (one from Rome’s Maritime Prison and the other from the time of Herod) with a splendid story behind them. Legend states that when the Jerusalem chains were brought to Rome to join those from the Maritime Prison, the two sets ... [read more]