Location Facts

Rome boasts some of the most accessible and extensive examples of Christian art, from the crude subterranean pictographs of the persecuted early believers, to Michelangelo's astounding frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, to Bernini's Baroque masterpieces, and beyond. As the center of early Christian life, Rome also offers some of the best-preserved architectural sites for making Church history come alive, thereby offering a unique chronology of the development of Christian art, architecture, and sacred space.

• The Roman Forum, the central area around which the ancient Roman civilization was developed, became a cattle field in the Middle Ages.
• The Capitoline Museum houses the colossal marble head of Emperor Constantine, the remnant of a sculpture that was originally 40 feet in height.
• Students will visit the Basilica of Saint Peter, which has been considered "the greatest of all churches of Christendom."
• Rome's Trevi Fountain, is where, legend has it, that a visitor throws a coin to ensure their return to Rome.