Rome: guided tour of the three Patriarcal Basilicas

This tour will show you the three Basilicas that with St. Peter’s at the Vatican compose the four Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome. St. John’s in Lateran, first Basilica built under the Emperor Constantine, originally dedicated directly to Christ Safer, is the Cathedral of Rome and hosted the Residence of the Popes before this was moved into the Vatican.

Not far away we reach the most important church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Santa Maria Maggiore. Right on the Esquiline hill famous for its domes.
Continuing along the ancient city Aurelian walls on the Via Ostiense, we reach the Basilica of St. Paul outside the city walls, the largest one in Rome besides St. Peter’s in the Vatican.
It was built where Saint Paul was buried and it was majorly rebuilt in the 19th Century after a big fire.