Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Rome, Italy
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Experience Rome in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in RomeSight 1: Museo di Storia della Medicina
The Museum of the History of Medicine of La Sapienza University of Rome, founded by Adalberto Pazzini in 1938, is located in Viale dell'Università in Rome and is part of the museums of the La Sapienza Museum Complex. The museum preserves a rich collection of objects, mostly original, which allow us to reconstruct the evolution of medical knowledge and practices from prehistory to the genomic revolution.
Sight 2: Chiesa della Divina Sapienza
The Church of Divine Wisdom is a church in Rome, in the Tiburtino district, in Piazzale Aldo Moro, within the University City of Rome.
Sight 3: Chiesa San Tommaso Moro
The Church of San Tommaso Moro is a church in Rome, in the Tiburtino district, in Via dei Marrucini.
Sight 4: Porta San Lorenzo
Porta Tiburtina or Porta San Lorenzo is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy, through which the Via Tiburtina exits the city.
Sight 5: 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.
Sight 6: Arco di Gallieno
The Arch of Gallienus is a name given to the Porta Esquilina, an ancient Roman arch in the Servian Wall of Rome. It was here that the ancient Roman roads Via Labicana and Via Tiburtina started.
Sight 7: Chiesa di Sant'Alfonso dei Liguori
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.
Sight 8: Oratorio di Santa Maria Immacolata della Concezione
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)
Sight 9: 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. It is used by the Russian Greek Catholic Church.
Sight 10: Fontana di piazza Santa Maria Maggiore
The fountain in Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore is located in Rome, at the foot of the column erected in the square in front of the basilica of the same name.
Sight 11: Basilica di Santa Prassede
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, rione Monti in Rome, Italy. The current Cardinal Priest of Titulus Sancta Praxedis is Paul Poupard.
Sight 12: Basilica of Saint Mary Major
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.
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: Chiesa del Bambin Gesù a via Urbana
The Church of the Infant Jesus on the Esquiline is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy, in the Monti district, in Via Urbana.
Sight 15: Basilica di Santa Pudenziana al Viminale
Santa Pudenziana is a church of Rome, a basilica built in the 4th century and dedicated to Saint Pudentiana, sister of Praxedes and daughter of Pudens. It is one of the national churches in Rome, associated with Filipinos.
Sight 16: Museo storico della fisica Enrico Fermi
The Historical Museum of Physics and Center for Studies and Research "Enrico Fermi" is a research body supervised by the Ministry of University and Research, which promotes interdisciplinary scientific research and collects the scientific inheritance of the Royal Institute of Physics of the University From Rome. It is located in the historic building at the number 89 in via Panisperna in Rome, where in 1934 Enrico Fermi and its students made the important discovery of the role of slow neutrons in nuclear fission. Currently access to the Cref takes place through the Ministry of the Interior and is open only for visitors who are recorded at the Secretariat of the Body. The Cref was established by law 15 March 1999, n. 62 voted unanimously by the entire Italian parliament. The goal is to collect the legacy of the boys in via Panisperna and to create an interdisciplinary pole in which to develop scientific research. Therefore the mission of the institution is twofold: on the one hand, establish a historical museum of physics to transmit the legacy of Enrico Fermi and his group and on the other to develop his own line of original research with interdisciplinary characteristics that start from field of complex systems.
Wikipedia: Museo storico della fisica e Centro di studi e ricerche "Enrico Fermi" (IT), Website
Sight 17: Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Fonte
Santi Ippolito e Lorenzo in Fonte, better known as San Lorenzo in Fonte, is a Catholic church in Rome (Italy), Rione Monti, on Via Urbana.
Sight 18: San Bernardino in Panisperna
San Bernardino in Panisperna or Panispermia or San Bernardino ai Monti or San Bernardino da Siena ai Monti is a small Roman Catholic church in Rome. It is found across from the church of Sant'Agata dei Goti on via Panisperna in the Rione Monti.
