Best places: Monuments in Rome, Italy

Catholic place of worship with 5th-century origins & a transept with Michelangelo's statue of Moses.

Iconic temple built circa 118 to 125 A.D. with a dome & Renaissance tombs, including Raphael's.

👍👍 Its construction began in 1885 and ended in 1911. It was built to commemorate the unification of Italy and its people and to honor the first King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele II. The equestrian statue in the center of the monument is in fact his portrait. The sculpture is made from the bronze casting...

Square with an elaborate Victorian monument known as 'the typewriter' by locals & Palazzo Venezia.

Carved military scenes line this 2nd-century AD marble column, honouring Marcus Aurelius' victories.

Triumphal arch with inscriptions & sculptures honoring the military victories of Emperor Titus.

Steps with irregular butterfly-shaped design, built in 18th century at French diplomat's bequest.

Remains of an ancient walkway originally built in the 2nd century B.C. to link two Roman temples.

👍 Well-kept archaeological site with ample parking. The catacombs of Saints Marcellinus and Peter are located on Via Casilina, the third mile of the ancient Via Labicana in Rome. They were also called catacombs of Sant'Elena or Catacombs of San Tiburzio. The area was part of an imperial estate owned b...

Landmark sculpture created in 1667, depicting an obelisk & an ornate marble elephant.

Replica of the mighty 2nd-century AD bronze statue depicting the famous Roman emperor on horseback.

👍👍 The name Gianicolo, Latin Janiculum, goes back to the god Janus. The Janiculum, Rome's eighth hill, was already indispensable for the control and defense of the city in ancient times, so that a flag was hoisted as a sign of security when popular meetings took place on the Field of Mars. The Faro del...

Concrete obelisk covered in ornately carved white marble, commissioned in 1939 & completed in 1959.

👍 It's a beautiful fountain with 4 lions round it. It looked amazing first thing in the morning as the sun started to rise, well worth a look when mooching around rome.

👍👍 Absolutely recommended. Always worth a visit. You can spend hours here.

👍👍 Just great! Absolutely recommended

A fluted marble column dedicated to an emperor, added to the Roman Forum in the 7th century AD.

Walking tours of a 17th-century mansion & courtyard where the master painter Caravaggio once stayed.

👍 A beautiful place for a trip (but you cannot enter with dogs or have a picnic in the park) but above all a unique testimony in terms of history and structure. A quadrangular arch (the only one visible in Rome is the reopened arch of Janus), probably built on the site of the camp where the emperor Co...

Door with alchemical inscriptions & statues of Egyptian gods, once part of a 1600s villa.