🔸This summer stay cool by going underground Rome😉
🔸We are in the heart of Trastevere and this is what you’ll find underground the basilica of San Crisogono
🔸As you enter, you’ll walk through the “modern” version of this church, which was built in the 1100s (and then renovated in the following centuries)
🔸You can instantly recognize the features of a medieval church: the Cosmati floor, the wooden ceiling, the columns on the sides which are different from each other..
🔸As always when in Rome, never stop to the surface level! Because if you walk to the lateral nave you’ll find a small door saying “sagrestia”
🔸You walk in, and with a €3 offer to the deacon you’ll get access to the the underground world of Trastevere..
🔸What you’ll find downstairs is the original version of the San Crisogono church built in the 5th century! 🤯
🔸Why was a new version of the church built on top of it? 🤔
🔸Because the previous basilica suffered the flooding of the Tiber river (not too far from here). So around the 1100s it was decided to build a new and elevated church on top of it. Which is the one that we see today on our modern street level 😊
Have you ever been to San Crisogono? If not, is this going into your bucket list?? Answer in the comments!! 😉👇
