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The Pantheon of Agrippa, also known as the Roman Pantheon, is one of the architectural masterpieces of the Italian capital. It is the best preserved building of ancient Rome. Completed in 126 AD, it was a Roman temple with a striking oculus that is the main source of natural light for the building.
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Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name.
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Piazza Navona, in ancient Rome, was the Stadium of Domitian, which was built by Emperor Domitian in 85 and restored by Alexander Severus in the 3rd century. It was 265 meters long, 106 meters wide and could accommodate 30,000 spectators
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The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762[1] and several others. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide,[2] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.
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Between the lively Piazza Navona and the aristocratic Piazza Farnese, where, since 1874, the palace of the same name is the seat of the French Embassy, stands one of the many treasures of the city, a place which, with its picturesque and characteristic market, represents the typical scenario of old Rome.
Campo de' Fiori is one of the Capital's most particular and loved areas. It is the ideal context for a pleasant walk among its historic wooden stalls where you can buy, always fresh flowers, fruit, meat, and fish, Campo de' Fiori, however, also has a dark side: in the square, you could witness spectacular executions, among which the impressive one of the monk and philosopher Giordano Bruno, who, accused of heresy, was burned alive on 17 February 1600
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The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) in Rome, Italy, climb a steep slope between Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church, at the top. The monumental stairway of 135 steps[1] is linked with the Trinità dei Monti church, under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, at the top of the steps and the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See in the Palazzo Monaldeschi at the bottom of the steps. The stairway was designed by the architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi.
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The pyramid of Cestius is an ancient Roman pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built in the style of the Nubian pyramids as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation. It stands at a fork between two ancient roads, the Via Ostiensis and another road that ran west to the Tiber along the approximate line of the modern Via Marmorata. Due to its incorporation into the city's fortifications, it is today one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome.
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Located between Via del Corso and Via dei Fori Imperiali, Piazza Venezia derives its shape from the remaking of the area, which took place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, for the construction of the Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II.
Also known as Altare della Patria, the huge monument was started in 1885 by Giuseppe Sacconi and finished by Gaetano Koch, Manfredo Manfredi and Pio Piacentini in 1911. Its architectural structure represents an ideal ascending path that, through stairways and terraces enriched by sculptural groups and bas-reliefs, rises up to the imposing colonnaded portico surmounted by bronze chariots, allegories of the Unity of the Homeland and Freedom.
In 1921, in the crypt designed by Armando Brasini, the body of the Unknown Soldier was buried.
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