Rome

This is the main place in Rome for admiring the works of the so-called Nazarene painters, ...

Contrary to popular belief, Rome still hides numerous remnants of its medieval period. ...

Erected in 315 by the Senate and the People to celebrate the decennial of the Emperor ...

The area, at the center of the Campus Martius, was uncovered thanks to the demolition ...

Inaugurated in 2002, it is the large multifunctional cultural center designed byRenzo ...

Named for the pope who had it built, but today, often referred to by the name of ...

The baldachin is placed in correspondence with the underground tomb of Saint Peter ...

Inside the papal University, the two architects created a library and restructured ...

One of the most famous piazzas in the city, also because of the presence of its famous ...

Built by Sixtus IV della Rovere in 1480, as a country home and hunting lodge near ...

Built between 1483 and 1486, under Sixtus IV, by orders of the cardinal-nephew Giuliano ...

These are the most extensive catacombs in Rome. They cover three levels stretching ...

They owe their name to Archdeacon Callisto, who at the start of the Third Century ...

A wonderful garden for rest after a pilgrimage.

Built during the Ventennio (the anniversary of fascism in Italy), between 1936 and ...

The most important monument in absentia in Rome: nothing remains but the space of ...

Built between 1933 and 1935 in an area destined for this purpose in 1925. It is considered ...

The first great amphitheatre of the city, called for by Vespasian and completed by ...

This was the great palazzo-villa of Emperor Nero, which he built after the fire of ...

The famous statue in the piazza in front of the church, created by Bernini and his ...

It's name comes from the Esposizione Universale di Roma (the World's Fair of Rome) ...

It was restored in the Baroque style by Pietro da Cortona, who was hired by Pope ...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1651. The most famed fountain of the great baroque sculptor, ...

The urban setting of this fountain, which is the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, consists ...

This fountain, erected in 1574 following the plans of Giacomo della Porta during ...

Here is the final display of the Acqua Felice, the terminal monument of the acqueduct ...

Erected under Paolo V at the start of the 1600s, as the embellished terminal of the ...

Commissioned in 1732 by Clement XII to Nicola Salvi, work continued under Benedetto ...

It gets it name from the livestock market held here in antiquity, when this swampy ...

Built in the valley of Monte Mario, it was designed between 1928 and 1936 during ...

This was next to the area dedicated to the livestock market (Foro Boario), and it ...

Starting in 1920 the Roman Institute for Popular Housing entrusted the architects ...

On the Aventine, at the end of Via Santa Sabina there is a cul-de-sac on the right ...

Connected to solid ground by the  Cestio and Fabricio bridges, it is Rome's ...

Reopened to the public in 2002, they make up an incredible archeological complex, ...

A funeral monument with a circular layout (87 meters in diameter and 44 meters high) ...

It gives its name to one of the neighborhoods of Rome and it is, in fact, a hill ...

Home of the altar that the Roman Senate approved in 13 B.C., completed in 9 B.C., ...

Also known as the Oratory of the Banner and best known as the church of Saints Peter ...

Built by Pier Luigi Nervi and Marcello Piacentini for the Rome Olympics of 1960, ...

The building is tied to the saga of the Barberini family, from which came Pope Urban ...

Built in 1451, as the inscription of the main entrance states, under Cardinal Domenico ...

Built during the twentieth anniversary of fascism as a reception hall, it was designed ...

Erected around 1480 for Cardinal Domenico della Rovere, probably by Baccio Pontelli, ...

Once the villa of Cardinal Oliviero Carafa and then Ippolito d’Este, it was ...

Built between 1485 and 1513, perhaps by Leon Battista Alberti, it was commissioned ...

It was built from 1877 to 1883 by Pio Piacentini, who created a neoclassic building, ...

It is the most famous palazzo of the Renaissance in Rome. Started in 1517 for Cardinal ...

This is the ancient papal seat, in which all the Bishops of Rome lived from the Fourth ...

One of the roman masterpieces of Baldassarre Peruzzi, built in 1532, renovating the ...

Located in Piazza Trinità dei Monti, at the intersection between Via Sistina ...

This is the biggest piazza along Via del Corso. It gets its name from the  column ...

Built on the remnants of the  Tabularium and since the Middle Ages, the home ...

The last great urban planning project carried out during the papal era, built by ...

Known since the Middle Ages as “Monte Cavallo” because of the statues ...

The building which dominates the piazza, built under Cardinal Niccolò Gaddi ...

The most famous piazza in the world, once known as the Platea Trinitatis because ...

From the shadows of the ancient, winding streets of the historic center you suddenly ...

The most important piazza of the Christian world. A vast part of its architectural ...

One of the hills of Rome, mostly occupied by Villa Borghese. The scenic rise from ...

The funeral monument of Caius Cestius Epulonis, built with Carrara marble, a testimony ...

This is the ancient Aelius Bridge built under Hadrian to connect his mausoleum with ...

The biggest gate in the Aurelian Wall. Also known as Porta Appia, because it opens ...

One of the gates of the Aurelian Wall, whose arches, belonging to the Acqueduct of ...

One of the gates of the Aurelian Wall, famous for its breach by the bersaglieri (soldiers) ...

The large structure was built by Quinto Cecilio Metello (146 B.C.), rebuilt by Augustuso ...

This is a tiny area in the larger neighborhood of Trieste, which gets its name from ...

It gets its name from the area that in the Thirteeth Century was occupied by the ...

Excavations of ancient Ostia began under Pius VII in the 1800s and were picked up ...

Known by the name Tempio Maggiore, it is one of the biggest synagogues of Europe ...

Built for Domenico Costanzi by Achille Sfondrini (1878-80), it was heavily modified ...

Called for by Julius Caesar and dedicated by Augustus (13 or 11 B.C.) in memory of ...

One of the most imposing structures of ancient Rome, called for by the roman Emperor ...

Immediately following the complex of Maxentius, made up of a circus, villa and the ...

It is the largest residential tower from the Middle Ages to have survived in the ...

Connecting Piazza Venezia to Piazza del Popolo and running about 1.6 km., it is the ...

Built in the sixth century, it gets its name from Saint Theodore and was probably ...

One of the most famous streets in the city, it gets its name from Pope Julius II ...

Near the Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, is this small street, which owes ...

It is one of the biggest parks in the city and originated with the family of Paul ...

The park, with which the entire adjoining neighborhood is identified, gets its name ...

It is the biggest park in the city and like many others, has its origins as a country ...

This splendid villa was built for Cardinal Giovanni Ricci who had it created by transforming ...

Once an agricultural holding of the Pamphilj and the Colonna, it was purchased in ...

This is the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, built by Giuseppe Sacconi starting ...