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Piazza di San
Giovanni in
Laterano boasts an ESQUILINE
ancient obelisk, and LATERAN
parts of Nero’s
Aqueduct. This
18th-century
painting by
Canaletto shows CARACALLA Appio Latino
how the piazza
once looked. Locator Map
See Central Rome Map pp16–17

V I A D I S A N T O
The Lateran Palace,
S T E F A N O R O T O N D O
residence of the 1. San Giovanni
popes until 1309, was in Laterano
rebuilt by Domenico Borromini’s interior dates from
Fontana in 1586. the 17th century, but the
grand facade by Alessandro
Galilei, with its giant statues
of Christ, and the Apostles,
was added in 1735.

P I A Z Z A D I S A N

G I O V A N N I I N L A T E R A N O

2 Scala Santa
This door at the
V I A D . F O N T A N A
top of the Holy
Staircase leads to
the Sancta
Sanctorum.

P I A Z Z A D I P O R T A S A N G I O V A N N I

3 Porta Asinaria
The Triclinio This minor gateway, no
Leoniano is a piece longer in use, is as old
of wall, and a mosaic from as the Aurelian Wall,
the dining hall of the dating back to the
8th-century Pope Leo III. 3rd century AD.

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