Colosseum

Symbol of Rome and one of the most on -unknown monuments in the world, it is the largest amphitheater that has ever been built.
Also called Flavo amphitheater because it is confirmed by the Flavic dynasty. It was erected in 72 AD by the Vespasian emperor and inaugurated eight years later, in 80 AD, by Tito.

ROMAN FORUM AND PALATINE

One of the largest archaeological parks in the world. In the Roman Forum there are temples, basilicas, triumphal arches from over 200 years ago while on the Palatine there were the villas of the emperors.
The Palatine is also the place where, in 753 BC, Romulus traced the path on which he founded Rome.

Sistine Chapel

Built between approximately 1475 and 1481, at the time of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere, from whom it took its name, it is the place where the conclave and other official ceremonies of the Pope are held.
Inserted in the Vatican Museums itinerary, it is decorated with some of the most well-known and celebrated works of art in the world, including Michelangelo's famous frescoes of the Last Judgment on the back wall and The Stories of Genesis which cover the ceiling .

The Trevi Fountain

The most famous fountain in the world. The scenography is dominated by a rocky cliff that occupies the entire lower part of the palace, in the center of which we find a large niche delimited by columns where a large statue of Ocean stands, the god proceeds on a shell-shaped chariot pulled by two horses winged, one agitated and the other placid, in reference to the similar moments of the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy.
On the sides there are two other smaller niches occupied by the statues of Healthiness (to the left of Oceanus) and Abundance (to the right of Oceanus), the latter depicted holding the symbolic horn full of fruits and coins.

IMPERIAL FORUMS

They are the Forums built over the years by the Roman emperors. The first to be built was the Forum of Caesar, whose remains today are located close to the Roman Forum, at the foot of the Capitoline Hill.
On the other side of Via dei Fori Imperiali are the Forum of Trajan, with the gigantic Trajan"s column, the Forum of Augustus and a small part of the Forum of Vespasian

PANTHEON

The Pantheon is a temple dedicated to all the Olympian gods. It was rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian between 118 and 128 AD, after the fires of 80 AD. and 110 AD. they had damaged it.
On the facade the frieze bears Agrippa"s inscription in bronze letters: M AGRIPPA L F COS TERTIUM FECIT (Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, consul for the third time built). Agrippa"s third consulate dates back to 27 BC.

BASILICA OF SAINT PETER

It is the largest of the four papal basilicas in Rome. The construction of the current basilica began on 18 April 1506 under Pope Julius II and ended in 1626, during the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII but on the same site, before today"s basilica, there stood another one dating back to the 4th century, built by Emperor Constantine I on the area of Nero"s circus and an adjacent necropolis where, according to tradition, Saint Peter was buried after his crucifixion.

COLONNATE IN ST. PETER"S SQUARE

Commissioned by Pope Alexander VII in 1657 to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, it consists of 284 columns, equidistant from each other, and 88 pillars arranged in four rows and surmounted by a gabled roof, on top of which are placed 162 gigantic statues of saints.
Oval in shape with a maximum diameter of 240 metres, the colonnade was created as a metaphor for the embrace with which to surround those who were near the Basilica.
Furthermore, by positioning yourself on the two stone discs positioned in the paving of the square, four rows of columns are perfectly aligned.

FOUNTAIN OF THE RIVERS

Designed and built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between July 1648 and June 1651 on commission from Pope Innocent According to legend, the rivalry between Bernini and Borromini had repercussions in the construction of the fountain. In fact, it is said that the giant who symbolizes the Nile hides his eyes so as not to see the church of Sant"Agnese in Agone in front of him and built by Borromini, and that the statue of the Rio della Plata keeps his arm raised in fear of a possible collapse of the bell tower of the same church. But this could not be the case because the church in question was built by Borromini only starting from 1652, a year after the inauguration of the fountain