Sight 19: St. Paul's Within the Walls
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.
Sight 20: Chiesa dei Santi Vitale e Compagni Martiri in Fovea
The early Christian imperial basilica of the Saints Martyrs Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio and Protasio known more commonly as the basilica of San Vitale and Compagni Martiri in Fovea or more simply as San Vitale al Quirinale. It is the oldest Catholic place of worship in the historic center of Rome, located in via Nazionale. The imperial basilica of San Vitale al Quirinale, built under the pontificate of Pope Siricius after 386 and consecrated and richly decorated by Pope Innocent in 402 is the first public Christian basilica with a baptistery not founded on pre-existing pagan temples, mentioned in the Liber pontificalis, built by the Emperor Theodosius at the behest of Saint Ambrose of Milan, in honor of the miraculous discovery of the bodies of martyrs Gervasius and Protasius in Milan. It is the most frescoed basilica in Rome.
Sight 21: Villa Aldobrandini
Villa Aldobrandini is located on the end of the Quirinal Hill called Collis Latiaris by the ancient Romans and was located on the route of the road called Alta Semita, which gave its name to the VI Regio Augustea, near the Baths of Constantine, overlooking the Trajan's Markets and the Magnanapoli climb.
Sight 22: Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini
Palazzo Valentini is a palazzo in central Rome, Italy, not far from Piazza Venezia. Since 1873 it has been the base of the provincial and prefectural administration of Rome.
Sight 23: Sepolcro di Gaio Poplicio Bibulo
The tomb of Gaius Publicius Bibulus is a funerary monument located on the route of the ancient Via Lata with the main façade facing southwest. The tomb stood on one side of the Piazza Macel de' Corvi, which disappeared in 1902. Today it is located a few meters from the left side of the Vittoriano. The monument has been dated to the beginning of the first century BC.
Sight 24: talking statue Madama Lucrezia
Madama Lucrezia is one of the six "talking statues" of Rome. Pasquinades — irreverent satires poking fun at public figures — were posted beside each of the statues from the 16th century onwards, written as if spoken by the statue, largely in answer to the verses posted at the sculpture called "Pasquino" Madama Lucrezia was the only female "talking statue", and was the subject of competing verses by Pasquino and Marforio.
Sight 25: Palazzo Venezia
The Palazzo Venezia or Palazzo Barbo, formerly Palace of Saint Mark, is a large early Renaissance palace in central Rome, Italy, situated to the north of the Capitoline Hill. Today the property of the Republic of Italy it houses the National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia. The main (eastern) facade measures 77 metres in length, with a height of about 31 metres. The north wing, containing the "Cibo Apartment", extending westwards, measures 122 metres in length. It covers an area of 1.2 hectares and encloses two gardens and the Basilica of Saint Mark. It was built in the present form during the 1450s by Cardinal Pietro Barbo (1417-1471), titular holder of the Basilica of Saint Mark, who from 1464 ruled as Pope Paul II. Barbo, a Venetian by birth as was customary for cardinals of the Basilica of Saint Mark, lived there even as pope and amassed there a great collection of art and antiquities. During the first half of the 20th century it became the residence and headquarters of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who made notable orations from its balcony to huge crowds filling the Piazza Venezia.
Sight 26: Basilica di San Marco
San Marco is a minor basilica in Rome dedicated to Saint Mark the Evangelist located in the small Piazza di San Marco adjoining Piazza Venezia. It was first built in 336 by Pope Mark, whose remains are in an urn located below the main altar. The basilica is the national church of Venice in Rome.
Sight 27: Chiesa del Gesù
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, 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 central Europe and then in the Portuguese colonies. 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.
Sight 28: Tempio delle Ninfe
The Temple of the Nymphs was a temple in ancient Rome dedicated to the Nymphs, evidenced in several sources and generally identified with the remains on what is now via delle Botteghe Oscure.
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