Vicolo dell’Atleta and the Medieval Synagogue

Near the Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, is this small street, which owes its name to the finding in 1844 of the celebrated statue of Apoxyomenos, a roman copy of a work by Lisippo depicting anathlete cleaning himself, today at the Vatican Museums. At number 14 of the same street, it is also possible to see a medieval home (XIII-XIV), which has an inscription on a small column in the small loggia in hebrew, which allowed it to be identified as one of Rome's ancient synagogues.