01-22-2016, 10:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-22-2016, 10:57 PM by Nathan Ross.)
(01-22-2016, 09:28 PM)Alanus Wrote: I don't recall a fee to enter it.
It's €11 full price... Which, I'm ashamed to say, was enough to put me off going in the last time I was there, as I only had twenty minutes before I had to head for the airport... Sure it would have been worth it otherwise though.
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Another neat side trip, and also close to the Colosseum and Palatine, is the Case Romane del Celio, the remains of a fourth century Roman townhouse, converted from the ground floor of an insula apartment block. You get to it though a little door on the left side of the Clivo di Scauro (which is crossed by some photogenic Roman and medieval arches).
It's a warren of underground rooms, many with surviving wall paintings, much of it early Christian but with some interesting details of animals, boats and domestic scenes. One room features quite the most atrocious example of Roman interior decor I've ever seen. I think it's supposed to be marbling, but it looks like an extreme close-up of microbes in a petri dish...
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Nathan Ross
