answer is yes, within reason. Snaking north to south through Rome is the Tiber River. West of the Forum and south of today’s Vatican (a first-century term too) was the port area of the Tiber called the Trastevere (trast-EH-ver-eh). House churches were located here in the first century. South and slightly east of the Forum, on a main road through the heart of first-century Rome called Via Appia, was another dwelling place for followers of Jesus. Between the two, in an area called the Aventine, where