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A private walking tour of Rome's real pilgrimage sites beyond the Vatican.
A private tour for your group only, to the genuine Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, San Giovanni in Laterano, and the real Scala Santa.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real pilgrimage sites include the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, San Giovanni in Laterano, and the genuine Scala Santa.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in Rome.
Genuine Christian pilgrimage sites.
A real, genuine sacred staircase.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, to the genuine Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, San Giovanni in Laterano, and the real Scala Santa. This is a private tour for your group only. Real pilgrimage sites include the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, San Giovanni in Laterano, and the genuine Scala Santa.
The Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem was consecrated around 325 AD inside a wing of the Sessorian Palace, the private imperial residence of Empress Helena, mother of Constantine. Helena had traveled to the Holy Land and returned with relics of the Passion, reportedly including fragments of the True Cross itself; the basilica's floor was originally covered with soil brought from Jerusalem, which is where its unusual name comes from — not that the building is in Jerusalem, but that a piece of Jerusalem was brought here.
San Giovanni in Laterano, built under Constantine and consecrated in 324 by Pope Sylvester I, is the oldest of Rome's four major basilicas and still holds the formal title of mother church of world Catholicism — the pope's actual cathedral, predating St. Peter's as the seat of the papacy. A severe earthquake in 896 destroyed much of the original structure; the Baroque building standing today was largely rebuilt from 1650 by the architect Borromini for Pope Innocent X.
The Scala Santa's 28 marble steps, now protected under walnut boards, are venerated by tradition as the very stairs of Pontius Pilate's praetorium in Jerusalem, climbed by Jesus during his trial and said to have been brought to Rome by Helena in 326. Pilgrims still ascend them on their knees. The sanctuary surrounding them today dates to 1589–90, built under Pope Sixtus V to a design by Flaminio Ponzio, and leads to the Sancta Sanctorum, once the popes' own private chapel.
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