15 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Rome
15 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore, 00100 Roma
Every August fifth, this basilica stages one of Rome's most theatrical annual events: artificial white petals drift down from the ceiling during Mass to commemorate the miraculous snowfall of 358 AD.
Baths of Caracalla
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 52, 00153 Roma
These were not baths.
Borghese Gallery
5 Piazzale Scipione Borghese, II Municipio, Rome, 00197, Italy
Cardinal Scipione Borghese was a collector the way a black hole is a collector — everything in the vicinity ended up in his possession, whether it wanted to or not.
Capitoline Museums
1 Piazza del Campidoglio, I Municipio, Rome, 00186, Italy
This is the oldest public museum in the world.
Castel Sant'Angelo
50 Lungotevere Castello, XVII Municipio, Rome, 00193, Italy
This building has had more career changes than any structure in Rome.
Colosseum
1 Piazza del Colosseo, I Municipio, Rome, 00184, Italy
Here is a number that should stop you in your tracks: fifty thousand.
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
305 Via del Corso, I Municipio, Rome, 00186, Italy
There is a painting in this palace that terrified the man it depicts.
Pantheon
I Municipio, Rome, Italy
The dome above your head is still, after nearly nineteen hundred years, the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built.
Piazza del Popolo
Piazza del Popolo, I Municipio, Rome, 00187, Italy
For centuries, this was the first thing visitors saw when they arrived in Rome.
Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona, I Municipio, Rome, 00186, Italy
The reason this piazza is shaped like a racetrack is that it was a racetrack.
Sistine Chapel
Viale Vaticano, XVII Municipio, Rome, 00192, Italy
Michelangelo did not want this job.
Spanish Steps
I Municipio, Rome, Italy
The name is a lie, or at least a misdirection.
St. Peter's Basilica
120 Via Pietro Romani, XIII Municipio, Rome, 00124, Italy
This is the largest church in the world, and the Vatican will not let you forget it.
Trevi Fountain
Piazza di Trevi, I Municipio, Rome, 00187, Italy
About three thousand euros in coins are thrown into this fountain every single day.
Vatican Museums
Viale Vaticano, XVIII Municipio, Rome, 00165, Italy
The Vatican Museums contain roughly seventy thousand works of art, of which about twenty thousand are on display at any given time.
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