The Via Ostiense Museum is an example of a container that becomes contained. Built inside the Porta San Paolo, it preserves the stratifications of time and the transformations undergone over the centuries. An ancient history that goes from the Roman era to get to the war events of the Second World War. Adjacent to the Pyramid of Caius Cestius is a symbolic place in the history of Rome, nestled in one of the best preserved parts of the Aurelian walls. The current name was given to this gate in the Middle Ages, by virtue of its proximity to the Basilica of San Paolo, reachable through a devotional route along the Via Ostiense, which began its journey from here to the sea.
Today Porta San Paolo houses inside a museum that conserves materials from the territory between Rome and Ostia. Three arcosoli, paintings from a III century AD tomb, should be mentioned. C. found at the Basilica of San Paolo, numerous casts of inscriptions and funerary memorial stones. In the eastern tower there are remains of frescoes dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, decorations of a chapel of the Byzantine community.
Ostiense Museum
Address: Via Raffaele Persichetti, 3, 00153
Phone: 06 574 3193
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