Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Hours: 7,00am to 1,00pm; 3,30pm to 8,00pm
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It is traditionally believed that this basilica was created by Emperor Constantine's mother around 320 AD to hold the relics of the Holy Cross brought back from the Holy Land by St. Helena, Constantine’s mother.
The church was converted from a wing of the nearby imperial palace. Restored in 1144, when the Romanesque bell tower was added, and rebuilt in in 1743.
It contains two beautiful water stoops, a tomb by Iacopo Sansovino, a fresco by Antoniazzo Romano, a magnificent mosaic in the Chapel of St. Helena. In the Chapel of the Relics there are fragments from the Cross, a nail and two thorns from the Crown.
The church was converted from a wing of the nearby imperial palace. Restored in 1144, when the Romanesque bell tower was added, and rebuilt in in 1743.
It contains two beautiful water stoops, a tomb by Iacopo Sansovino, a fresco by Antoniazzo Romano, a magnificent mosaic in the Chapel of St. Helena. In the Chapel of the Relics there are fragments from the Cross, a nail and two thorns from the Crown.
