If something abounds in Rome, they are churches of different historical periods and among the oldest churches in Rome is the Basilica of Santa Constance. It's actually a mausoleum dedicated to the daughter of Emperor Constantine and it is one of the oldest examples of religious art and architecture in the Italian capital, an example of the passage from paganism to Christianity.
This ancient church in Rome is on Via Nomentana and was built in the 354th century AD Constantine's daughter had died in XNUMX AD and a few years later the same fate would befall his other daughter, Helena, eventually buried here as well. It was in the Middle Ages that the mausoleum took the form of a church and being the first canonized daughter, she was born to the Church of Santa Constanza.
The Basilica of Santa Constanza is built next to that of Santa Inés and although the outside of the building does not say much and is rather simple, the beauty is inside. Doors inside the shine and splendor of mosaics it has survived the test of time. The place seems to shine, after all it was the daughter of an emperor. Not all the mosaics have survived to this day, only those of the exedras and the barrel vault, but it is enough to imagine how beautiful all this must have been centuries ago, when the point was to differentiate the outside world from the celestial world.
Are the graves of Constantine's two daughters here? No, to see the sarcophagi you have to go to the Vatican because here they have only left a copy of the original red sarcophagus and the real ones are in the Vatican Museum. This church in Rome is on the Via Nomentana and Via di Sant'Agenese. The mausoleum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am to 12 pm and from 4 to 6 pm. On Sundays he does it in the afternoon only.