An Ideal Walk along Rome
Travel guide to Rome (Italy) presenting the best places to visit in this beautiful city, rich in masterpieces and architectural jewels.
Purpose of this article is to introduce hidden treasures and places in Rome unknown to the mass but enchanting for their beauty and historical value.
(We reccommend to choose an hotel in the center of Rome in order to be walking distance from all these places)
Piazza Barberini
Once an important meeting place for the aristocracy sponsored by the Barberini family, is now one of the main trade center in Rome, ideal for shopping. palazzo barberini hosts a painting gallery and artistic masterpieces unique in the world
Piazza Venezia
The geographic centre of Rome. At the centre the white imposing mass of the Altare della Patria, tells the story of Italy in the marbles of its relieves.
Piazza Navona
From the Stadium of the Emperor Domiziano to the drawing room of Baroque Rome, passing on to the sacrifice of the young martyr Agnese, celebrated in thesplendid church that faces the piazza.
Palazzo dei Conservatori
The frescoed room, the courtyard with its imposing statues, the pictues and the sculptures of the capitoline collection, make of this place one of the most interesting in Rome for history and culture.
San Pietro in Vincoli
The statue of Moses, sculpted by Michelangelo with great verisimilitude and power to provoke its author to throw down his chisel crying “why don’t you speak?”. Among history and legend, the tale of a monument which was never finished but also very much re-touched by artists through the years.
Circo Massimo
The race course for chariots which had great success here in Rome: this explains the enormous capacity of the Circo and its imposing presence in the fabric of the city.
Foro Romano
The ancient Forum of the citi boasts a multi century history and conserves the signs of a progressive sedimentation of ages and cultures. Its principal monuments are described in the plan.
Sinagoga
The Israelite Temple is the place of cult and memory, with its connected museum. An instructive and fascinating visit, under the guide of the personnel of the museum.
Ponte Sant’Angelo
A walkway of angels which look down as you walk across the bridge, the memory of a past time in which the castle was a place of imprisonment and suffering.
Castel Sant’Angelo
A perfect structure in its form and function, From the tomb of the Emperor Adriano to the Papal prison, rich in splendid pictoresque decorations and intersting museum relics.
St. Peter Basilica
The evolution and the most important Dome in Christianity: from its foundation (Costantino) to its modern facade, passing through Bramante and Michelangelo, whose dome remains the indisputed symbol if Catholicism in the world.
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