Hake Gallery | Italy 2010 | The Basilica of Saint Clement
The Basilica of Saint Clement is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Pope Clement I located in Rome, Italy. Archaeologically speaking, the stucture is a three-tiered complex of buildings: (1) the present basilica built just before the year 1100 during the height of the Middle Ages; (2) beneath the present basilica is a 4th century basilica that had been converted out of the home of a Roman nobleman, part of which had in the 1st century briefly served as an early church, and the basement of which had in the 2nd century briefly served as a mithraeum; (3) the home of the Roman nobleman bad been built on the foundations of a republican era building that had been destroyed in the Great Fire of 64.
No Photos or Video was allowed to be taken inside.
No Photos or Video was allowed to be taken inside.
