Chiesa di San Cesareo de Appia

A church on the first mile of the Appia whose forms were defined at the start of the seventeenth century under Clement VIII Aldobrandini. The Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica describes a coffered wooden ceiling and a nave painting cycle ascribed to the Cavalier d'Arpino, Cosmatesque presbytery furnishings brought from San Giovanni in Laterano, extensive mosaic decoration, and a severe façade with sparse columns and pilasters and wide blind panels. Beneath the church is an imperial-age space of the second century AD, probably a bath building, found in the mid-1930s, with an extensive marine-motif mosaic floor. The Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica states that the site is currently visible from the street, and that restoration works under way will allow public access.