Catacombe di Napoli: San Gaudioso

The catacombs of San Gaudioso are the second most important underground cemetery of Naples after the catacombs of San Gennaro. The catacombs were built below the Abbey (Badia) of the church of Santa Maria alla Sanità in the Early Christian era. They contain frescoes and mosaics dating from the 5th and 6th century to the 17th century and an important fresco by Ascentius portraying the apostle Peter dating to the 5th century AD.