St. Angel Castle

The history of St. Angel Castle substantially coincides with that of Rome. It was born as a tomb for the emperor Hadrian (76-138) and his successors up to Caracalla (188-217). In 476, with the fall of the Roman Empire, the tomb was transformed into a fortress by Emperor Honorius who had it included within the Aurelian walls. From this moment on, Castel Sant"Angelo linked its fate to that of the popes who turned it into a residence in which to take refuge in times of danger and also used it as a prison, given its reputation for impregnability.
Numerous famous people were held here such as Beatrice Cenci, Benvenuto Cellini and Giordano Bruno.
Used as a political and military prison even after the unification of Italy, it became a museum in 1911 on the occasion of Mussolini"s Universal Exhibition.

TRINITÀ DEI MONTI STAIRCASE

Between 1585 and 1586 Pope Sixtus V commissioned Domenico Fontana to open a road that connected the Pincio with the basilica of S.Maria Maggiore, today divided into via Sistina, via delle Quattro Fontane, via Agostino Depretis, via Carlo Alberto, via Conte Green and via di S. Croce in Gerusalemme. At the end of the works, however, the road surface had become decidedly lower than the entrance to the church. To overcome the problem, the architect designed and built the staircase with two converging ramps that leads to the church: the pillars placed at the two ends of the staircase present the coat of arms of the Peretti family, the three mountains, and, above two beautiful capitals dating back to the 17th century, two herms with bas-reliefs depicting St. Louis, in honor of King Louis XII.

CIRCUS MAXIMUS

It is considered the largest performance structure of the ancient world at 600 m long by 140 m wide. Home to games since the beginning of Rome"s history, it has always been a hub for social gatherings.
It was here that the Rape of the Sabine Women took place, when, according to legend, Romulus, after founding Rome, made women from nearby populations with whom to procreate and populate the new city.

BASILICA S. MARIA MAGGIORE

Built by Pope Sixtus III between 432 and 440 after the Council of Ephesus (431), according to tradition, the construction took place on a previous church, built in the place miraculously suggested by Mary who appeared in a dream to Pope Liberius and the patrician John . When on the morning of 5 August 358 an unusual snowfall whitened the Esquiline, Pope Liberius traced the perimeter of the new basilica in the snow, which was then built thanks to the financing of the patrician John (a former slave, freed by Pope Liberius years earlier).
On August 5th of each year, in memory of the Madonna della Neve, the so-called "miracle of the snowfall" is re-enacted and, during an evocative celebration, a cascade of white petals is brought down from the ceiling.

CHURCH OF S.AGNESE IN AGONE

It is named after Saint Agnes, a girl who according to Catholic tradition was martyred at the age of twelve during the persecution of Christians under Diocletian in the stadium of Domitian, which was located exactly on the same place now occupied by the square and of which the square follows the shape.
The basement, created from an ancient medieval oratory, houses on the altar The Miracle of the Hair of Saint Agnes, a marble relief by Alessandro Algardi.

BORGHESE GALLERY

Located inside Villa Borghese, it is one of the most famous art galleries in the world.
Works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Antonio Canova, Caravaggio, Raphael, Perugino, Lorenzo Lotto, Antonello da Messina, Titian, Bellini and others are exhibited there.

VILLA D'ESTE

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it represents a masterpiece of the Italian garden with an impressive concentration of fountains, nymphaeums, caves, water features and hydraulic music.
Commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d"Este, historic governor of Tivoli and son of Lucrezia Borgia, it is the work of the ingenious architect Pirro Logorio.

HADRIAN'S VILLA

A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999, it was built between 118 and 138 AD. by the emperor Hadrian, in a green area rich in water near Tivoli, the ancient Tibur. The Villa extended over an area of at least one hundred and twenty hectares, including residential structures, spas, nymphaeums, pavilions and gardens.

CECILIA METELLA MAUSOLEUM

It rises just before the third mile of the Via Appia Antica, immediately after the complex consisting of the circus, the villa and the tomb of the son of Emperor Maxentius, Valerius Romulus. The construction of the mausoleum is dated to the second half of the 1st century BC. and was aimed at celebrating the importance of the Caetani family rather than the dedicatee.

