Constantina’s Mausoleum, Rome. Italy Audiobook (Free)

The audioguide tells the storyplot, explains architecture and reports interesting facts about the mausoleum of Santa Costanza, the child of the founder of Constantinopol, which is among the main examples of late-ancient architecture among Roman monuments.

This building was built and dedicated to the daughter of Constantine the Great, the Byzantine emperor who founded Constantinople.

Most researchers believe it dates back to the years 337-350, when Constantine lived in Rome. The cathedral we find about Constantina’s Mausoleum, Rome. Italy today (Sant’Agnese outside the walls) is not the original chapel of Sant’Agnese, but a reconstruction, through the seventh hundred years, when Pope Onorio I made a decision to erect a new construction on the ruins of the Basilica of Constantine.

At the bottom from the Mausoleum’s architecture a couple of exceptional Roman choices such as the Pantheon, but its structure is innovative with its concentric circular spaces, lent from the Roundabout of the Basilica from the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem, whose construction was ordered by Constantine himself and his mom Elena.

You are able to examine the 3D model of the chapel and observe its interior through the MuByz App. The audioguide has been made by experts in the field of history and art.