The Basilica of Saint Clement is a church on San Giovanni i Laterano street, about equidistant from the Colosseum and the Lateran Cathedral. It is a unique archaeological complex that includes the upper level (a modern basilica built in the 12th century), the middle level (an early Christian basilica built in the 4th century) and the lower level (two buildings that arose in the 1st century AD). The modern basilica contains mosaics of the 12th century filled with early Christian symbols, frescoes of the 15th and 18th centuries. In the early Christian basilica, unique frescoes of the 9th century have been preserved, containing, among other things, the first known inscriptions in common Italian. The relics of St. Clement, the fourth bishop of Rome and one of the apostolic men, Ignatius the God-bearer, and a few surviving particles of the relics of Cyril Equal-to-the-Apostles, the Slavic enlightener, rest in the basilica.
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