Heart of Ancient Rome's Political & Social Life
Julius Caesar • Ancient Temples • Imperial Power
Explore → Get Early AccessCloses 1 hour before sunset
Including Palatine Hill
Includes Colosseum & Palatine
Multiple entrances available
The downtown of the ancient world — senate house, sacred temples, triumphal arches, and the rostra where Antony spoke over Caesar. It reads as rubble until it suddenly reads as a city; go with a map or a guide and it comes alive.
For a thousand years this valley was Rome's civic heart, from kings through republic to empire. Medieval Rome grazed cows here ('Campo Vaccino') and mined the marble; excavation only began in earnest in the 1800s.
The Curia's bronze doors are replicas — the originals hang at St. John Lateran, moved in 1660. And the black stone floor of the Lapis Niger covers what Romans themselves believed, 2,000 years ago, was the tomb of Romulus.
135 steps of 18th-century theater connecting Piazza di Spagna to Trinità dei Monti — Rome's grandest…
World's Greatest Art Collection & Sistine Chapel
Hadrian's mausoleum turned papal fortress — secret corridors, panoramic terraces, and two thousand years of reinvention.
The world's first covered shopping complex — a multi-level marvel of Roman engineering above the imperial…
Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in a square shaped by an ancient stadium — baroque…
The World's Largest Church & Heart of Catholicism
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