Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem in Rome

You're standing at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. It's one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. A strange name for a church in Rome, but there's a good story behind it. Empress Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, lived here in a palace. According to tradition, she found the cross of Christ in Jerusalem. A church for the relics was made inside her palace, and soil from Jerusalem was said to be spread across its floor. So in a sense, this church really stood on a little piece of Jerusalem.