- 1sight
7 votes
Christendom's first basilica, badly damaged by a bomb attack in 1993, was quickly restored. From ...
- 2sight
13 votes
The chains with which St Peter is said to have been bound in the Mamertine Dungeon are preserved ...
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- 4sight
4 votes
The relief-adorned Arch of Constantine was erected next to the Colosseum to mark Emperor Constant...
- 5sight
5 votes
Dominated by a temple to Mars the Avenger, the Roman god of war and meant as a memorial to the ba...
- 6sight
1 votes
The Forum Julium, as it is properly known, was built by Julius Caesar at his own expense. One can...
- 7sight
5 votes
The dazzling whiteness of the 38 m high Trajan's Column (built in 113 AD), once the centrepiece o...
- 8sight
7 votes
It is here that the foundation stone of the Roman Empire was laid. On the Palatine Hill is where ...
- 9sight
2 votes
The striking feature at Piazza Venezia is a snow-white marble block, the national monument to Vic...
- 10sight
7 votes
The "Mouth of Truth" is a life-size, grotesque marble face in the atrium of Santa Maria in Cosmed...
- 11sight
19 votes
2000 years ago, the Circus Maximus resounded to the cheers which urged on death-defying gladiator...
- 12neighborhood
22 votes
Immerse yourself in a maze of little streets where people used to hang their washing over the str...
- 13sight
9 votes
The facade of the oldest Church of our Lady in Rome, dating from the 3rd century, rises up from b...
- 14sight
1 votes
According to legend, St Peter was crucified in this church, but most visitors are attracted to th...
- 15sight
2 votes
Rome's only Gothic church, built in 1280 from the remains of the Temple of Minerva. To the left o...
- 16sight
141 votes
This Roman temple, designed in the 1st century BC, in the shape of a cylinder with a dome on top,...
- 17sight
117 votes
Rome's most attractive and most popular baroque square. Still the Romans' favourite meeting place....
- 18sight
5 votes
The Augustinian church where Martin Luther celebrated mass with his fellow monks in 1510 is direc...
- 19neighborhood
28 votes
Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae; Stato del...
- 20sight
7 votes
Rome's most beautiful bridge, the Ponte San Angelo, is for pedestrians only and leads directly fr...
- 21sight
250 votes
You're not even allowed to dip your little toe into Rome's most popular Baroque fountain, but eve...
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- 23hotel
4 votes
Magical and always fully booked. Goethe, Keats and Shelley could not have stayed anywhere more spl...
