The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)


Built under Emperor Aurelian in the third century, this door was also known as Porta Flaminia because the Via Flaminia came out from it and still does.
The Nero aqueduct, also known as the "Celimontano Aqueduct", winds its arches along a path that from Piazza di Porta Maggiore passes through via Statilia reaching the Celio
[...]The Felice aqueduct owes its name to Pope Sixtus V - Felice Peretti - who built it in the 16th century and runs along a path that, from Via Prenestina, arrives at
[...]The aqueduct was built at the behest of the Emperor Trajan in 109 AD, conveying the water from the springs near Vicarello on Lake Bracciano, to supply Trastevere,
[...]Besides the archeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, the Aurelian Walls arrive to and include the ruins of the Amphitheater Castrense, one of the most important an
[...]Located inside Rione XI - Sant'Angelo, the Jewish Ghetto of Rome is one of the hidden tr
[...]The Severian Arches are located on the outermost part of the Palatine, opposite the Circus Maximus.
Despite its name, the Arcus Argentariorum is a architraved gate erected in 204 AD on the ancient urban road of the vicus Jugarium, where the street entered the For
[...]The Arch of Constantine is the largest of the three triumphal arches still preserved in Rome, about 25 meters high, located along the road usually used by the triumphs, in the stre
[...]The arch of Dolabella is a door of the Servian Walls, rebuilt by Augustus and identifiable with the Porta Caelimontana.
Nestled up against the church of Santi Vito e Modesto, the arch marks the exact spot w
[...]It was the last monumental building erected in the eastern part of the Forum Boarium, a vast area that
[...]The Imperial Fora are a monumental architectural complex, formed by a series of buildings and monumental squares, the centre of the political activity of ancient Rome, built in a p
[...]The archaeological area of the Tomb of the Scipios is located along the urban stretch of the ancient Via Appia, within the Aurelian Walls, before the city gate, Porta S. Sebastiano.
A few steps from the Trevi Fountain, over nine meters below today’s street level, the archaeologica
[...]The archaeological area of the city of Gabii is located along the ancient via Prenestina, about 20 kilometers from Rome, near the volcanic lake of Castiglione, n
[...]The archaeological area of Settecamini, discovered in the 1950s, is located halfway between Rome and Tivoli, at the intersection of the eighth mile of via Tiburtina
[...]The remains of the ancient Etruscan town of Veio are located near the Borgo di Isola Farnese, just outside the Rome Ring Road, on a plateau lapped by two rivers, t
[...]Hidden about 4.50 meters from the street level, below the lively and elegant Piazza Navona, is one of the most
[...]It is one of the most important archaeological sites of the city, with the remains of four temples from the Republican age ranging from the 4th century to the 2nd
[...]Strolling around the Foro Olitorio (opposite the contemporary Palazzo dell'Anagrafe), you can admire, also from the outside, the archaeological area known as the Sacred Are
[...]If you happen to be going down Via Merulana from the Basilica of St.
The Aula Isiaca is an underground room of Augustus' house found under the basilica of the Domus Flavia on the Palatine hill.
The basilica stands along via Portuense and was built at the behest of Pope Damasus - in the 4th century AD - within the catacombs of Generosa where the martyrs
Those of you who have already been to the Capitoline Museums will certainly have admired the fr
[...]This Basilica was built in 324, at the behest of Constance daughter of the emperor Constantine, above the ruins of a cemetery and catacombs that housed the remains of the Saint.