Historic Sights in Rome, Italy

The Colosseum is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and sand, it is the largest ...

The Arch of Constantine is situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected by the Roman Senate to commem ...

The Basilica of St. Mary of the Altar of Heaven (Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara coeli al Campidoglio) is a titular basilica l ...

The Altare della Patria, also known as the National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, is a monument built in honor of Victor E ...

Santi Luca e Martina church is now a masterpiece of the Roman Baroque style but its origins date back to the 7th century, whe ...

The Pantheon (meaning 'temple of every god') is a former Roman temple, now a church, on the site of an earlier temple commiss ...

The Curia Julia is the third named curia, or senate house, in the ancient city of Rome. It was built in 44 BC, when Julius ...

The Trevi Fountain is the largest Baroque fountain in Rome and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain ha ...

The Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) are a single museum containing a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza d ...

The white marble Arch of Septimius Severus at the northwest end of the Roman Forum is a triumphal arch dedicated in AD 203 to ...

Piazza Navona was built on the site of the 1th-century Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the sta ...

The Forum of Caesar (Foro di Cesare) was built by Julius Caesar near the Forum Romanum in Rome in 46 BC. Caesar decided to co ...

Trajan"s Column is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan"s victory in the Dacia ...

The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum) is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient governmen ...

Castel Sant'Angelo is a towering cylindrical castle, initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for h ...

San Marco is a minor basilica in Rome dedicated to St. Mark the Evangelist. It was first built in 336 by Pope Mark, whose re ...

The Spanish Steps (Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Pia ...

The Flaminio Obelisk is one of the thirteen ancient obelisks in Rome. It is located in the Flaminio quarter on Piazza del Pop ...

Located at the foot of the Palatine Hill, Santa Maria Antiqua is the oldest and most significant Christian monument in the Ro ...

Trajan"s Forum was the last of the Imperial fora to be constructed in ancient Rome. It was built on the order of the emp ...

Santa Francesca Romana church was built in the second half of the 10th century, incorporating an 8th-century oratory that Pop ...

The Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica di Massenzio) is the largest ancient building in the Roman Forum. Constr ...

Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica is a museum in Rome, featuring a collection of works acquired by the collector Giovanni Bar ...

The Arch of Titus was constructed in c. 82 AD by the Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus to ...

The Forum of Augustus is one of the Imperial forums of Rome, Italy, built by Augustus. It was built in 42 BC to commemorate ...

The Ludus Magnus is the largest of the gladiatorial arenas in Rome. It was built by the emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) in the va ...

The Jewish Museum of Rome is situated in the basement of the Great Synagogue of Rome and offers both information on the Jewis ...

San Lorenzo in Damaso is a parish and titular church in central Rome. It is incorporated into the papal Palazzo della Cancell ...

The Torre dei Conti was one of the most impressive towers that dominated medieval Rome. It was built in 1238 by Richard Conti ...

The Lateran Obelisk is the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, and it is also the tallest obelisk in Ital ...

The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore is a Papal major basilica and the largest Catholic Marian church in Rome. It is one of ...

The Galleria Spada is a museum in Rome, which is housed in the Palazzo Spada of the same name. The palazzo is also famous for ...

The Palatine Hill is the centremost of the Seven Hills of Rome and is one of the most ancient parts of the city. It stands 40 ...

The Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island (Italian: Basilica di San Bartolomeo all"Isola) is a titular minor basi ...

The Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere is one of the oldest churches of Rome. The basic floor plan and wall structure of ...

The Ara Pacis Augustae ('Altar of Augustan Peace') is an altar in Rome dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of Peace ...

The Lateran Palace is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later the main papal residence in southeast Rome. Located on ...

the basilica of Saint John Lateran was built under pope Melchiade (311-314). It is the oldest surviving church in the world. ...

The Theatre of Marcellus is an ancient open-air theatre, built in 13 BC and formally inaugurated in 12 BC by Augustus. At the ...

The Mausoleum of Augustus is a large tomb built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC. The interior of the mausoleum is not ...

The Galleria Nazionale d"Arte Antica (GNAA), or National Gallery of Ancient Art, is the main national collection of olde ...

The National Roman Museum is a museum with several branches in separate buildings throughout the city of Rome. Palazzo Massi ...

San Teodoro is a 6th-century church in Rome. It was dedicated to Theodore of Amasea and given to the Orthodox community of Ro ...

The Temple of Portunus or Temple of Fortuna Virilis ('manly fortune') is one of the best preserved of all Roman temples. Its ...

Largo di Torre Argentina is a square that hosts four Republican Roman temples, and the remains of Pompey"s Theatre. The ...

The Temple of Hercules Victor is a monopteros, a round temple of Greek "peripteral" design completely encircled by ...

Palazzo Farnese is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome. Owned by the Italian Republic, it was given to ...

San Marcello al Corso was built before 418, when Pope Boniface I was elected there. Pope Adrian I, in the 8th century, bui ...

The Quirinal Palace is one of the three current official residences of the President of the Italian Republic. It is located o ...

The Galleria Borghese is an art gallery housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building is ...

The Circus Maximus was a chariot racetrack in Rome first constructed in the 6th century BCE. The Circus was also used for oth ...

The Church of Saint Susanna at the Baths of Diocletian is located on the Quirinal Hill in Rome. There has been a titular chu ...

