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Capitolines Museums [1][2][3][4][5]
[Capitolines Museums]

The Capitoline Museums (Italian Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the famous Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of over 400 years. The history of the museums can be traced to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and located them on Capitoline Hill. Since then, the museums' collection has grown to include a large number of ancient Roman statues, inscriptions, and other artifacts; a collection of medieval and Renaissance art; and collections of jewels, coins, and other items. The museums are owned and operated by the municipality of Rome.

Metro: Colosseo

Casa Museo di De Chirico [1][2][3][4][5]
[Casa Museo di De Chirico]

Metro: Spagna

Circus Maximus [1][2][3][4][5]
[Circus Maximus]

The Circus Maximus (Latin for greatest circus, in Italian Circo Massimo) is an ancient hippodrome and mass entertainment venue located in Rome.

Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, the location was first utilised for public games and entertainment by the Etruscan kings of Rome. Certainly, the first games of the Ludi Romani (Roman Games) were staged at the location by Tarquinius Priscus, the first Etruscan ruler of Rome. Somewhat later, the Circus was the site of public games and festivals influenced by the Greeks in the 2nd century BC. Meeting the demands of the Roman citizenry for mass public entertainment on a lavish scale, Julius Caesar expanded the Circus around 50 BC, after which the track measured approximately 600 m (1,968 ft) in length, 80 m (387 ft) in breadth and could accommodate an estimated 250,000 spectators.

Metro: Circo Massimo

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica Palazzo Barberini [1][2][3][4][5]
[Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica Palazzo Barberini]
  • Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, 00184 Roma
  • Zone: Colosseum
  • +39 06 32810 (info); fax +39 06 32651329 (reservations)
  • www.galleriaborghese.it
  • Tuesday till sunday from 8.30 am to 19.30 pm; closed mondays and 25th, 27th of december, 1st and 2nd of january

Galleria Borghese, Galleria Barberini, Galleria Corsini e Galleria Spada have their residence in this magnificent palace

Bus: 52, 53, 56, 58, 58/, 60, 61, 95, 116, 175, 492, 590

Metro: Barberini – Fontana di Trevi

Museo della Civiltà Romana [1][2][3][4][5]
[Museo della Civiltà Romana]
  • piazza G. Agnelli 10, 00144 Roma
  • +39 06 5926135 -041
Museo Napoleonico [1][2][3][4][5]
[Museo Napoleonico]

Bus: 70, 81, 87, 116, 186, 280, 492, 628

Museum of Rome - Braschi Palace [1][2][3][4][5]
[Museum of Rome - Braschi Palace]

The Museum of Rome possesses a wide variety of articles relating to the history of the city from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century. They bear witness to the transformations that occurred geographically and in the various aspects of cultural life in the Capital. Furniture production, carriages and sedan chairs, architecture and urban features, mosaics and frescoes saved from demolition, medieval ceramics, woodcuts for fabrics of the 18th and 19th centuries, clothing and tapestries from those periods all contribute to the collection.
The collection of paintings in noteworthy: alongside the works of high artistic value such as those of Andrea Sacchi, Pierre Subleyras, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Marco Benefial and Pompeo Batoni, there are those that have enormous value as documents, painted between the 16th and 18th centuries to celebrate ceremonies and civil as well as religious events.

Bus: 40 express, 30 express, 46, 62, 64, 70, 81, 87, 116, 492, 628

Museum of Rome in Trastevere [1][2][3][4][5]
[Museum of Rome in Trastevere]

Il Museo di Roma in Trastevere ha in Piazza SantEgidio, in un edificio storico che dal XVII secolo fino a dopo l'unità d'Italia fu convento delle Carmelitane scalze. Anche la piazza deve il suo nome al monastero, nel quale è inclusa la chiesetta di Sant'Egidio.
Il primo nucleo del monastero fu fondato nel 1601 presso la chiesina di S. Lorenzo in Ianiculo, poi restaurata e dedicata a S. Egidio, per ospitare l'ordine religioso delle Carmelitane Scalze. Su richiesta di Vittoria Colonna, nel 1628, papa Urbano VIII concesse alle monache anche la chiesa dei Santi Crispino e Crispiniano, proprietà dell'Università dei Calzolari, attigua a quella di S. Egidio. Quest'ultima venne demolita ed incorporata nel monastero. Di essa il Museo conserva, al piano terra, la lapide in marmo dell'Università dei Calzolai, risalente al 1614.

