ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS AND SITES - CHURCHES - PICTURE GALLERIES
ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS AND SITES
Capitoline Museums - Museo della Centrale Montemartini
Includes the most important collections of ancient art
Museum of Roman Civilization
Plastic miniatures, models and reproductions of Ancient
Rome and its monuments
National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia
A Renaissance villa and home of Etruscan and pre-Roman
civilization
National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
- Aula Ottagona
Three great collections of ancient art, great sculptures,
frescoes, mosaics, epigraphs and objects from everyday
Roman life
Museo di Palazzo Altemps
A Renaissance building, home to restored sculptures
by great Baroque artists.
Museo della Crypta Balbi and Zona Sacra di Largo Argentina
Republican temples at the site of Julius Ceasar's
murder; it's the only museum that contemplates
the life of Medieval Rome
Trajan's Markets
The first shopping center in the world!
Baths of Caracalla
Fitness center in the Imperial age and concert stage
for The Three Tenors:
Pavarotti, Carreras, and Domingo
CHURCHES
Major Basilicas and important places of worship
St. Paul's, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, Santa
Croce in Gerusalemme, San Paolo alle Tre Fontane, St.
Lawrence Outside the Walls, St. Agnes Outside the Walls
Medieval Churches
Especially interesting for the architecture, the mosaics
and for the medieval paintings: Santa Prassede, Santa
Sabina, Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Santo Stefano Rotondo,
Santi Quattro Coronati, Santa Cecilia, Santa Maria in
Aracoeli
Baroque Churches
Artistic proof of Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona,
and other great artists from the 1600s: St. Charles
with the Four Fountains, St. Andrew at the Quirinal,
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Santa Maria in Vallicella, Sant'Andrea
della Valle, St. Maria della Vittoria, Gesu, St. Ignazio
Other Famous Churches
The home of many important works commissioned to great
artists by popes and cardinals: Santa Maria del Popolo
(Caravaggio), St. Louis of the French (Caravaggio),
St. Augustine (Caravaggio and Raphael), Cripta dei Cappuccini,
St. Peter in Chains (Moses by Michelangelo), Santa Maria
Sopra Minerva (Cristo di Michelangelo), St. Mary of
the Angels.
PICTURE GALLERIES
The Colonna Gallery
A splendid art gallery within the walls of this Palazzo,
still owned by an ancient noble Roman family (open only
on Saturday mornings)
The Doria Pamphilj Gallery
Another splendid art gallery within the walls of this
Palazzo, also still owned by an ancient noble Roman
family, which includes two masterpieces by Caravaggio
and the Double Portrait by Raphael
Villa Farnesina
Residence of a Renaissance banker, painted by Raphael
and his school
Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Corsini, Galleria Nazionale
di Palazzo Barberini, Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo
Spada
Ex palazzi of an ancient noble family, today the home
of beautiful art collections
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
A great collection of Italian and international art
from the 1800s and the 1900s
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