The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid in Rome. Due to its incorporation into the city's fortifications, it is today on ...

The Palazzo Colonna is a palatial block of buildings built in part over ruins of an old Roman Serapeum, and has belonged to t ...

The Basilica of Saint Sabina is a titular minor basilica and mother church of the Dominicans. Santa Sabina is the oldest exta ...

The Papal Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls (Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura), is one of Rome's four ancient ...

Sant"Anastasia curch was built between the late 3rd and early 4th century, possibly by a Roman woman named Anastasia. Th ...

The Baths of Caracalla were the second largest Roman public baths, or thermae, in Rome. It was built between AD 212 and 217, ...

San Crisogono in Trastevere is dedicated to the martyr Saint Chrysogonus. It was probably built in the 4th century under Pope ...

The Minor Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina is dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome, deacon and martyr. The name 'Lucina' deriv ...

The Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. The Via Ostiense Museum is housed ...

The Basilica of Sts. Vitalis, Valeris, Gervase and Protase is commonly named Basilica di San Vitale. It was built in 400 with ...

The Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Dominated by two protruding tower blocks and associated guard roo ...

The Galleria Nazionale d"Arte Moderna e Contemporanea was founded in 1883 on the initiative of the then Minister Guido B ...

The Basilica dei Santi Bonifacio e(d) Alessio is a basilica, rectory church served by the Somaschans, on the Aventine Hill in ...

Sant'Agata dei Goti is dedicated to the martyr Saint Agatha. The church was built by Ricimer for the Goths c. 460. The Goths ...

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century church in the Trastevere rione. The first church on this site was founded probab ...

The Basilica of Saint Clement, dedicated to Pope Clement I, is especially notable for its three historical layers. The 12th-c ...

Santi Nereo e Achilleo is a fourth-century basilica church facing the main entrance to the Baths of Caracalla. This same buil ...

The Basilica of Saints John and Paul on the Caelian Hill was built in 398 AD over the home of two Roman soldiers, John and Pa ...

Santi Quattro Coronati is an ancient basilica in Rome. The church dates back to the 4th (or 5th) century, and is devoted to f ...

Aqua Anio Novus ('New Anio aqueduct') was an ancient Roman aqueduct. Like the Aqua Claudia, it was begun by emperor Caligula ...

The Basilica of St. Stephen in the Round on the Celian Hill (Basilica di Santo Stefano al Monte Celio), commonly named Santo ...

The Museo delle Mura ('museum of the walls') provides an exhibition on the walls of Rome and their building techniq ...

The Milvian (or Mulvian) Bridge was an economically and strategically important bridge in the era of the Roman Empire and was ...

The Amphitheatrum Castrense is a Roman amphitheatre next to the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. It is dated to the firs ...

The Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem or Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of ...

The erroneously named Temple of Minerva Medica is, in fact, a ruined nymphaeum of Imperial Rome, built in the 4th century. N ...

Sant"Eusebio is a titular church devoted to Saint Eusebius of Rome, a 4th-century martyr. The church is first mentioned ...

Santa Costanza is a 4th-century round church in Rome with well preserved original layout and mosaics. It has been built adjac ...

Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano is dedicated to Saints Marcellinus and Peter, 4th century Roman martyrs, whose relics w ...

The Baths of Trajan were a massive thermae, a bathing and leisure complex, built in ancient Rome starting from 104 AD and ded ...

Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums an ...

Valerius Romulus (c. 292/295 - 309) was the son of the Caesar and later usurper Maxentius and of Valeria Maximilla, daughter ...

San Giovanni a Porta Latina (Italian: 'Saint John Before the Latin Gate') is a Basilica church near the Aurelian Wa ...

The Aqua Anio Vetus was an ancient Roman aqueduct, and the second oldest after the Aqua Appia. It was commissioned in 272 BC ...

San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Saint Sebastian outside the walls) was built originally in the first half of the 4th century. T ...

Santa Bibiana is a small Baroque style church. The church façade was designed and built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who also pr ...

Aqua Claudia was an ancient Roman aqueduct that was begun by Emperor Caligula in 38 AD and finished by Emperor Claudius in 52 ...

The Appian Way was a Roman Road built in the 4th century BC. It led from Rome to Brindisi, and the section leading away from ...

The Seven Halls, or Sette Sale, is the name of the complex of cisterns located on the Oppian Hill. Previously believed to be ...

The Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter are ancient catacombs situated near the church of Santi Marcellino e Pietro ad Duas La ...

Catacombs of Commodilla, on the Via Ostiensis, contain one of the earliest images of a bearded Christ. They originally held t ...

The Catacomb(s) of Callixtus is one of the Catacombs of Rome on the Appian Way, most notable for containing the Crypt of the ...

Close to the Catacombs of San Callisto are the large and impressive Catacombs of Domitilla (named after Saint Domitilla), spr ...

The Catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria was used for Christian burials from the late 2nd century through the 4th century ...

The Circus of Maxentius is an ancient part of a complex erected by emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia between AD 306 and 312. ...

The Aqua Alexandrina was a Roman aqueduct located in the city of Rome. The 22.4 km long aqueduct carried water from Pantano ...

The Aqua Marcia is one of the longest of the eleven aqueducts that supplied the city of Rome. The aqueduct was built betwe ...

The Catacomb of Generosa is part of an archeological complex, rich of remains not just Christian, but also pagan. The catacom ...