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Mamertime Prison Entrance Ticket with Audio guide

Name: Mamertime Prison Entrance Ticket with Audio guide
Price range: $
Rating: 4.1

4.1 ·

Step into Rome's oldest prison, tucked beneath the busy streets near the Forum. With your audio guide, explore the underground cistern-turned-dungeon and learn of its dark past and Saint Peter's traditional imprisonment here.

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Reasons to go

The site began as an ancient cistern before being repurposed as a dungeon in Rome's earliest centuries.
Tradition holds that Saint Peter was imprisoned here, marked by a chapel built above the site.
It served as an execution site for enemies of ancient Rome.

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Full description

Little-visited compared to the Colosseum or Forum next door, this underground cistern-turned-dungeon dates back to Rome's earliest centuries and later became associated with the imprisonment of Saint Peter, a tradition marked by a small chapel built above it. The audio guide covers both the site's grim history as a place of execution for enemies of Rome and its later Christian significance.

With one of the highest hidden-gem scores among Rome's landmark tickets here, it rewards visitors willing to seek out a smaller, less-polished site alongside the headline ruins nearby.

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Address

Clivo Argentario, 1, 00186 Roma RM, Italy · Campitelli

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Booking

Booking required

Duration

45 min

Best time

morning, lunchtime, afternoon or early evening

Intensity

Moderate walking