Catacombe di Priscilla

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  • Address
    Via Salaria 430, Trieste
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  • Phone
    06 862 06 272
  • Transport
    bus: Via Salaria

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These catacombs originally belonged to the patrician Acilii family in the 1st century AD. They were expanded in the 3rd and 4th centuries and became a high-society burial ground with appropriate upmarket decoration, quite a lot of which has survived. Several popes were buried in the catacombs between 309 and 555. A funerary chapel known as the Cappella Greca boasts good stucco decoration and some well-preserved late-3rd-century biblical frescoes.

A funerary chapel known as the Cappella Greca is thought to have been part of the criptoportico from the Acilii Villa. It retains good stucco decoration and some well-preserved late-3rd-century biblical frescoes.