These catacombs of more than 15 km were discovered in 1593 and take their name from the granddaughter of Vespasiano.Ĭatacombs of Saint Agnes are located in Via Nomentana, 349. In its interior are conserved some frescoes of importance for the history of art as the first representations of the Virgin Mary.Ĭatacombs of Domitilla are located in Via delle Sette Chiese, 280. They have a network of 20 km of galleries and house the tombs of 16 pontiffs and dozens of Christian martyrs.Ĭatacombs of Priscilla are located in Via Salaria, 430. They are 12 km long and take the name of San Sebastiano a soldier who was martyred for having converted to Christianity.Ĭatacombs of San Calixto are in Via Appia Antica, 110/126. Currently only 5 of them are open to the public:Ĭatacombs of San Sebastiano are in Via Appia Antica, 136. In the city of Rome there are more than sixty catacombs composed of kilometers of underground tunnels in which thousands of tombs are found. The corpses were wrapped in a sheet and placed in these niches that later were closed with tombstones of marble or cooked clay where the name of the deceased was engraved with a Christian symbol. The Catacombs are made up of an infinity of underground tunnels that form authentic labyrinths of kilometers along which several rows of rectangular niches were excavated. Christians did not share the heathen tradition of incinerating bodies and to solve the problems of lack of space and the high cost of land, these enormous cemeteries were created underground. The word catacombs means "next to the quarry", comes from the fact that the first excavations made to be used as a burial site were carried out on the outskirts of Rome, next to the ground of a quarry. Here the pagan citizens, Jews and the first Christians of Rome were buried. The catacombs began to take place in the 2nd century and were not finished until the 5th century. The Catacombs of Rome are underground galleries used for centuries as cemeteries.
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