CIRCUS OF MAXENTIUS

Built in brick around 311 by Emperor Maxentius in Rome, the circus was 520 m long, with a width at its widest point of 92 m. Being reserved for the imperial family and friends, it was only able to accommodate 10,000 spectators.
The spina (the structure that separated the two straights) was 283 m long and Maxentius decorated it with an obelisk from the temple of Isis in the Campus Martius. Today this obelisk is in Piazza Navona, placed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini on the Fountain of the Four Rivers in the 17th century.

MUNICIPAL ROSE GARDEN

The paths that divide the flowerbeds have the shape of the menorah, the seven-branched candelabra, a symbol of Judaism as thanks to the Jewish community who allowed the rose garden to be created in a place sacred to them.
In 1645, in fact, there was the Jewish Garden with the small cemetery attached until 1934 when the cemetery was moved to Verano.

ORANGE GARDEN

It stands on the Aventine Hill, in the area of ​​the ancient fortress built by the Savelli family towards the end of the 13th century near the church of Santa Sabina.
The trees that give it its name are in memory of San Domenico, who founded the convent right here in the 13th century and the orange tree near which the saint preached is preserved in the nearby cloister of Santa Sabina and is still visible through a hole in the wall of the church porch.

CHURCH OF ST. IGNAZIO DA LOYOLA

Together with the Church of Gesù, it is the main church of the Jesuit order established in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola. Built in 1626 based on a design by the mathematician Orazio Grassi, based on Carlo Maderno"s projects, it has a single nave with three chapels on each side interconnecting with each other.
The illusionistic painting on the grandiose vault of the nave is wonderful, as is the perspective simulation of the false dome by Andrea Pozzo.

CHURCH OF S. MARIA SOPRA MINERVA

Its name derives from a historical "misunderstanding", because it was built in the 7th century on what were believed to be the remains of the temple of Minerva Chalcidica (i.e. doorkeeper), built by Domitian in honor of his father Vespasian and his brother Titus. The remains of this temple have actually been traced to Piazza del Collegio Romano.
At the end of the 13th century the church passed under the Dominican order, which over the following centuries expanded and decorated it with an incredible collection of works of art, among the richest and most valuable that can be found in a church.

CHURCH OF S. MARIA DEGLI ANGELI

It is the church where the official ceremonies of the Italian Republic take place. The church has occupied the central hall of the ancient Baths of Diocletian since 1562, when Pope Pius IV commissioned Michelangelo to arrange it. On the floor you can see the sundial designed by Pope Clement XI who commissioned it for the Jubilee of 1700 with the aim of determining the date of Easter in the most coherent way possible with the motions of the Sun and the Moon.
The hole through which the light of the Sun falls on a variable and measured point of the approximately 45 meter long bronze line traced in the floor acts as a gnomon. The alternation of the seasons is represented by the figures of the zodiac signs inlaid in marble arranged along the line, which bears at one end the sign of Cancer, to represent the summer solstice, and at the other that of Capricorn for the summer solstice. winter.

BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA IN ARA COELI

The church was built on the ruins of the Temple of Juno Moneta, on the Compidoglio, while the rest of the ancient Roman buildings were falling into ruin. Buildings crowded together around the Aracoeli church which developed into a monastery in the upper part, while on the slopes of the hill a market was born and then a small neighbourhood.
The church, in addition to being a place of worship, was therefore always the center of the political life of Rome, so much so that popular assemblies of the free municipality led by Giorgio dei Pierleoni (1114) and then of Cola di Rienzo (1347) were held there.

TURTLE FOUNTAIN

One of the most beautiful fountains in Rome, it was built between 1581 and 1588 by Giacomo Della Porta, a few steps from the ancient Jewish ghetto.
According to legend, Duke Mattei, a lover of gambling, one day lost his entire family fortune and, thus, his future father-in-law refused to give him his daughter in marriage. In response, the duke had this magnificent fountain built in a single night and the following day he invited the betrothed and her father to the palace to show them the work, and exclaimed: "This is what a man is capable of creating in a few hours." penniless Mattei!”

