Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
Saint Cecilia is the beating heart of this basilica—Rome’s patron of music—and the church that honours her has served as a cardinal titular church since the 5th century. The story begins even earlier: a first church here was founded probably in the 3rd century, traditionally linked to Pope Urban I and Cecilia’s own house. That connection is why the site matters to Roman Christians—by late fifth century, it was known as the *Titulus Ceciliae*, and at the Synod of 499 of Pope Symmachus it’s explicitly mentioned. In 822, Pope Paschal I rebuilt the church and moved Cecilia’s relics from the Catacombs of St. Calixtus. Beneath the high altar, those revered relics are preserved—so this is one of those places where worship and history overlap in the most literal way. Later, baroque additions came through Ferdinando Fuga, and the interior is famed for Pietro Cavallini’s frescoes and an apse mosaic. …
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