The Road to Rome: Pictures from the Via Francigena

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Via Francigena: Canterbury to Dover [168]
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Via Francigena: Lausanne to Saint Maurice [77]
Via Francigena: St Maurice to the Grand St Bernard Pass [108]
ViaFrancigena: the Grand St Bernard Pass to St Vincent [185]
Via Francigena: St Vincent to Pavia [264]
Via Francigena: Pavia to the Cisa Pass [278]
Via Francigena: The Cisa Pass to Lucca [258]
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Sentiero Francescano [21]
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Rome: Constantine and his Churches [239]
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- San Lorenzo fuori le Mura [28]
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- San Paolo fuori le Mura [10]
- Santa Croce in Gerusalemme [24]
Rome: Later 4th and early 5th Century Churches [87]
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Rome: 6th Century Churches [34]
Rome: 7th Century Churches [67]
Rome: 8th Century Churches [19]
Rome: Sigeric's Churches [22]
Rome: Walls and Gates [132]

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Rome: Constantine and his Churches / San Paolo fuori le Mura [10]

San Paolo fuori le Mura, the façade from the cloister
The exterior
The north portico, which incorporates 12 Hymettan marble columns from the original basilica
The cloister in front of the façade
The nave, looking towards the altar
The triumphal arch with the apse in the background
The triumphal arch
Before the sarcophagus of the Apostle
Vestiges of the apse of the original church, showing its orientation in the opposite direction from the present building
A cast of the inscription on the Apostle's sarcophagus

Constantine built a small memorial church on the site of the Apostle's tomb, apparently orientated in the opposite direction. A larger church was built about 375, and later enlarged to become one of the largest and most beautiful in Rome, only to be completely destroyed by fire in 1823. The present building follows the ground plan of its predecesor.