Located on top of the Aventine, St. Sabina’s basilica is one of the most extraordinary worship places in Rome. Built in the first half of the 5th century reusing columns and marble fragments from ancient pagan buildings, it shows at the entrance a wooden door decorated with relieves and there’s one of the most ancient crucifixion scenes known until today. The interior displays how the ancient churches were looking like inside, thanks to the schola cantorum rebuilt next to the presbytery.
Since the 13th century Saint Sabina is the general headquarter of the Dominican order and the tradition says that St. Dominique himself planted the orange tree that stands in the cloister until today.