TRITON FOUNTAIN

Created between 1642 and 1643, it is one of Gian Lorenzo Bernini"s masterpieces.
Commissioned by Pope Urban VIII Barberini, above all, to embellish the square onto which his palace overlooked, the fountain represents the marine God who rises imposingly from an open bivalve shell and supported by the intertwined tails of four open-mouthed dolphins.

PINCIO TERRACE

The Pincio is a hill in Rome, 61 meters high above sea level which, despite being within the Aurelian Walls, does not appear among the seven hills of Rome. On the top stands the oldest public garden in Rome, designed by Valadier between 1810 and 1818.
From its panoramic terrace it is possible to enjoy one of the most beautiful views of Rome, with the Dome of St. Peter in the background and the Piazza del Popolo below.

GIORDANO BRUNO STATUE

Made of bronze, it is located in Campo de" Fiori in the exact point where the philosopher was condemned to death at the stake on 17 February 1600.
It was inaugurated in 1889 after two international university committees, established in 1876 and 1884 with the membership of men of culture from all over Europe, raised the sum necessary for the construction of the monument. On the granite base there are eight bronze medallions with the portraits of some of the intellectuals who over the centuries have challenged ecclesiastical power and four panels, three of which with the most important episodes of Bruno"s life and the frontal one with the writing "To Bruno / the century divined by him / here / where the stake burned"

CAPITOL SQUARE

Bordered by the three palaces Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, Piazza del Campidoglio is a masterpiece created by Michelangelo on what is one of the most important hills in Rome, initially used as a place of worship and then as a center of power with the advent of the Senate during the Empire.

CHURCH OF S.ANDREA DELLA VALLE

The church stands above part of the ruins of the ancient Theater of Pompey, which through its porticoes occupied the entire area that extends from Largo Argentina to Campo dei Fiori. The name "della Valle" derives from the vast depression in the area which collected the waters coming down from the Quirinale and the Pincio and which formed a large pond.
However, the church takes its name from the nearby Palazzo Valle of Cardinal Andrea della Valle (name carved above the door).

BARCACCIA FOUNTAIN

It was built by Pietro Bernini (father of the more famous Gian Lorenzo), in 1629, commissioned by Pope Urban VIII. Its particular shape may have been inspired by the presence of a dry boat in the square, brought there by the flood of the Tiber in 1598.

ACQUA PAOLA FOUNTAIN

It was commissioned in the early 1600s by the newly elected Pope Paul V Borghese (from whom it takes its name) to supply the areas of the Borgo and Trastevere districts, which were poorly supplied with water at the time. It took on its current appearance with the renovation carried out at the end of the 17th century by Carlo Fontana.
The Romans of Trastevere coined the saying "You are worth as much as Paola water" to indicate something of little value because the Paola water itself, which came from Lake Bracciano, was considered of poor quality.

FOUNTAIN OF THE NAIADS

The fountain was initially inaugurated in 1901 but the provocativeness of the sculpted female figures aroused numerous controversies and the work remained hidden for a long time by a wooden fence. The central sculptural part initially included three tritons, a dolphin and an octopus, and was ironically renamed "fritto misto" by the Romans.
Moved to Piazza Vittorio in 1913, the sculpture was then replaced with the current Glaucus, a powerful man entwined with the dolphin, from whose mouth the central jet of water releases very high. The fountain was finally inaugurated in 1914.

BASILICA OF SAINTS COSMA AND DAMIAN

Inaugurated in 527 by Pope Felix, it was built at the behest of Theodoric, an Ostrogothic king, who had the rooms of a library of the Forum of Peace (from the Flavian era) united with those of the Temple of Romulus, built in the 20s of the 4th century AD by Maxentius. The continuous flooding of the Tiber made it necessary to raise the floor of the church, which is currently arranged on two floors.
The church is currently the mother seat of the Franciscan Friars of the 3rd order.

