Here we have photos of  the St John in Lateran Basilica, the official seat of the bishop of Rome (the Pope), photos about one of the most famous church in the world, a magnificent place that must be visited for its works of art and origins.

The first basilica built in Rome at the behest of Constantine, as the result of the alleged, false and famous Donation of Constantine. We are at the 323 AD when the St John in Lateran Basilica officially, became the first true christian church of Rome, even in order to mark a transition to the Eternal City, in terms of religious, social and cultural. But St John in Lateran, in spite of its history that crosses the centuries and its continuous reconstructions and embellishments, has also other, like for example the suffix "Lateran". What it really means?

We must go back in time, until the I century a.D. and the emperor Nero. It was not as evil as history has made us believe, on the contrary. At least for the first five years from the emperor Nero ruled with wisdom and justice in Rome, also thanks to his tutor and mentor, Seneca. Only later, plagued by family problems (such as the cumbersome presence of his mother Agrippina), and love problems of the (his first relationships with a maid and a matron, the famous Poppea), Nero began to behave like a megalomaniac, or hedonistic. And his behaviour and attitudes brought him, according to the legend, to burn Rome. Nero was famous for another reason: it was his use  to expropriate private citizens, especially the noble landowners, of all their goods. In particular the Laterani family owned, in the area where today stands the basilica, a villa and a series of land, all confiscated by Nero. This can be a first explanation for the origin of the term "Lateran", but there is more to know.

Nero was so strange, feeling sometimes as a God, that he wanted to try out all of human experience, even one of him precluded, as a man: giving birth. So what did he command to his doctors? To get him to swallow a tadpole, so that later he could grow up strong and healthy, becoming a beautiful frog that then Nero was "born", as the women do. According to the legend everything got welland Nero had his "son". To underline his happiness, and to share it with the Romans,  he decided to organize a great parade to show the whole city the frog. It was a pity that, once arrived near the Tiber river, the frog, placed on a golden coach, and escorted by 15 noble, not resisted temptation, he plunged into the Tiber and escapes. From here, the term Frog latitans, the fugitive frog...