Bus: H, 3, 8, 23, 44, 75, 116, 280, 630

Palazzo Venezia Museums [1][2][3][4][5]
[Palazzo Venezia Museums]

Vi sono rappresentate praticamente tutte le arti applicate medioevali e rinascimentali: bronzi, terrecotte, ceramiche, argenti, porcellane orientali, arazzi e stoffe provenienti da donazioni e lasciti. Un panorama d'arte e d'arte applicata che copre circa quindici secoli, dalle stoffe copte e proto-islamiche del IV secolo all'epoca barocca. Spiccano in particolare gli smalti bizantini e medioevali, il "trittico di Alba Fucens", opera di scultura e oreficeria del '300, le sculture medioevali di Arnolfo, Nicola Pisano e Tino di Camaino, gli intagli e le sculture lignee medioevali dell'Italia Centrale e i dipinti di grandi pittori quali Paolo Veneziano, Gozzoli, Solimena, Giambellino, Guercino, Crespi, Cranach e numerosi altri.

Bus: bus 64 da Termini con fermata davanti al Museo; 40, 63, 70, 75, 81, 87, 95, 160, 170, 204, 628, 630, 716

Metro: Colosseo

Pantheon [1][2][3][4][5]
[Pantheon]

The Pantheon (Latin Pantheon from Greek Πάνθεον Pantheon, meaning "Temple of all the Gods") is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to the seven deities of the seven planets in the state religion of Ancient Rome, but which has been a Christian church since the 7th century. It is the best-preserved of all Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use throughout its history. Although the identity of the Pantheon's primary architect remains uncertain, it is largely assigned to Apollodorus of Damascus. The original Pantheon was built in 27 b.C.e-25 b.C.e. under the Roman Empire, during the third consulship of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and his name is inscribed on the portico of the building. The inscription reads M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIUM·FECIT, "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, during his third consulate, built this". It was originally built with adjoining baths and water gardens.

Piazza Navona [1][2][3][4][5]
[Piazza Navona]

Piazza Navona is a square in Rome. The piazza follows the plan of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones ("games"): today's name stems from the corruption of the latter in in agone, then nagone and navona, which actually means "big ship" in Italian.

Defined as a square in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred here from the Campidoglio, Piazza Navona is now the pride of Baroque Rome. It has sculptural and architectural creations: by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers, 1651) in the center; by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi, the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone; and by Pietro da Cortona, who painted the gallery in the Pamphilj palace.

Metro: Barberini-Fontana di Trevi

The Baths of Caracalla [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Baths of Caracalla]

The Baths of Caracalla were Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between 212 and 216 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. The extensive ruins of the baths have become a popular tourist attraction.
The bath complex covered approximately 13 hectares (33 ac). The bath building was 228 meters (750 ft) long, 116 meters (380 ft) wide and 38.5 meters (125 ft) estimated height, and could hold an estimated 1,600 bathers.
The Caracalla bath complex of buildings was more a leisure centre than just a series of baths. The "baths" were the second to have a public library within the complex. Like other public libraries in Rome, there were two separate and equal sized rooms or buildings; one for Greek language texts and one for Latin language texts.

