Rome: Chiesa di Santo Stefano Rotondo

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About the startling 16th-century frescoes in this round church, Charles Dickens wrote: 'Such a panorama of horror and butchery no man could imagine in his sleep, though he were to eat a whole pig, raw, for supper.'Circling the outer of two rings of antique granite and marble columns, they graphically depict the various ways in which martyrs were killed in early Christendom.

The church, not long re-opened after years of restoration, dates to the late 5th century. Subsequent alterations were made in the 12th and 15th centuries.

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Address
Via di Santo Stefano Rotondo 7
Campitelli
Tel: info: 06 704 93 717
Getting there: bus: Via della Navicella

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