The catacomb are situated by the Via Appia, at the 15^th mile, where in Roman times there was a pozzolana quarry.

The former quarry began to be used as a Christian burial place towards the end of the third and beginning of the 4^th cent. A.D.

The fame of this catacomb had already become widespread in late antiquity, owing to the fact that the bodies of saints and martyrs were buried there, as is clearly recorded in the Martirology of St. Jerome.

TheAlbano catacomb is the largest and the most important of the ones outside Rome. In the central crypt there are some well-preserved wall-paintings, including the one representing  St. Senator, after whom the catacomb is named (late 4^th – early 5^th cent A.D.), the one showing Christ between the Albano martyrs and the sponsores (late 5^th – early 6^th cent. A.D.), and the one dating to mediaeval times (11^th – 12^th cent A.D.) with Christ Pantocrator between the Mother of God and St. Smaragdus, There is another interesting wall-painting in the apse of the smaller crypt.

The finds from the axcavations are on display in the Albano Museum.

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