The senses tell of the Catacombs of St. John

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Traces of Christianity in Syracuse

The houses and streets of modern Syracuse rise above an underground world, a dense network of tunnels carved directly into the stone: the catacombs, dating from 220 to 315 AD. The custom of burying the dead in underground places was already known to the Etruscans, Jews and Romans, but underground c...
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The catacombs of San Giovanni

Just outside the ancient walls of the city, near the Neapolis Archaeological Park, stands the Church of San Giovanni alle Catacombe in all its beauty. The evocative open-air church houses two treasures dug into the rock in its cellars: the [approfondimenti id="3344" testo_link="crypt of St. Marcian...
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The Church of San Giovanni alle Catacombe

Above the underground environment of the Catacombs stands the church of San Giovanni, considered the largest sacred monument built in the early Middle Ages together with the Byzantine basilicas in Ravenna. With its beautiful white stone rose window and elegant Gothic-Catalan portico, this place repr...
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Crypt of San Marciano

The crypt of San Marciano is located in a site that was, in the classical Greek period, first a stone quarry and later, in the late Hellenistic period, a potter's workshop. The current elements of the crypt can be traced back to the 9th century, but these are clearly an integral redefinition of a mu...
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