San Clemente (church in Rome)

San Clemente (lat. Sancti Clementis) is a church in Rome in honours of Clemens I in the 2. Half of the 1. Jh. Bishop von Rom was, around him climbs the Clemenslegende.

The today's Basilika, a dreischiffiger building with Apsis, an atrium is pre-aged to which, developed around 1100-28. Carlo Stefano Fontana transformed the church 1715-19 baroque. The medieval pieces of equipment of the church are famous: the Schola Cantorum in the nave, the high altar and the Kathedra, furthermore mosaics and Fresken. San Clemente is also an important example of Kosmatenarbeiten.

Under the today's church still remainders of antique buildings and a still older church (3 have themselves. Jh., with Fresken from that 9. Jh.) receive.