To know (and visit) about Rome
Tours, guided visits, Wikipedia: internet is full of information about Rome and its most touristic places. In this session, however, you can find some suggestions about uncommon destinations that could surprise you with their astonishing beauty. A constant upgraded list of the most hidden beauties in Rome!
Il buco della serratura sull’Aventino
The door of the villa of the Sovereing Military Order of Malta offers the most famous sight of Saint Peter Cathedral. A show that raises unmatched emotions: glancing Saint Peter in a wonderful perspective. It is not only a postcard; it is not only a beautiful image. It’s like you were stealing a moment of eternity.
La porta alchemica di Piazza Vittorio
In the city of the Christian Church, there are holy places even if they’re not at all religious. The Alchemic door, located in Villa Palombara on the Esquiline Hill is one of them: in this place you can experience a holy feeling (but not religious) that, through the centuries, makes us nearer to the marques who established that door of time!
La Cupola di San Pietro osservata da Via Piccolomini
In this road of Rome, staring at the Saint Peter Cupola, there is a special optical illusion: nearest you will walk and farther it will appear. Optical Magic, Architectural Magic or simply magic; this is the proper word to express the sensations you will feel by hanging around on Via Piccolomini. Just try: you won’t believe to your eyes!
I nasoni di Roma
“Nasoni” are not only drinking fountains, they are an historical institution. A cultural background that every Roman owns. Everyone, by drinking in those fountains that carry the water of the Ancient Aqueduct, will share an experience with millions of people, and will carry in their own hearts a little bit of Rome!
Il mercato di Campo dei Fiori
Colors, voices, dialects, fragrances: an unmatched show in the ‘eternal city’. The flower market is a not to miss appointment, a ritual of beauty and vivacity that repeats day after day its astonishing magic. A privileged perspective on Romans and their way of life.
La Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura
A wonderful sight! One of the four Papal Basilicas, the second for size after the Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City, a place where the majesty of the architecture joins the care for the details. The Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura is a place where you can only find beauty and rapture.
La Chiesa di San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Some places preserve a silent feeling even when they’re full of tourists. It could be for their beauty, it could be for the silence that everyone preserve in front of an astonishing sight. We don’t know. We only know that San Giovanni in Porta Latina is one of those places that guard a sense of marvel.
Le Terme di Caracalla
Seen by night, with lights and shadows that suggest ancient stories, or seen in the daylight, when they appear in their aesthetics and cultural majesty: Terme di Caracalla represent one of the most interesting places of Rome. It’s the right place where understand that History is much more than a book page.
Il Monte dei Cocci a Testaccio
By centuries, the ancient romans address this razz to every civilization after them. Il Monte dei Cocci a Testaccio – an artificial hill shaped by the fragments of the amphorae that were transported in the near fluvial port – looks like a challenge: We (the ancient romans) made beauty from our garbage… what about you?
L’Orologio ad acqua al Pincio
The watch, located on the Pincio terrace above Piazza del Popolo, looks like a small tower in the middle of a fountain, with a cast iron body that takes the form of tree trunks and a transparent casket in the center, below the dial, which shows how the whole hydraulic gimmick works… by water!
