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Street by Street: The Esquiline Hill

The sight that draws most people to this rather scruffy
part of Rome is the great basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
But it is also well worth searching out some of the smaller
churches on the Esquiline: Santa Pudenziana and Santa
Prassede with their celebrated mosaics, and San Pietro
in Vincoli, home to one of Michelangelo’s most famous P I A Z Z A D E L L ´
sculptures. To the south, in the Colle Oppio park, are E S Q U I L I N O
the scattered remains of the Baths of Trajan. V I A D E L L ´ E S Q U I L I N O

3 Santa Pudenziana
The apse of this V I A C A V O U R
ancient church
has a magnificent
4th-century mosaic
of Christ surrounded
by the Apostles.
Piazza dell’Esquilino was
furnished with an obelisk in
1587 by Pope Sixtus V. This
helped to guide pilgrims
coming from the north to
the important church of V I A D E L L ´ O L M ATA
2 . San Pietro Santa Maria Maggiore.
in Vincoli
The church’s V I A D E I Q U A T
treasures include
Michelangelo’s
Moses and the V I A S F O R Z A
chains that bound
St. Peter. T R O C A N T O N I

V I A G I O V A N N I L A N Z A
M A R T I N O A I M O N T I
P I A Z Z A S A N

To the V I A I N S E L C I
Colosseum

S A N P I E T R O
P I A Z Z A D I
I N V I N C O L I

The Baths of
Trajan (AD 109)
were the first to V I A L E D E L M O N T E O P P I O
be built on the The Torre
massive scale later dei Capocci, a
used in the Baths restored medieval tower,
of Diocletian and is one of the area’s most
of Caracalla. distinctive landmarks.

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