Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Rome, Italy

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 4.9 km
Ascend 114 m
Descend 107 m

Explore Rome in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Rome

Sight 1: Chiesa San Tommaso Moro

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The Church of San Tommaso Moro is a church in Rome, in the Tiburtino district, in Via dei Marrucini.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Tommaso Moro (IT)

699 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Sepolcro di Largo Talamo

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The Sepulchre of Largo Talamo is located in Largo Eduardo Talamo in the San Lorenzo area of Rome.

Wikipedia: Sepolcro di largo Talamo (IT)

888 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di Santa Bibiana

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Santa Bibiana is a small Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in Rome devoted to Saint Bibiana. The church façade was designed and built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who also produced a sculpture of the saint holding the palm leaf of martyrs.

Wikipedia: Santa Bibiana (EN)

701 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 4: Ninfeo di Alessandro Severo

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Ninfeo di Alessandro Severo

The Nymphaeum of Alexander Severus, a monument better known as the "Trophies of Marius", is a fountain of ancient Rome, the remains of which are preserved in the northern corner of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in the Esquiline district.

Wikipedia: Ninfeo di Alessandro (IT)

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Porta Magica

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The Alchemical Door, also known as the Alchemy Gate or Magic Portal, is a monument built between 1678 and 1680 by Massimiliano Palombara, marquis of Pietraforte, in his residence, the villa Palombara, which was located on the Esquiline Hill, near Piazza Vittorio, in Rome. This is the only one of five former gates of the villa that remains; there was a lost door on the opposite side dating them to 1680 and four other lost inscriptions on the walls of the mansion inside the villa.

Wikipedia: Porta Alchemica (EN)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Sant'Eusebio all'Esquilino

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Sant'Eusebio is a titular church in Rome, devoted to Saint Eusebius of Rome, a 4th-century martyr, and built in the Esquilino rione. One of the oldest churches in Rome, it is a titular church and the station church for the Friday after the fourth Sunday in Lent.

Wikipedia: Sant'Eusebio (EN)

266 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Santi Vito e Modesto

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Santi Vito e Modesto

Santi Vito e Modesto is a Roman Catholic church, and appears to have two facades, a 20th-century marble facade on Via Carlo Alberto, but a rustic brick older entrance, in reality the apse, on the Via San Vito in the Rione Esquilino of Rome, Italy. It has also been called Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia. It is located in the Rione Esquilino, adjacent to the Servian Wall, near the former Monastery of the Viperesche.

Wikipedia: Santi Vito e Modesto, Rome (EN), Website

97 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Oratorio di Santa Maria Immacolata della Concezione

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The Oratory of Santa Maria Immacolata della Concezione is a church in Rome, in the Esquilino district, in Via di San Vito.

Wikipedia: Oratorio di Santa Maria Immacolata della Concezione (IT)

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa di Sant'Alfonso dei Liguori

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The Church of Saint Alphonus of Liguori is a rectory church located on the Via Merulana on the Esquiline Hill of central Rome's Vth prefecture, Italy, and a titular church for a Cardinal-priest under the name Santissimo Redentore e Sant'Alfonso in Via Merulana.

Wikipedia: St. Alphonsus Liguori Church, Rome (EN)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Basilica di San Martino ai Monti

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San Martino ai Monti, officially known as Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti, is a minor basilica in Rome, Italy, in the Rione Monti neighbourhood. It is located near the edge of the Parco del Colle Oppio, near the corner of Via Equizia and Viale del Monte Oppio, about five to six blocks south of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Wikipedia: San Martino ai Monti (EN), Website

346 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Basilica di Santa Prassede

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The Basilica of Saint Praxedes, commonly known in Italian as Santa Prassede, is an early medieval titular church and minor basilica located near the papal basilica of Saint Mary Major, on Via di Santa Prassede, 9/a in rione Monti of Rome, Italy. The current Cardinal Priest of Titulus Sancta Praxedis is Paul Poupard.

Wikipedia: Santa Prassede (EN), Website

298 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Obelisco Esquilino

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Obelisco Esquilino

The Esquiline Obelisk is one of the thirteen ancient obelisks of Rome, located in Piazza dell'Esquilino, behind the apse of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, the center of the Esquiline district from which it takes its name.

Wikipedia: Obelisco Esquilino (IT)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Basilica of Saint Mary Major

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The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, or church of Santa Maria Maggiore, is a Major papal basilica as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the largest Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Maggiore (EN), Website

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Fontana di piazza Santa Maria Maggiore

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The fountain of Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore is located in Rome, at the foot of the column erected in the square in front of the homonymous basilica.

Wikipedia: Fontana di piazza Santa Maria Maggiore (IT)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate all'Esquilino

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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate all'Esquilino

Sant'Antonio abate all’Esquilino is a church in Rome, located near the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on via Carlo Alberto in the Esquilino district.

Wikipedia: Sant'Antonio Abate all'Esquilino (EN)

383 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Mura Serviane

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The Servian Wall is an ancient Roman defensive barrier constructed around the city of Rome in the early 4th century BC. The wall was built of volcanic tuff and was up to 10 m (33 ft) in height in places, 3.6 m (12 ft) wide at its base, 11 km (6.8 mi) long, and is believed to have had 16 main gates, of which only one or two have survived, and enclosed a total area of 246 hectares. In the 3rd century AD it was superseded by the construction of the larger Aurelian Walls as the city of Rome grew beyond the boundary of the Servian Wall.

Wikipedia: Servian Wall (EN)

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