The Mamertine Prison is easy to get to if you're visiting the Colosseum, as it's a 15-minute walk. You can also easily access it through the back exit of the Roman Forum. However, that doesn't ...

ROME — Hidden below the Church of St. Joseph of the Carpenters, among the ruins of ancient Rome, lies the city’s oldest maximum-security prison: the Mamertine prison.

Rome, August 30 - Three quarters of the roof collapsed in a central Roman church Thursday but no one was hurt because it was closed - but the famed underlying ancient Roman Mamertine Prison was ...

The Mamertine Prison (a.k.a. Carcere Mamertino or San Pietro in Carcare) is an ancient prison at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in Rome. It consists of two gloomy underground cells where Rome’s ...

Mamertine Prison, Located below the 16th century church of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami is a dark dungeon called Mamertine Prison (which was originally called Tullianum), which according to ...

Rome, August 30 - The most famed and infamous prison of ancient Rome was damaged Thursday when the roof of a central Roman church fell in. No one was hurt because the church was, as usual, closed ...

The roof of a church built on top of an ancient prison that is said to have held St. Peter before his crucifixion collapsed on Thursday in Rome. No injuries were reported.

"It was a place of detention but also a place of disappearance." An ancient Roman prison which boasts a couple of saints as former inmates reopened in the heart of the eternal city Wednesday after ...