Rome's most ancient Jewish catacombs will be open to visitors on the first Sunday of each month, for at least May and June, as part of a tourism and pilgrimage project linked to this year's Roman Catholic Jubilee year — 20 itineraries in Rome relating to sacred or spiritual themes, Le Vie del Giubileo, or Jubilee Cultural Routes.
The catacombs and other Jewish or Jewish-interest sites, including the former Jewish ghetto, the ruins of an ancient synagogue at Ostia Antica, and the Arch of Titus, which has a sculpted relief showing Roman soldiers bearing the Menorah looted from the Temple in Jerusalem, are included in an itinerary devoted to the presence in the city of religions other than Roman Catholicism.
