Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Rome, Italy

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 7 km
Ascend 263 m
Descend 199 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 di Santo Spirito in Sassia

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Church of the Holy Spirit in the Saxon District is a 12th-century titular church in Rome, Italy. It is in Borgo Santo Spirito, a street which got its name from the church, placed in the southern part of Rione Borgo. The current holder of the titulus is Cardinal-Deacon Dominique Mamberti. It has been the official sanctuary of Divine Mercy since 1994.

Wikipedia: Santo Spirito in Sassia (EN)

297 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Magno

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Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Magno

The Church of Saints Michael and Magnus is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel and the Bishop Saint Magnus of Anagni. It lies on the northern slope of the Palazzolo hill, in Rione Borgo, near the Vatican, and is the national church dedicated to the Netherlands. It is also known as the "Church of the Frisians". In 1989, the church was granted to the Dutch community in Rome. A 19th century source calls the church Santi Michele e Magno in Sassia, due to a location on a Vico dei Sassoni.

Wikipedia: Santi Michele e Magno, Rome (EN), Website

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Vatican Obelisk

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The Vatican Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk, one of the thirteen ancient obelisks of Rome, located in St. Peter's Square, in Vatican City. It is the only ancient obelisk in Rome that has never fallen.

Wikipedia: Vatican obelisk (EN)

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: St. Pellegrino Gate

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St. Pellegrino Gate

Porta San Pellegrino is a gate in the outer wall of Vatican City. It is located beside Bernini's Colonnade and the small Vatican post; it is also known as Porta Viridaria. The gate was rebuilt by Pope Alexander VI in 1492 and his arms are at the top of the gate. The gate is little used.

Wikipedia: Porta San Pellegrino (EN)

42 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Saints Martin and Sebastian of the Swiss

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The Church of Saints Martin and Sebastian of the Swiss is a Roman Catholic oratory in Vatican City. The church was built by Pope Pius V in 1568 to serve as a private chapel for the Pontifical Swiss Guards, whose barracks are located next to Porta San Pellegrino, close to the Apostolic Palace. It is considered the national church of Switzerland in Rome.

Wikipedia: Santi Martino e Sebastiano degli Svizzeri (EN)

455 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Pauline Chapel

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Pauline Chapel

The Cappella Paolina is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. It is separated from the Sistine Chapel by the Sala Regia. It is not on any of the regular tourist itineraries.

Wikipedia: Cappella Paolina (EN)

24 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Stanze di Raffaello

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Stanze di Raffaello

The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome.

Wikipedia: Raphael Rooms (EN)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Saint Peter's Basilica

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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. It was initially planned in the 15th century by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the ageing Old St. Peter's Basilica, which was built in the fourth century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.

Wikipedia: St. Peter's Basilica (EN), Website

10 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Vatican City

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State, is a landlocked independent country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy. It became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity under international law, which maintains the city-state's temporal power and governance, diplomatic, and spiritual independence.

Wikipedia: Vatican City (EN)

616 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: Paul VI Audience Hall

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The Paul VI Audience Hall, also known as the Hall of the Pontifical Audiences, is a building in Rome named for Pope Paul VI with a seating capacity of 6,300, designed in reinforced concrete by the Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi and completed in 1971. It was constructed on land donated by the Knights of Columbus.

Wikipedia: Paul VI Audience Hall (EN)

501 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Saint Stephen of the Ethiopians

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Saint Stephen of the Abyssinians is an Eastern Catholic church located in Vatican City. The church dedicated to Stephen the Protomartyr is the national church of Ethiopia. The liturgy is celebrated according to the Alexandrian rite of the Ethiopian Catholic Church. It is one of the only standing structures in the Vatican to survive the destruction of Old St. Peter's Basilica (c. 1505), and thus it is the oldest surviving church in Vatican City.

Wikipedia: Santo Stefano degli Abissini (EN)

27 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: St Mary's Church

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The Church of Mary, Mother of the Family is a Catholic place of worship located within Vatican City, in Largo San Matteo, in the Vatican Gardens, adjacent to the Governorate Palace. Note that the exact name of the Church is "Mary, Mother of the Family". The wording "Santa Maria Regina della Famiglia" is not exactly correct.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Regina della Famiglia (IT)

1376 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 13: Santa Maria delle Grazie al Trionfale

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Santa Maria delle Grazie al Trionfale

The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie al Trionfale is a church in Rome, in the Trionfale district, in Piazza Santa Maria delle Grazie.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria delle Grazie a Via Trionfale (EN), Website

1589 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di San Giuseppe Cottolengo

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The church of San Giuseppe Cottolengo is a parish church in Rome, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuseppe Cottolengo (Roma) (IT)

1556 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes

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Chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes

Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in Rome, dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea (EN)

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