Santa Sabina Review

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Santa Sabina

  • Address: Piazza Pietro d'Illiria 1, Via di Santa Sabina, Aventino, Rome | Map It
  • Phone: 06/5743573

Fodor's Review:

This early Christian basilica demonstrates the severe simplicity common to churches of its era. Later decorations have been peeled away, leaving the essential form as Rome's Christians knew it in the 5th century. Once the church was bright with mosaics and frescoes, now lost. The beautifully carved and preserved wooden doors are the oldest of their kind in existence; they, too, date from the 5th century.

  • Open: Daily 6:30-12:30 and 4-6, until 7 May-Sept
  • Metro: Circo Massimo
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