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Rome: Catacombs of Priscilla Entry Ticket & Guided Tour
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Rome: Catacombs of Priscilla Entry Ticket & Guided Tour

By OPERA ROMANA PELLEGRINAGGI
Free cancellation available
Price is £12 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • Visit the catacombs of Priscilla on a guided tour
  • Explore the underground world waiting beneath the streets of Rome
  • Learn about ancient Rome and early Christianity

Activity location

    • Rome
    • Rome, Lazio, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Via Salaria, 430, 00199 Roma RM, Italy | Arrive 15 minutes before the activity starts.
    • Roma, Lazio, Italy

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Guided tour in English
  • Activity duration is 30 minutes30m30m
  • English

Guided tour in English

Language options: English
Price details
£11.73 x 1 Adult£11.73

Total
Price is £11.73
Guided tour in Italian
  • Activity duration is 30 minutes30m30m
  • Italian

Guided tour in Italian

Language options: Italian
Price details
£11.73 x 1 Adult£11.73

Total
Price is £11.73
Guided tour in Spanish
  • Activity duration is 30 minutes30m30m
  • Spanish

Guided tour in Spanish

Language options: Spanish
Price details
£11.73 x 1 Adult£11.73

Total
Price is £11.73

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance ticket to Catacombs of Priscilla
  • What's includedWhat's included Guided tour of the Catacombs of Priscilla
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel pick-up and drop-off
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Transport

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Baby buggies, Photography inside
  • Not suitable for: People with mobility impairments
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Located on Via Salaria, the catacomb is spread over two floors and probably takes its name from a Priscilla of the Acili senatorial family, whose name occurs in one of the inscriptions of the hypogeum of the Acili on the ground floor.

Its origin is different from that of the other catacombs as initially the place was an arenarium, then abandoned.

Christians began to use the large and irregular galleries that make up the ground floor of the catacomb towards the beginning of the third century, building around twenty niche tombs and digging hundreds of niches in the walls.

In an adjacent area there is the cryptoporticus with the Greek Chapel and a large underground environment, born as a noble family burial ground and then connected to the catacomb.

Among the martyrs buried in Priscilla we remember the brothers Felice and Filippo, who were martyred, probably under Diocletian, together with their mother St. Felicita and the other five brothers Alessandro, Marziale, Vitale, Silano and Gennaro.

Numerous popes were also buried in Priscilla: Marcellino (296-304), Marcello (308-309), Silvestro (314-335), Liberius (352-366), Siricius (384-399), Celestino (422-432) and Vigilius (537-555).

In the hypogeum of the Acili, originally a cistern of water, the inscriptions of the Acili have been found and exhibited. Inside Villa Ada there is the Basilica built by Pope St. Silvestro in correspondence with the tomb of Felice and Filippo. In an area near the basilica a Museum has been set up which collects hundreds of fragments of sarcophagi found during the excavations in the area of the catacomb.

Location

Activity location

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    • Rome
    • Rome, Lazio, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Via Salaria, 430, 00199 Roma RM, Italy | Arrive 15 minutes before the activity starts.
    • Roma, Lazio, Italy