Rome Sights

Chiesa di Santo Stefano Rotondo

#240 of 963 things to do in Rome

#7141 of 49054 things to do in Europe

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  • Address
    • Via di Santo Stefano Rotondo 7
  • Transport
    • Via della Navicella
  • Phone
    • 06 42 11 99
  • Hours
    • 9.30am-12.30pm Tue-Sun & 3-6pm Tue-Sat,, admission by reservation

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Lonely Planet review for Chiesa di Santo Stefano Rotondo

‘Such a panorama of horror and butchery no man could imagine in his sleep, though he were to eat a whole pig, raw, for supper.’ So wrote Charles Dickens after seeing the 16th-century frescoes at this otherwise tranquil church. The X-rated images graphically depict the various ways in which martyrs were killed in early Christendom. The church, one of Rome’s oldest, dates to the late 5th century, although it was subsequently altered in the 12th and 15th centuries.

 

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