Typology:
Monuments
Address
Address:
Via di Santa Prisca, 13
Zone:
Rione Ripa (Circo Massimo-Bocca Verità-Aventino) (Roma centro)
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Contacts
Telephone:
0039 06 39967700 (lun-ven 9.00-18.00; sab ore 9.00-14.00) - 06 39967450 (gruppi)
Web site:
www.coopculture.it/heritage.cfm?id=55
Opening times
The site is opened on 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month.
Didactic tours
Individuals
2nd and 4th Saturday of every month
- timetable: 10.00am
- languages: italian
- persons: max 20 (access limited to 7 people every thirty minutes)
- duration: 1 hour
- price: visit € 5.50
- reservation: required
Groups
2nd and 4th Saturday of every month
- timetable: 11AM and 12PM
- languages: english, italian, french, german, spanish
- persons: max 20 (access limited to 7 people at a time)
- duration: 1 hour
- price: visit € 130.00
- reservation: required
ACCOMPANIST
2nd and 4th Saturday of every month
- timetable: 11AM and 12PM
- persons: max 20 (access limited to 7 every thirty minutes)
- duration: 1 hour
- price: visit € 30.00
- reservation: required
Schools
GUIDED TOURS FOR SCHOOLS
2nd and 4th Saturday of every month
- timetable: 11AM and 12PM
- languages: english, italian, french, german, spanish
- persons: max 20 (access limited to 7 people at a time)
- duration: 1 hour
- price: visit € 130.00
- reservation: required
ACCOMPANIST
2nd and 4th Saturday of every month
- timetable: 11AM and 12PM
- persons: max 20 (access limited to 7 every thirty minutes)
- duration: 1 hour
- price: visit € 30.00
- reservation: required
Information
Group booking:
€30.00
Guided Visit:
€5.50
Single booking:
€1.50
Booking
» Obligatory
» Telephonic
Description
In 1934 the Augustinian Fathers accidentally discovered a Mithreum, a place of cult consecrated to the God Mithra, under the Church of Santa Prisca. The Mithreum was built using the walls of a house dating back to the first century A.D. and of a building of the second century with two naves on which the church was built later. There is a niche in the rear wall bearing an inscription in the vault that proves the Mithreum was already in use in the year 202 A.D.. The statue of the cult representing Mithra killing a bull and a Saturn lying down built with fragments of amphorae covered with stucco are placed in the niche. The Mithreum was destroyed violently around 400 A.D., probably by the Christians before the Church of Santa Prisca was built.
Connections: Bus 175 - 715 - 75 - 673Tram 3
Note: Accessible on appointment. Tel. 06.39967700.
Guided tours: Guided tours for single visitors the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month in Italian at 4pm, max 20 people. Cost € 4,00; length 1 hour. Visits for groups upon booking: time to be established. Languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German max 20 people, cost € 80,00 in Italian, € 100,00 other languages; length: 1 hour
See also
Culture and leisure › Historic places of worship › Catholic Churches
Last checked:
2013-04-19 11:34