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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:39:00

Often overlooked because of its modest exterior and unprepossessing entrance, the Basilica of Santa Prassede on the Esquiline Hill in Rome contains one of the most extraordinary cycles of Byzantine-style mosaics in the city. Built in its present form in the early ninth century by Pope Paschal I, it survives largely as he left it. Paschal commissioned the basilica around 822 AD as a replacement for an earlier church on the site, dedicating it to Saint Praxedes, an early Roman martyr believed to ...