© FeaturedPics · CC BY-SA 4.0ColosseumRoma CapitaleThe Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in central Rome, just east of the Roman Forum. It stands on a flat area between the Caelian, Esquiline and Palatine Hills, where a canalised stream once ran. The site was once part of Nero’s grand Domus Aurea, built after the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64. After Nero’s death,… read moreOpen place
© NikonZ7II · CC BY-SA 4.0PantheonRomThe Pantheon stands in Rome’s historic centre, a circular temple turned church. Its portico of massive granite columns leads into a vast rotunda topped by the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. The oculus at the dome’s summit opens directly to the sky, letting in light and rain alike. Inside, the walls are… read moreOpen place
© Messapi, cropped by Blackcat · CC BY-SA 4.0Stadio OlimpicoRomThe Olympic Stadium stands in Rome’s Foro Italico sports complex on the right bank of the Tiber, a vast flat area once marshy ground at the foot of Monte Mario hill. Built in the 1920s and 1930s for fascist youth organisations, it was later enlarged for the 1960 Olympics and roofed for the 1990 World Cup. Today it is… read moreOpen place
© Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0Roman ForumRomThe Roman Forum stands in a shallow valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills at the heart of Rome. Once a marshy lake drained by the Tarquins’ Cloaca Maxima, it became the city’s principal public square. For centuries it served as the stage for triumphal processions, elections, criminal trials and gladiatorial… read moreOpen place
© NikonZ7II · CC BY-SA 4.0Trevi FountainRomThe Trevi Fountain stands in Rome’s Trevi district at the junction of three streets. Built in the 18th century by Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the world. The structure rises 26 metres high and spans nearly 50 metres wide. Its water comes from the restored Aqua… read moreOpen place
© Mario1952 · CC BY-SA 3.0Province of RomeLatiumThe province of Rome once covered the whole metropolitan area of Italy’s capital. It stretched from the Tyrrhenian coast inland to the Alban Hills. The province was created in 1870 after Italian troops took Rome from the Papal States. At first it included five districts: Rome itself, Civitavecchia, Frosinone, Velletri… read moreOpen place
© Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys) · CC BY-SA 3.0Capitoline HillRomCapitoline Hill stands between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius, one of Rome’s seven hills. Known in Latin as Mons Capitolinus, it was once called Mons Saturnius after the god Saturn. The hill’s name may come from the discovery of a human head during temple excavations. The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus… read moreOpen place
© Jebulon · CC0Palatine HillMunicipio IThe Palatine Hill stands at the heart of Rome, the central of the city’s seven hills. It is an open-air museum where visitors walk over layers of history beneath their feet. The hill rises in two summits: the higher Palatium and the lower Germalus. Imperial palaces once crowned the ridge, beginning with Augustus in… read moreOpen place
© NikonZ7II · CC BY-SA 4.0Archbasilica of St. John LateranRomThe Lateran Basilica stands in Rome’s eastern quarter on land once held by the Laterani, an old Roman family. Beneath its nave lie the remains of a cavalry fort built by Septimius Severus in AD 193. Constantine the Great gave the site to the Bishop of Rome after defeating Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. Pope… read moreOpen place
© Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0Castel Sant'AngeloRomCastel Sant’Angelo stands beside the Tiber in Rome, a massive cylindrical tomb turned fortress. Built in the 2nd century as Hadrian’s mausoleum, it was crowned with a garden and a gilded bronze chariot. Later popes walled it into their defences and linked it to St Peter’s by the Passetto di Borgo. The fortress walls… read moreOpen place
