Top rated Historic sites in Rome, Italy to elevate your visit (Updated April, 2024)

Top rated Historic sites in Rome

Experience the best that Rome has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 24 places from Historic site category.

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Antoninus and Faustina Temple

Historical place

Ancient Roman temple built by Emperor Antoninus on his wife's death in 141 AD, with noted frieze.

4.80 (334 reviews)

Palatine Hill

Historical place

👍👍 Palatine Hill contains gardens and buildings. It has wonderful views, particularly of the Forum. There are toilets available. You can enter this area at any time using your ticket. Some of the buildings can only be entered if you have the right ticket. I had the basic one, which did not allow me ent...

4.80 (230 reviews)

Palazzo Poli

Historical place

This ornate 17th-century palazzo forms a striking backdrop for the iconic Trevi Fountain.

4.80 (171 reviews)

Ipogeo di Via Livenza

Historical place

👍👍 You can find the story copied everywhere. I'll tell you about the experience. An anonymous avenue of a garage twenty meters from Via Po, a small door next to it, a steep and dark staircase and you will find yourself in a single unique environment. No, it's not an error....unique because it is only o...

4.80 (47 reviews)

Campidoglio

Historical place

Hilltop square designed by Michelangelo, lined with museums & offering views of the Roman forum.

4.70 (21.6K reviews)

Trajan's Forum

Historical landmark

Remains of the Roman square, built in the 2nd-century, with a column celebrating victory over Dacia.

4.70 (8.9K reviews)

Arch of Constantine

Historical landmark

A 21m-high Roman structure made up of 3 arches decorated with figures & battle scenes.

4.70 (5.3K reviews)

Quirinal Palace

Historical place

Former royal & papal residence, now the presidential palace & museum, on piazza offering city views.

4.70 (4.1K reviews)

Piazza di Siena

Tourist attraction

Grassy area dating from the 1790s, now used for al fresco performances & show-jumping competitions.

4.70 (2.6K reviews)

Foro di Augusto

Historical landmark

Ancient ruins of a forum built to include a temple to Mars & provide space for legal proceedings.

4.70 (1.2K reviews)

Lateranense Palace

Historical place

An ancient palace & papal home from the 4th to 14th centuries, rebuilt in the 1500s & now a museum.

4.70 (1K reviews)

Tabularium

Historical place

Remains of building that conserved bronze tabulae containing official deeds & laws of Roman State.

4.70 (237 reviews)

House of Grifi on Palatine Hill

Historical place

👍👍 On the Palatine Hill there is the "House of the Griffins", an important example of a two-storey construction from the Republican period (1st - 2nd century BC), whose remains are well preserved, the name was attributed to it because, inside a lunette, there are decorations with griffins. Unfortunate...

4.70 (83 reviews)

Baths of Caracalla

Ruin

Ruins of a vast rectangular-shaped Roman thermal bath complex used from around 216 A.D. to 537 A.D.

4.60 (20.9K reviews)

Marcellus Theater

Historical place

Roman theater started by Julius Caesar & pre-dating the Colosseum, the setting for summer concerts.

4.60 (9.6K reviews)

Aurelian Walls

Historical place

Well-preserved sections of the walls built 271–275AD under Roman emperors Aurelian & Probus.

4.60 (1.5K reviews)

Palazzo Farnese

Castle

Renowned Renaissance palace built, in part, by Michelangelo, now used as French embassy, plus tours.

4.60 (1.4K reviews)

Ruderi di Galèria Antica

Historical place

👍👍 A beautiful abandoned medieval village causes a malaria epidemic. Access to the village is a bit complicated as there are no signs, the path that leads there has been closed by private owners (there is a pedestrian access next to the gate) so you have to park on the roadside on the right , then you...

4.60 (143 reviews)

Palazzo Wedekind

Historical place

👍👍 The Wedekind Palace is located in the historic center of Rome, Rione III (Colonna) in Piazza Colonna at n.366, today used as the headquarters of the INPS. By the Romans it was also called "Palazzo del TIME" because it had hosted the headquarters of the Roman newspaper of the same name for a long ti...

4.60 (106 reviews)

Circus Maximus

Historical place

Green space & remains of a stone & marble arena that could seat 250,000 Romans for chariot races.

4.50 (53K reviews)

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Top rated Historic sites in Rome, Italy