Hotel San Silvestro

We ventured off to an English mass at Basilica Di San Silvestro. This church is the national English (British) church. The church itself has an outside façade and then you walk through a courtyard to get into the church itself. All the churches are so ...

... ), past Presidenza Consiglio Ministry on the right (behind a huge iron door we could see into a lovely courtyard garden), then St.Silvestro in Capite (Church on right, St Silvestre piazza on right).  St. Silvestro was originally the English church in ...

... surprisingly interesting when viewed from a different position. We continued on, visiting one lovely square after another (S. Formosa, S. Silvestro, S. Polo, S. Toma, Campo dei Frairi), slowly winding our way back toward our hotel for lunch and a bit ...

... the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently-dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs.     The bodies were dehydrated on the racks of ceramic ...