Metro: Circo Massimo

The Capitoline Hill [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Capitoline Hill]

The Capitoline Hill (Latin: Mons Capitolinus, Italian: Campidoglio or Monte Capitolino), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the most famous and smallest of the seven hills of Rome. The English word capitol derives from Capitoline Hill.
It was the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad, started by Rome's fifth king, Tarquinius Priscus. It was considered one of the largest and the most beautiful temples in the city (although little now remains) and was probably founded on an earlier, Etruscan temple of Veiovis, whose remains and cult statue still survive. The role of the Capitoline Hill in city legend is linked with the recovery during the Regal period of a human head (the word for head in Latin is caput) when the foundation trenches were being dug for the Temple of Jupiter.

Metro: Colosseo

The Colosseum [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Colosseum]
  • Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Roma
  • Zone: Colosseum

The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is a giant amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome Originally capable of seating 45,000–50,000 spectators, it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. It was built on a site just east of the Roman Forum, with construction starting between 70 and 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian. The amphitheatre, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire, was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign. The Colosseum measures 189×156 by 45.7 meters (620×513 by 150 feet).

Metro: Colosseo

The Domus Aurea [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Domus Aurea]
  • Via della Domus Aurea, 00184 Roma
  • Zone: Colosseum

The Domus Aurea (Latin for "Golden House") was a large landscaped "portico villa", designed to take advantage of artificially created landscapes, rather than a monumental palace, built in the heart of Ancient Rome by the Roman emperor Nero after Great fire of Rome, which devastated Rome in 64 AD, had cleared away the aristocratic dwellings on the slopes of the Esquiline Hill. Built of brick (not marble as is sometimes imagined) in the few years between the fire and Nero's suicide in 68, the extensive gold-leaf that gave it its name was not the only extravagant element of its decor: stuccoed ceilings were applied with semi-precious stones and veneers of ivory. Pliny the Elder watched it being built.
The Golden House was a party villa, as shown by the presence of 300 rooms without any sleeping quarter. Nero's own palace remained on the Quirinal Hill. Strangely, no kitchens or latrines have been rediscovered yet either.

Metro: Colosseo

The Roman Forum [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Roman Forum]

The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum, although the Romans called it more often the Forum Magnum or just the Forum) was the central area around which ancient Rome developed, in which commerce, prostitution, cult, and the administration of justice took place. The communal hearth was also located here.

Sequences of remains of paving show that sediment eroded from the surrounding hills was already raising the level of the forum in early Republican times. Originally it had been marshy ground, which was drained by the Tarquins with the Cloaca Maxima. Its final travertine paving, still visible, dates from the reign of Augustus.

Metro: Colosseo

The Spanish Steps [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Spanish Steps]

The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) is a set of stairs in Rome, ramping a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, with the church under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, Trinità dei Monti, above.
The monumental stairway, of 138 steps, was built with French diplomat Stefano Gueffier’s funds (20,000 scudi) in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish embassy to the Holy See, today still located in the piazza below, with the Trinità dei Monti church above.
The Spanish Steps were designed by Francesco De Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi after generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanized. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs.

Metro: Spagna

The Trevi Fountain [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Trevi Fountain]

The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is the largest — standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide — and most ambitious of the Baroque fountains of Rome. It is located in the rione of Trevi.
The fountain at the juncture of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the Aqua Virgo (Italian: Acqua Vergine), one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8 miles) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's facade). However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14 miles). This Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for more than four hundred years. The "coup de grace" for the urban life of late classical Rome came when the Goth besiegers broke the aqueducts.

Metro: Barberini - Fontana di Trevi

The Vatican Museums [1][2][3][4][5]
[The Vatican Museums]

The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the 16th century. The Sistine Chapel and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. As of November 2006, it was visited by more than 4,000,000 people for the year.
The Vatican Museums trace their origin to one marble sculpture, purchased 500 years ago. The sculpture of Laocoön, the priest who, according to Greek mythology, tried to convince the people of ancient Troy not to accept the Greeks' "gift" of a hollow horse, was discovered 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to check out the discovery.

Bus 907, 991, 81, 51, 23, 49, 19, 990, 64

Metro: Cipro–Musei Vatic

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