BASILICA S. MARIA IN TRASTEVERE

According to some scholars, S Maria in Trastevere is the first place of Christian worship in Rome of which there is historical information, as well as the first basilica in Rome dedicated to the Virgin. Founded in 221 AD. C. (3rd century) by S. Callisto and finished in 341 AD. C. by S. Giulio, the dedication to the Virgin occurred later.
Inside it preserves numerous works, including the magnificent wooden ceiling by Domenichino and the splendid mosaics by Pietro Cavallini with stories of the Virgin. The façade is preceded by an 18th century portico. in the upper part it preserves a mosaic from the 1200s, which overlooks the square of the same name and the fountain, built in the place where, according to tradition, in 38 BC. a prodigious jet of oil came out, prefiguring the advent of Christ.

MARCELLUS THEATER

Started by Julius Caesar and finished by Augustus, it occupied a part of the curved side of the "Circo Flaminio" and, even if the works were already finished in 17 BC. when the building was used for secular games, the dedication took place only in 13 BC, to Marcellus, son of Octavia, sister of Augustus, but also husband of his only daughter, Julia.
On the day of the inauguration, the popularly known accident occurred: while the actors were appearing on the stage, the "sella curulis", on which the emperor was sitting, broke, causing him to fall quite badly. Amid the anxiety of the senators and the people, Augustus stood up smiling and with a wave of his hand ordered the performance to resume.

Ostia Antica

Navona Underground - Stadium of Domitian

Trevi Underground

CHURCH OF S.ANDREA DELLE FRATTE

The church, already existing in the 11th century, was entirely rebuilt on behalf of the Marquis Del Bufalo at the beginning of the 17th century by Gaspare Guerra and completed by Francesco Borromini who, between 1653 and 1667, built the stupendous two-order bell tower and the dome reinforced by diagonal buttresses which make the architecture take on the image of the cross of St. Andrew.
The name of the church derives from its location, near Piazza di Spagna, once on the outskirts of the town centre, where trees and bushes were located.

CHURCH OF ST. MARY OF PEACE

In 1482 a church dedicated to Mary was built to remember a miraculous event whereby an image of the Virgin bled in this place. Sixtus IV was struck by the event and made the vow that if the Pazzi conspiracy, in which he was somehow involved, had not led to the war that was feared, he would have a large church dedicated to the Madonna built in this place. it preserves within it a rich repertoire of masterpieces of Renaissance art, including the famous "sibyls" frescoed by Raphael in 1514, the day after the unveiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo and probably influenced by it.

Aqueducts Park

One of the green lungs of Rome, a real crossroads of the water network of ancient Rome containing, in its about 240 hectares of land, 6 of the 11 aqueducts that supplied the ancient Rome: Anio Vetus, Marcia, Tepula, Iulia, Claudio, Anio Novus and the happy aqueduct, built in the Renaissance era and still used for irrigation.

Portico of Octavia

Borgo Pio

Via Dei Coronari

Originally it was called "via Recta" and, passing tangent to the "Stadio di Domiziano", connected the "via lata" (the old street of the course) with the Neronian bridge, collapsed at the end of the fourth century. In the Middle Ages it became "Via di Tor Sanguigna" ", for the proximity to this tower and then via dei Coronari by the sellers of sacred objects also called" paternostrari ", who stationed in this place because they were traveled by the pilgrims who went to S.Pietro .
500 meters long, it is one of the most beautiful roads in Rome with characteristic medieval alleys alternating with the many workshops of antique dealers full of furniture from each era.

St. Peter Little Temple in Montorio

Also called the Tempietto del Bramante, he was commissioned to the artist in 1502 by the royalty of Spain, to celebrate the place where the tradition wanted to have been crucified San Pietro, on the Gianicolo hill in Rome.

