We walked from the “Mouth of truth” back down the hill and to the church San Pietro in Vincoli it’s a minor basilica in Rome that houses St. Peter's chains and Michelangelo's famous Moses statue.

The basilica was first built in the middle of the 5th century to house the relic of the chains that bound Saint Peter while imprisoned in Jerusalem, given to Pope Leo I by Empress Eudoxia (wife of Emperor Valentinian III).

According to legend, when the pope held them next to the chains from of Peter's first imprisonment in the Mamertine Prison in Rome, the two chains miraculously fused together.

Moses is the centerpiece of the unfinished tomb of Julius II, who actually resides in St Peter's, the hugely impressive statue measures 7 feet and bares an uncanny resemblance to Charlton Heston.

The marble sculpture depicts Moses with horns on his head. This was the normal medieval Western depiction of Moses, based on the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") the Latin translation of Exodus. Horns were symbolic of authority in ancient Near Eastern culture, and the medieval depiction had the advantage of giving Moses a convenient attribute by which he could easily be recognized in crowded pictures.