Among the most beautiful decorative elements of our basilicas, without any doubts, we’ll find the frescoes of the Basilica of Santi Martiri. On the wall, on the right of the entrance, are painted five scenes of the Passion of Christ: the treachery of Judas, the ascent to the Calvary, the crucifixion of Jesus, the descent to the underworld, the devout women at the tomb.
On the left, we’ll find the scenes of disbelief of Tomaso, the settlement of Pietro on the pastoral office and more images of saints, such as Anastasia, Cosma, Damiano, Pantaleone, Caterina and Gennaro.
From the apse, you can access to the chapel of Saint Giacomo, which was built after the XII century on the remains of another mausoleum.
Dear visitor, I highly recommend you to visit this chapel because it perfectly describes the life of Christ and because there is a great variety of medieval paintings. Another amazing element is the Mosaic aedicule located in Saint Felice’s Basilica, built between 484 and 524 a.C.
The structure has a quadrangular plant and has, on each side, three arches supported by columns with bases and Bare capitals. Your attention will surely fall on mosaics that cover it for the beautiful effects created by matching golden and blue tiles.
Under the aedicule, there is Saint Felice’s tomb. Outside the basilica, right over the tomb, we can find the Basilica of Saint Giovanni that has been reduced in the VIII century a.C. because of a collapse. In the central basin of the apse there was a big mosaic, now lost, described by Saint Paolino in his writings, while on the floor we still find the remains of the ancient marbles.
The whole complex, however, deserves to be visited, not only because it’s beautiful, but also because being in it it’s like jumping back in time and reliving everything happened behind our backs.
The basilical complex of Cimitile currently includes seven buildings. The most important is the Basilica of Saint Felice, born after the deposition of Saint Felice. The grave was very simple and goes back to the III century a.C. When during the Empire it [...]
