CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, History And Exterior

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  • Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
  • Language: English / USA

Hi, I'm Ed, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.

Today I'll accompany you through the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, which is one of the most majestic places in Rome!

The church before you is the most important of the many Romanesque churches dedicated to the Madonna, as its name suggests, and it rises up like an isolated architectural block on top of Esquiline Hill. It was founded over 1500 years ago and has been overhauled several times over the centuries; however, it is the only one of the four great patriarchal basilicas (the others are Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint John) that has preserved its interior early-Christian structure: when you enter, it's like traveling back in time!

It is one of the churches that's most visited by pilgrims during the Jubilees, and if you are a faithful Catholic, inside you can worship the relics of the wooden cradle where Jesus Christ was placed in Bethlehem....

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