Rome Travel Guide: Things to Do, Opening Hours, Itineraries

Colosseum: tickets, opening hours and visiting tips

The Colosseum, or Flavian Amphitheatre, stands on Piazza del Colosseo, at the foot of the Palatin...

Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel: tickets, opening hours, free Sunday and tips

The Vatican Museums bring together the collections assembled by the popes since the 16th century:...

St Peter's Basilica, Rome: opening hours, dome climb, dress code and tips

St Peter's Basilica, at the far end of St Peter's Square in Vatican City, was built between 1506 ...

Pantheon in Rome: tickets, opening hours and history

The Pantheon, on Piazza della Rotonda, is the best-preserved monument of ancient Rome: a temple r...

Trevi Fountain: access, coin toss and quiet hours

The Trevi Fountain, set against Palazzo Poli on the small Piazza di Trevi, is the end point of th...

Roman Forum: visiting the heart of ancient Rome

The Roman Forum fills the valley between the Capitoline and the Palatine, 300 m from the Colosseu...

Palatine Hill: imperial palaces and the view over the Circus Maximus

The Palatine Hill overlooks the Roman Forum on one side and the Circus Maximus on the other: acco...

Piazza Navona: Bernini's fountains and the Christmas market

Piazza Navona, in the heart of the historic centre, has kept the elongated shape of Emperor Domit...

Borghese Gallery: how to book to see Bernini and Caravaggio

The Borghese Gallery occupies the casino nobile of [Villa Borghese](/fr/attractions/villa-borghes...

Spanish Steps and Piazza di Spagna: visiting tips and rules

Piazza di Spagna and its staircase of 135 steps, built from 1723 to 1725 by Francesco De Sanctis,...

Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome: tickets, opening hours, terrace and Passetto

Castel Sant'Angelo, on the right bank of the Tiber opposite the Ponte Sant'Angelo, began as the m...

Villa Borghese: Rome's great park and the Pincio terrace

Villa Borghese is the large public park in the centre of Rome: about 80 hectares of umbrella pine...

Ara Pacis Museum: Augustus's Altar of Peace, opening hours and tickets

The Ara Pacis Museum, on Lungotevere in Augusta, houses the Altar of Peace that the Roman Senate ...

Basilica of San Clemente: three layers underground and a Mithraeum

The Basilica of San Clemente (San Clemente al Laterano), five minutes' walk from the Colosseum, t...

St John Lateran and the Scala Santa: opening hours, cloister and visit

The Archbasilica of St John Lateran (San Giovanni in Laterano) is the cathedral of Rome and the s...

Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica: mosaics, Pope Francis's tomb and visiting tips

The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major) crowns the Esquiline Hill, 500 metres from T...

Mouth of Truth: opening hours, donation and queue

The Mouth of Truth (Bocca della Verità) is a large marble disc carved with a bearded face, set si...

Campo de' Fiori: the market, the square and Palazzo Farnese

Campo de' Fiori, between Piazza Navona and the Tiber, is one of the liveliest squares in Rome's h...

Castel Gandolfo: the Papal Palace, Barberini gardens and Lake Albano

Castel Gandolfo, a Castelli Romani village perched above Lake Albano, has been the popes' summer ...

Catacombs of Rome: St Callixtus, St Sebastian and Domitilla, hours and tickets

Three large Christian catacombs can be visited in the south of Rome, along the Via Appia Antica a...

Capuchin Crypt in Rome: tickets, opening hours and the bone chapels

The Capuchin Crypt lies beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione, at Via Veneto 27, 300...

Domus Aurea: Nero's Golden House

The Domus Aurea is the palace Nero had built after the Great Fire of Rome in 64; its rooms surviv...

Doria Pamphilj Gallery: Caravaggio and Velázquez in a private palace

The Doria Pamphilj Gallery occupies the palace of the same name, at Via del Corso 305, a short wa...

Galleria Spada: Borromini's perspective and Palazzo Spada

The Galleria Spada occupies Palazzo Spada, on Piazza Capo di Ferro, 200 m from Campo de' Fiori: p...

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