Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Rome, Italy

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 6.3 km
Ascend 108 m
Descend 93 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: Tombs of Via Latina

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Tombs of Via Latina keepwaddling1 Geoff Wong / CC BY 2.0

The Tombs of the Via Latina are Roman tombs, mainly from the 2nd century AD, that are found along a short stretch of the Via Latina, an ancient Roman road close to Rome, Italy. They are now part of an archaeological park and can be visited.

Wikipedia: Tombs of Via Latina (EN)

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Sepolcro dei Corneli o Barberini

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Sepolcro dei Corneli o Barberini keepwaddling1 Geoff Wong / CC BY 2.0

The Tombs of the Via Latina are Roman tombs, mainly from the 2nd century AD, that are found along a short stretch of the Via Latina, an ancient Roman road close to Rome, Italy. They are now part of an archaeological park and can be visited.

Wikipedia: Tombs of Via Latina (EN)

1263 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 3: Basilica di Santo Stefano

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Basilica di Santo Stefano

The Basilica of Santo Stefano in Via Latina was a Christian basilica of the 5th century, erected on the site of a suburban villa at the third mile of the Via Latina, in front of the walls of the city of Rome, of which today only the foundations and few columns remain.

Wikipedia: Basilica di Santo Stefano in via Latina (IT)

1303 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 4: Colombario Costantiniano

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The so-called Constantinian Colombary is a temple tomb in the regional park of the Ancient Appia, in Rome.

Wikipedia: Colombario costantiniano (IT)

1058 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 5: Villa of Maxentius

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Villa of Maxentius

The Villa of Maxentius is an imperial villa in Rome, built by the Roman emperor Maxentius. The complex is located between the second and third miles of the ancient Appian Way, and consists of three main buildings: the palace, the circus of Maxentius and the dynastic mausoleum, designed in an inseparable architectural unit to honor Maxentius.

Wikipedia: Villa of Maxentius (EN), Website

655 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura

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San Sebastiano fuori le mura, or San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas, is a minor basilica in Rome, Central Italy. Up to the Great Jubilee of 2000, San Sebastiano was one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, and many pilgrims still favour the traditional list.

Wikipedia: San Sebastiano fuori le mura (EN)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Catacombe di San Sebastiano

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Catacombe di San Sebastiano Patrick Denker on Flickr / CC BY 2.0

The Catacombs of San Sebastiano are a hypogeum cemetery in Rome, Italy, rising along Via Appia Antica, in the Ardeatino Quarter. It is one of the very few Christian burial places that has always been accessible. The first of the former four floors is now almost completely destroyed.

Wikipedia: Catacombs of San Sebastiano (EN), Website

608 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Mausoleum of Romulus

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The Mausoleum of Maxentius was part of a large complex on the Appian Way in Rome that included a palace and a chariot racing circus, constructed by the Emperor Maxentius. The large circular tomb was built by Maxentius in the early 4th century, probably with himself in mind and as a family tomb, but when his young son Valerius Romulus died he was buried there. After extensive renovation the mausoleum was reopened to the public in 2014.

Wikipedia: Mausoleum of Maxentius (EN)

534 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Rovine Chiesa di San Nicola a Capo di Bove

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The church of San Nicola a Capo di Bove is a deconsecrated church in Rome, in the Ardeatino district, on the ancient Appian Way, in front of the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella. Of it today only some ruins remain, i.e. the external structure with the apse, but without the roof.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Nicola a Capo di Bove (IT)

633 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: Capo di Bove

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Capo di Bove is an archaeological site on the Appian Way on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. It contains the thermal baths of a vast property owned in the 2nd century AD by Herodes Atticus and his wife Annia Regilla.

Wikipedia: Capo di Bove (EN)

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