Rome: Not Just Vatican Museums…
25/08/2008 12:05
on: Travel Hub
Travel guide to Rome (Italy) presenting the best places to visit in this beautiful city, rich in masterpieces and architectural jewels.
Piazza della Repubblica
The exedra of the great Imperial baths is the perspective backdrop to the 19th century and modern Rome
Via dei Condotti
The greatest nae in style and fashion, the msot beautiful shops and the most imitated window displays. The central arter of commercial quarter of Rome, and a meeting place for shopping.
Piazza Navona
From the Stadium of the Emperor Domiziano to the drawing room of Baroque Rome, passing on to the sacrifice of the young martyr Agnese, celebrated in thesplendid church that faces the piazza.
Foro Traiano and Colonna Traiana
The urban and architectural expansion of an Emperor and his architecture to celebrate the greatness of the Empire in Rome and its power in the world. A procession of masterpieces which recount the history of Roman civilization and its grade of artistic perfection.
Colosseo
The Flavian Amphiteatre, the majestic cibstruction of Antiquity, created as place of enjoyment for the people, who had free entry. A fantastic scenario which opened up on the inside, among marble bench seats, golden statues, and bloody battles in the arena.
Arco di Costantino
When Christianity become the official religion of the Roman Emperor by the will of Costantino, this triumphal arch was erected, the last example of an architecture destined to die togheter with the remains of the pagan age.
Teatro Marcello
The little Colosseum as it has been defined, is in the reality a theatre and thus has a semicircular plan with respect to the oval of the Flavian Amphitheatre. Its history narrates private and public events, from antiquity to mediaeval times.
Sinagoga
The Israelite Temple is the place of cult and memory, with its connected museum. An instructive and fascinating visit, under the guide of the personnel of the museum.
Ponte Sant’Angelo
A walkway of angels which look down as you walk across the bridge, the memory of a past time in which the castle was a place of imprisonment and suffering.
Castel Sant’Angelo
A perfect structure in its form and function, From the tomb of the Emperor Adriano to the Papal prison, rich in splendid pictoresque decorations and intersting museum relics.
Vatican Museums
The most important artistic collection in the city, rich with masterpieces, and of surprising architectural beauty. At the end of the museum tour there’s the Sistine Chapel, the traditional place of the Papal election, the palatine chapel, and the theater of the Vatican palaces. The masterpiece of Michelangelo as painter.
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