Rome sights

The largest arena where gladiators used to do battle with beasts. The Italians would have loved to dedicate the Colosseum to football but so far only the ballerinas from the Bolshoi Theatre have been a...

An ingenious structure - a cylinder with a dome. A drum with a dome on top of it - the construction of the Pantheon is simple and yet inspired. Marcus Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus, had it built to h...

Rome's most attractive and most popular baroque square. This baroque arena with Neptune's Fountain is still the most popular meeting place for all Romans today. A magnificent setting.

This is where Caesar and Cicero used to stroll - the ancient centre of power. Even Cesar and Cicero strolled along these ways. The Forum Romanum, the centre of power of ancient Rome, has to this day pr...

The Spanish Steps really do contain a lot of steps - and usually lots of people too. The vibrant balustrades of the Spanish Steps below the French Church of Trinità dei Monti are the harmonious result ...

address: Piazza di Spagna, Roma 00187

A market for vegetables, clothes and tittle-tattle. It is the most expensive market in Rome, but many Romans swear by their Campo de' Fiori, the "field of flowers" in the heart of the city where there ...

This large Renaissance piazza was the meeting place for everybody who came down Via Cassia or Via Flaminia. Giuseppe Valadier created the classical steps and galleries leading up to Pincio in 1830.

With the "Golden House", Emperor Nero built the most expensive and largest ancient palace. "The vestibule was so vast that it housed a colossal statue of Nero rising to a height of 35.5 m." The palace...