Ivo Church alla Sapienza

Borromini"s masterpiece, to which Pope Urban VIII entrusted the assignment in 1632. The works, however, begin only in 1643 and continued for over twenty years. The plant of the church is singular, consisting of two overlapping triangles, with the corners cut by curved lines alternating concave and convex and opposite frontally, and which, according to many, would be that the schematic re -proposal of the Barberine bee.
Summa of Borrominian virtuosity is undoubtedly the dome, with the famous snail, perhaps inspired by the Torre di Babel or the Lighthouse of Alexandria which in its spiral culminates in a flaming crown, on which a tiara rest, made of wrought iron, a globe, The Pamphili dove with the olive twig in the mouth and, lastly, a cross made during the Pontificate of Innocenzo X.

Underground of S.Cecilia in Trastevere

According to tradition, the ninth century basilica was built above the remains of the ancient Titulus Caecillae, which belonged to Santa Cecilia. The underlying archaeological area reveals a very interesting stratigraphy of remains of several constructions, from a domus of the republican age to an insula from the imperial era. In the basement there is also the place identified as the ancient balneum where according to tradition, the saint was martyred.

Broken bridge

It is located on the Tiber, a little further south of the Tiber island. Ponte Rotto is the name by which it is more commonly known, but it is actually the remains of the ancient Ponte Emilio (Pons Aemilius), probably made in 241 BC. by Manlio Emilio Lepido.
In ancient times in a wooden structure that communicated the two banks of the Tiber in an important point in the city, it was the first masonry bridge in Rome.

Sancta Sanctorum Chapel

The most revered sanctuary of Rome, according to historians of the Middle Ages, was the private oratory of the Popes up to the Renaissance.
Today is the wonderful chapel in front of which the pilgrim can pray, after reaching the last step of the Santa Santa

The Santa Scala

According to the Christian tradition, in 326 it was transported by Jerusalem to Rome at the behest of Da Sant’Elena, the mother"s imperator of Constantine. And the 28 steps that form the scale would be exactly the same as Jesus went up several times on the day of his death sentence in the Palace Pilate Palace.
It is customary to get on their knees, praying, the steps of the Holy Scala as an act of devotion to relive the passion of Christ and ensure plenary indulgence from one"s sins.

Basilica of S. John in Lateran

It is the cathedral of the diocese of Rome. First Christian basilica, built at the behest of the emperor Constantine who named it at the very Sancto Salvioris, in the aftermath of the famous Edict of Milan of 313.
It is called "Arcibasilica" because it is the first of the four major papal basilicas, and the oldest and most important basilica of Catholicism. More precisely, it has the honorary title of Omnium Urbis et Orbis Ecclesiarum Mater et caput, or mother and head of all churches in the city and worldwide.

Basilica of St. Clement

The Archaeological Complex of S. Clemente stands in the valley between Colle Oppio and Celio, on Via di S Giovanni in Laterano which was part of the roads used in the papal processions, which from the basilica of S Pietro in the Vatican reached that of S Giovanni in Laterano .
S Clemente is a four -level construction: at the bottom of the fourth level there are remains of the Republican and Augustan era, destroyed during the 64 AD Nero fire, more up on the third level we find the remains of imperial Rome, including a temple machine gun. Even higher, on the second level, the original Basilica of the 4th century, with important and almost unique frescoes of the IX and 11th century. Finally, on the first level, the current basilica reconstructed in the 12th following the destruction that took place during the sack of Rome of 28 May 1084, one of the most tragic days in the long history of Rome.

Water clock

Coppedè district

Fountain of the Artists

Temple of Aesculapius

Fountain of Asclepius

Ignatius' rooms

The rooms of Sant'Ignazio are located on the top floor of the residence built by Sant'Ignazio and Codacio between 1543 and 1544, next to the church of Gesù.
The rooms of Sant'Ignazio are preceded by a corridor with perspective decoration by Andrea Pozzo and frescoes by Borgognone.