Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #16 in Rome, Italy

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 14 km
Ascend 384 m
Descend 408 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: Basilica di San Pancrazio

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Basilica di San Pancrazio

The basilica of San Pancrazio is a Roman Catholic ancient basilica and titular church founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th century in Rome, Italy. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum. It covers the Catacomb of San Pancrazio.

Wikipedia: San Pancrazio (EN)

766 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: Sant’Antonio Maria Zaccaria

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The church of Sant'Antonio Maria Zaccaria is a church in Rome, in the Trastevere district, located in via Ulisse Seni, 1.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Maria Zaccaria (Roma) (IT)

1315 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 3: San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi

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San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi is a Roman Catholic church on via Anicia in the Trastevere district of Rome. It is the regional church for Genoa.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi (EN)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa dei Santi Maria e Gallicano

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Santi Maria e Gallicano is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, in the district of Trastevere, along via di S. Gallicano, 2.

Wikipedia: Santi Maria e Gallicano (EN)

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: San Crisogono

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San Crisogono is a church in Rome dedicated to the martyr Saint Chrysogonus. It was one of the tituli, the first parish churches of Rome, and was probably built in the 4th century under Pope Sylvester I (314–335).

Wikipedia: San Crisogono, Rome (EN)

325 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di San Callisto

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Chiesa di San Callisto

San Callisto is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, Italy, built over the site of Pope Callixtus I's martyrdom.

Wikipedia: San Callisto (EN)

1108 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Villa Lante

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The church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Villa Lante is a church in Rome, in the Trastevere district, in via San Francesco di Sales, 18, inside Villa Lante.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Villa Lante (IT)

1187 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 8: Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio dei Bolognesi

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Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio dei Bolognesi

Santi Giovanni e Petronio dei Bolognesi is a Roman Catholic church in central Rome, Italy. It is named after the Saints John the Evangelist and Petronius, who are patrons of the city of Bologna. This church was made the "national church" of the Bolognese in Rome in 1581, by order of Pope Gregory XIII. It is located in the Rione of Regola, on Via del Mascherone, across the street and just south of the Gardens behind the Palazzo Farnese. It is today the "regional church" of Emilia-Romagna.

Wikipedia: Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio (EN)

276 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini ai Catinari

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The Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini is a Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Pettinari #36 In the rione of Regola of central Rome, Italy. It stands a block away from the Palazzo Spada on Via Capo di Ferro, while a few blocks away on the Via dei Pettinari stands the Ponte Sisto.

Wikipedia: Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, Rome (EN), Website

293 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari

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San Carlo ai Catinari, also called Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari, is an early-Baroque style church in Rome, Italy. It is located on Piazza Benedetto Cairoli, 117 just off the corner of Via Arenula and Via dei Falegnami, a few blocks south of the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle.

Wikipedia: San Carlo ai Catinari (EN)

1013 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 11: Temples of the Sacred Area of S. Omobono

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Temples of the Sacred Area of S. Omobono

The Sant'Omobono Area is an archaeological site in Rome next to the church of Sant'Omobono, at the junction of via L. Petroselli and the Vico Jugario at the foot of the Campidoglio. It was discovered in 1937 and contains much important evidence for archaic and republican Rome. It contains altars and the sites of the temple of Fortuna and the temple of Mater Matuta. An earlier archaic-period temple underlies these two, dating itself to the early 6th century BCE, making it the oldest known temple remains in Rome.

Wikipedia: Sant'Omobono Area (EN)

787 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 12: Santa Maria in Aracoeli

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The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Altar in Heaven is a titular basilica in Rome, located on the highest summit of the Campidoglio. It is still the designated church of the city council of Rome, which uses the ancient title of Senatus Populusque Romanus. The present cardinal priest of the Titulus Sanctae Mariae de Aracoeli is Salvatore De Giorgi.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria in Ara Coeli (EN)

624 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa del Gesù

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The Church of the Gesù is the mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Catholic religious order. Officially named Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina, its façade is "the first truly baroque façade", introducing the baroque style into architecture. The church served as a model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in the Americas. Its paintings in the nave, crossing, and side chapels became models for Jesuit churches throughout Italy and Europe, as well as those of other orders. The Church of the Gesù is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome.

Wikipedia: Church of the Gesù (EN)

621 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: Santi Bartolomeo e Alessandro a Piazza Colonna

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Santi Bartolomeo ed Alessandro dei Bergamaschi is a little church in Piazza Colonna in Rome, Italy, next to Palazzo Wedekind. Originally it was named Santa Maria della Pietà, from the high relief over the door. The present Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome is in Vatican City.

Wikipedia: Santi Bartolomeo ed Alessandro dei Bergamaschi (EN)

970 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di San Silvestro al Quirinale

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Chiesa di San Silvestro al Quirinale

San Silvestro al Quirinale is a historic church in central Rome, Italy. It is located near Via XXIV Maggio corner with Via Mazzarino, a few blocks south of the Piazza del Quirinale.

Wikipedia: San Silvestro al Quirinale (EN)

905 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 16: St. Paul's Within the Walls

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St. Paul's Within the Walls, also known as the American Church in Rome, is a church of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe on Via Nazionale in Castro Pretorio, Rome. It was the first Protestant church to be built in Rome. Designed by English architect George Edmund Street in Gothic Revival style, it was built in polychrome brick and stone, and completed in 1880.

Wikipedia: St. Paul's Within the Walls (EN)

531 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa del Bambin Gesù a via Urbana

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Chiesa del Bambin Gesù a via Urbana Pippo-b / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Church of the Infant Jesus on the Esquiline is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy, in the Monti district, in Via Urbana.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Gesù Bambino all'Esquilino (IT)

552 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa dei Santi Gioacchino e Anna ai Monti

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Santi Gioacchino ed Anna ai Monti is a church on the Via Monte Polacco in Rome.

Wikipedia: Santi Gioacchino e Anna ai Monti (EN)

624 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: 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

1854 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 20: 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)

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