Hidden gems - Historical landmarks in Rome, Italy not to miss (Updated May, 2024)

Hidden gems: Historical landmarks in Rome

Discover the city's hidden treasures—remarkable spots that are relatively undiscovered but offer exceptional experiences. Our selection criteria? A rating of 4.5 or higher with fewer than 150 reviews. Explore these lesser-known yet outstanding places that promise a delightful visit in Rome. This list contains 41 places from Historical landmark category.

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Piazzale delle Corporazioni

Historical landmark

👍👍 Great to see Roman city life so easily, you walk and walk, climb stairs and see everything for yourselves. It was a city of around 50.000 people and around 17.000 of them were slaves. You can easily recognise the communal baths and toilets to theatre and merchant places. Should be at your 10 great t...

4.90 (18 reviews)

Torre di Perna

Historical landmark

👍 Handsome

4.90 (9 reviews)

Domus Tiberiana - Roman Forums

Historical landmark

👍👍 Let's clarify by starting with a spoiler: Tiberius had nothing to do with it and most likely this complex was part of the immense Domus aurea and was built under the empire of the mistreated Nero. It has been remodeled and reused over time, until it was used less and less and was used as a landfill...

4.80 (99 reviews)

Palazzo Falconieri

Historical landmark

👍👍 Palazzo Falconieri is located adjacent to the church of Santa Maria dell'Orazione e della Morte and not far from Palazzo Farnese. He is famous as the architect from Bissone Francesco Borromini was commissioned to restore it by Orazio Falconieri, who purchased it in 1638. His task was to expand its s...

4.80 (68 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)

Temple of Vespasian and Titus

Historical landmark

Ruins of a 1st-century dynastic temple, with 3 remaining columns & an inscribed architrave.

4.70 (102 reviews)

Base of the Statue of Nero

Historical landmark

4.70 (100 reviews)

Palazzo San Callisto

Historical landmark

😐 The Palace of San Callisto is a Baroque palace in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere and extraterritorial area of the Holy See in Italy. The building stands on the central square of the neighborhood and is adjacent to the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere. In the courtyard of the palace there...

4.70 (84 reviews)

Palazzo Sciarra Colonna Carbognano

Historical landmark

Grand 17th-century mansion housing fine artworks & halls with elaborately painted ceilings.

4.70 (72 reviews)

Milliarium Aureum

Historical landmark

😐 Only the symbol of this was but of which one can only admire a frieze on a block of marble which in the absence of reading the panel will be ignored by most. Practically from the bronze column (therefore golden) which constituted the milestone of km 0, the distances of the size of the empire were ca...

4.70 (64 reviews)

Terme dei Sette Sapienti

Historical landmark

👍👍 THESE BATHS AGE 117-138 AD. THEY TAKE THEIR NAME FROM THE PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN! THE SPA WAS USED BY THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD NOT JUST THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS! THEY HAD COLD BATHROOMS AND VARIOUS WARM ROOMS WITH MOSAICS DECORATING THE WALLS

4.70 (22 reviews)

Fosso di Ponte Terra

Historical landmark

👍 A beautiful route between cuts and streams just a few kilometers from the town centre.

4.70 (16 reviews)

Ponte Lupo

Historical landmark

👍👍 From the Selciatella Bridge you can walk along the river bed upstream and arrive (via the river and therefore within public property) in front of the imposing Ponte Lupo, cross it and enter the splendid gorge upstream of the bridge which leads to the highest waterfall in the province of Rome, namely...

4.70 (15 reviews)

Taberne dei Pescivendoli

Historical landmark

👍👍 ANOTHER SITE THAT EXCITED ME AND MADE ME GO BACK WITH MY IMAGINATION TO THAT TIME!

4.70 (7 reviews)

Capanne di Romolo

Historical landmark

The hill at the city's heart, site of the Roman Forum complex of temples & government buildings.

4.60 (109 reviews)

Sepolcri dei Festoni e del Frontespizio

Historical landmark

😐 Two other symbols of the queen viarum which, however, are only Canina's pretext to show some finds from the surrounding tombs (fortunately in this case too the most precious finds are in the Roman national museum). The relief with the festoons that gives its name to the ara monument and the so-calle...

4.60 (105 reviews)

Acquedotti romani

Historical landmark

👍👍 Park where you can go jogging with the possibility of having a picnic for both lunch and dinner. Next door there is a very good pizzeria called Fermentum, try it to believe it.

4.60 (100 reviews)

Curia Iulia

Historical landmark

Largely intact senate house built in 44 BC, though converted into a basilica in the 7th century.

4.60 (95 reviews)

Mausoleo di Pompeo Magno o Torre Selce

Historical landmark

👍👍 If you look for it you will find it with the name of Torre selce and not as a mausoleum. It stands on a mausoleum but you can't see much of it because it just seems like a hill to the inattentive traveller. It is one of the most surprising attractions of this stretch of Appia Antica and thanks to th...

4.60 (95 reviews)

Arch of Drusus

Historical landmark

👍👍 As we would say in Rome, it is a somewhat "fake" attraction, i.e. artificial in that it is not a triumphal monument attributable to the triumph of Drusus but a simple fornix of the Antonine aqueduct which passed here....then the position has made sure that the Romans themselves embellished it with t...

4.60 (87 reviews)

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Hidden gems: Historical landmarks in Rome, Italy