The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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The present Palazzo Pichi Manfroni Lovatti is a copy of the original building by Gerolamo Pichi demolished in 1881 for the construction of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.

It was built in 1450 on the ruins of Pompey's Theatre by Cardinal Francesco Condulmer, nephew of Pope Eugene IV Condulmer (1431-47).


Palazzo Maffei Marescotti is a vast palace, born as a noble palace, located in the Pigna district, on the corner between via dei Cestari and via della Pigna, adjacent to the Church of the Santissim
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Built at the beginning of the sixteenth century for the noble Calcagni family, it then passed to the Del Bene family, who were probably responsible for the painted façade on the Piazza Ricci side,
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The palace was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the Jacobilli family who, having exhausted their resources even before having finished it, sold the palace, in 1583, to
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Facing the Tiber, in Via della Lungara, stands this historic Renaissance palace, begun
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The Santacroce family owned several houses between the S. Angelo and Regola districts as early as the 15th century, including the palace where the Monte di Pietà was later established.

Aimed at combating usury and granting pawn credit with low interest rates, the Monte di Pietà institutional pawnbroker arrived later in Rome as compared to other cities in central
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The Palace was built towards the end of the 16th century.


This palace is one of the best examples of Roman civil architecture of the late 16th century; built on commission by Ottaviano Crescenzi to a design by Gia
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The Sora Palace was built in the 15th century by Urbano Fieschi, Count of Lavagna, and later enlarged by his brother Nicola.

Built at the behest of Cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro (1502-1559), the construction of Palazzo Spada started at the end of 1548, by the architect Bartolomeo Baronino
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A singular palace located in Via Capo le Case, in the Colonna district.

In the 17th century the Palazzo was home to nobles and high prelates, until it was purchased by Cardinal Tonti.

The dignified palace that today faces Via della Conciliazione was built in the early 16th century for the rich cardinal Adriano Castellesi da Corneto, who never li
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The palace, now the seat of the metropolitan city of Roma Capitale, was built in 1583-85 by Cardinal Bonelli on the area of the forum of Trajan, d
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Palazzo Verospi Vitelleschi, adjacent to the Bonaparte palace and separated from the Doria Pamphilj palace by Vicolo Doria, is an 1887 reconstruction by the architect Luigi Tedeschi of a palace bui
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The palace was built by the Caffarelli family in 1515 to a design by Lorenzo Lotto, a pupil of Raphael.


Located at the crossroads of via Sistina and via Gregoriana, close to the Spanish Steps, Palazzo Zuc
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“The most beautiful relic of ancient Rome, a temple so well preserved that it appears as the Romans must have seen it in their times,” so described it the French writer Stendhal in the 19th century
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Located in the Pietralata neighborhood in the northeast quadrant of the city, the park owes its name to the ol
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The Tuscolo Archaeological Cultural Park extends between the municipalities of Montecompatri, Monte Porzio, Frascati and Grottaferrata and represents the historical and cul
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The park occupies the northwestern sector of the Caelian hill, in a green area overlooking the
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The Colosseum Archaeological Park includes the extraordinary ancient complexes forming part of the central archaeological area, namely Colosseum, Roman For
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