Colosseo (The Colosseum)


The Casina del Cardinal Bessarione is an unusual example of a Renaissance villa outside the city in an area full of testimonials to the Republican and Imperial eras.
Admired by poets and writers such as Goethe, Stendhal, Gogol and D’Annunzio, the Villa Ludovisi with its enchanting gardens stood on the ancient Horti Sallustiani and occupied an a
[...]The building, also knows as Casino di Allegrezze or delle Statue, is located inside the Villa Doria Pamphily.
The Casino del Graziano is a delightful building surrounded by the greenery of Villa Borghese, near the entrance to the Bioparco, in Viale del Giardino Zoologico.
Built in the early 1600s at the behest of the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani, designed by Carlo Lambardi, the elegant two-storey casino, with a loggia opening onto a
[...]Located in the Giuliano-Dalmata district, the historical complex is characterized by different construction periods.
The Catacomb of Priscilla is the best preserved and the oldest general cemetery of Early Christian Rome. It is located along Via Salaria.
Usate già come luogo funerario pagano, le Catacombe di San Sebastiano si trasformarono in necropoli cristiana verso la fine del II secolo, dedicate ai SS. Pietro e Paolo.
Attiguo alla Chiesa di S. Giovanni Battista dei genovesi, il chiostro è il migliore esempio di chiostro quattrocentesco.
The Carcer Tullianum is one of the most important and fascinating monuments of the Roman Republic at the time. It holds a great historical and archaeological wealth for over 3,000 years.
On the slopes of the Celio, underneath the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo is the extraordinary archaeological complex that contains over four centuries of history
[...]This burial ground is situated at the crossing between Via Ostiense and Via delle Sette Chiese in the surroundings of the Basilica di San Paolo.
A short distance from Porta Maggiore, along the route of Via Statilia, which owes its name to the powerful Roman "gens" who had many possessions in this area and which takes up the
[...]In the north corner of the garden in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II there are the ruins of the lateritious monumental structure called, since the Middle Ages, "Trophies of Mario" due to the presence o
[...]"Wonderful place. Messenger of stone. Heavenly music. Dark presences. What you are looking for is at the English, the Artists and the Poets’ cemetery."
Cimitero Flaminio (noto anche come Cimitero di Prima Porta) è stato consacrato nel 1941 ed è considerato un capolavoro di architettura cimiteriale contemporanea.
The Verano Monumental Cemetery covers an area of about 83 hectares.
To an untrained eye the Circus of Maxentius just looks like a vast green pasture where locals jog or take their dogs for a walk, but in ancient times this oblong ground was, as its
[...]It is one of the largest water tanks from antiquity and since the Middle Ages this monumental complex gained the name Sette Sale (Seven Halls), although in reality
[...]Il progetto della Città Universitaria prende avvio nel 1932 ad opera dell’architetto razionalista Marcello Piacentini e vedrà la sua realizzazione nel 1935 con le sedi di Giurisprudenza, Lettere, S
[...]The two sepulchres are spread over an area crossed by the via Latina and via Labicana, an agricultural area characterized by the presence of the Claudian aqueduct.
The term columbarium refers to a burial chamber which walls are covered with rows of niches in which cinerary urns, small clay pots containing the ashes of the deceased, were placed.
The Trajan’s Column is the only monument in the Roman Forum that has reached us practically intact.
The construction of the largest amphitheater of the Roman Empire was started by Vespasian in 72 AD.