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.
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.
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
131 Viale delle Belle Arti, II Municipio, Rome, 00197, Italy
Everyone comes to Rome for ancient art and Renaissance masterpieces, which means almost nobody visits the national gallery of modern and contemporary art, and that is a mistake.
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.
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.
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.
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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