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| The Boario Forum |
US$ 21 |
Duration: 2 hours;
Beginning of Tour: Line A “St. Peter’s”, Stop n.16 (Bocca della Verità)
End of Tour: Line A “St. Peter’s”, Stop n.16 (Bocca della Verità)
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| This tour will accompany you to an area connected profoundly with the origins of Rome. Here the connections of the first urban center with the rest of Italy crossed paths. Through here passed merchants with their merchandise, also thanks to the ford offered by the Tiberine Island and the port on the Tiber.This meeting place between people of various zones of Italy and of the Mediterranean remained such also in the Middle ages, with the settlement of communities of eastern monks, so much so that the area came to be called the “Greek Bank.” Our path with touch on the Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin, adorned by pavements and liturgical furnishings that are the work of the famous Roman medieval marble-workers, the Cosmati. In the
portico of this church can be found the Mouth of Truth, a large mask of Roman marble to which tradition attributes the power to reveal and punish liars. We will move closer toward the western slopes of the Palatino, where archeological testimonies of the first settlements in Rome have been found. We will then visit the Basilica of Saint George at the Velabro, dedicated by Pope Zacharius in the 8th century to a military saint and heavily venerated by the Bizantine troops stationed on the Palatino. We will see nearby the Arch of the Silversmiths and the Arch of
Giano, testimonies to the imperial age. We will return to the square of the Mouth of Truth to admire the two Roman temples of Portunus and of Hercules transformed in the Middle Ages into the Church of Saint Mary of Egypt and the Church of Saint Mary of the Sun.
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