Catacombe di San Callisto

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  • Address
    Via Appia Antica 110, Appio-Latino
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    06 513 01 580
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    bus: Via Appia Antica

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These are the largest, most famous and busiest of Rome's catacombs. Founded at the end of the 2nd century and named after Pope Calixtus I, who was killed in Trastevere in 222, they became the official cemetery of the newly established Roman Church. In the 20km of tunnels explored to date, archaeologists have found the sepulchres of some 500,000 people and the tombs of seven popes who were martyred in the 3rd century.

The martyred patron saint of music, St Cecilia, was also buried here, although her body was later removed to the Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.