Tour description

With this 2-hours walking tour in the area around the Colosseum, you will learn about its use in Middle Ages. Your guide will tell about decay and reuse of Colosseum in the "dark age", when hosted workshops, stables, warehouses and fortress. Different legends depicted the Colosseum as location for black magic, till it was rehabilitated as a place of worship by the Church, with the Via Crucis.The tour will continue to the Basilica of Saint Clement, with its three-tiered complex of buildings: from the foundations of Republic era villa, to the present Basilica built in the height of Middle Ages. In between, around 200a.D. was a sanctuary of the cult of Mithras, Iranian god, testimony of Eastern religions competitors of early Christianity. The tour will end visiting the Basilica of Saint Quatto Coronati, an oasis of silence behind the Colosseum, hosting a beautiful cosmatesque cloister and S. Silvester chapel, with frescoes that narrate the legend of the conversion of Constantine

ItineraryThis is a typical itinerary for this productStop At: Rome Tours with local Guide Marta - Vatican, Colosseum, Trastevere & More Guided Tourstour operatorDuration: 2 hoursStop At: Arco di Costantino, Rome, LazioThis monument was erected to celebrate the victory of Constantine over Maxentius, and he declared Christianity public worship. This arch is one of major examples of monuments built with intensive use of spolia, by reusing reliefs from 2nd century imperial monuments.Duration: 20 minutesStop At: Colosseum, Rome, LazioListen to the history of Colosseum in Middle Ages: its decline and new functionDuration: 20 minutesStop At: Ludus Magnus, Rome, LazioThe gym where gladiators used to train for the fights Duration: 10 minutesStop At: Basilica of San Clemente, Rome, LazioThree different churches one on top of the other, dated back to three different erasDuration: 20 minutesStop At: Ss. Quattro Coronati, Rome, LazioListen to the legend about the "Donation of Constantine": was a decree used by the Emperor, supposedly to transfer authority over Rome to the PopeDuration: 20 minutes