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What to see in Rome on foot

50 sights worth the detour, all walkable, all offline.

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Rome is a city made for walking. This self-guided guide maps 50 of its sights worth the detour — landmarks, historic sites, museums and galleries and public art — the places locals point to and the tour buses skip, close enough to string into a single day on foot. Download the Rome pack in Voyage GO before you go and the whole route works offline: no roaming, no dead battery from a live map. Every monument, viewpoint and park you pass quietly fills your travel passport.

Landmarks6

  1. 1Quattro FontaneThe Quattro Fontane is an ensemble of four Late Renaissance fountains located at the intersection of Via delle Quattro Fontane and Via del Quirinale in Rome.
  2. 2Fontana dei LibriThe Fontana dei Libri is a fountain in Rome, Italy.
  3. 3Cannone di Mezzogiorno
  4. 4Colle PalatinoPalatino is an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
  5. 5Portone di Bronzo
  6. 6San Pietro dal Buco della serratura

Historic Sites24

  1. 7Porta MagicaThe Alchemical Door, also known as the Alchemy Gate or Magic Portal, is a monument built between 1678 and 1680 by Massimiliano Palombara, marquis of Pietraforte, in his residence, the villa Palombara, which was located on the Esquiline Hill, near Piazza Vittorio, in Rome.
  2. 8Obelisco Matteiano
  3. 9Statua "parlante" di PasquinoPasquino is the name used by Romans since the early modern period to describe a battered Hellenistic-style statue perhaps dating to the third century BC, which was unearthed in the Parione district of Rome in the fifteenth century.
  4. 10Porta MetroniaPorta Metronia is a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy.
  5. 11Porta San LorenzoPorta Tiburtina or Porta San Lorenzo is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy, through which the Via Tiburtina exits the city.
  6. 12Harry's BarHarry's Bar Rome is a historic bar and restaurant located on the Via Veneto in Rome, Italy.
  7. 13Fontanella per cani
  8. 14Obelisco della Minerva
  9. 15Testa di CostantinoThe Colossus of Constantine was a monumental acrolithic statue depicting Constantine the Great that occupied the apse of the Basilica of Maxentius in the early 4th century.
  10. 16Tempio di Augusto
  11. 17Arcus de Campanis
  12. 18Criptoportico Neroniano
  13. 19Monumento a Giovanni Paolo II
  14. 20Anfiteatro castrense
  15. 21Porta AsinariaThe Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome.
  16. 22Porta PiaPorta Pia was one of the northern gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy.
  17. 23Porta SettimianaPorta Settimiana is one of the gates of the Aurelian Walls in Rome, Italy. It rises at the northern vertex of the rough triangle traced by the town walls, built by Emperor Aurelian in the 3rd century, in the area of Trastevere and up through the Janiculum.
  18. 24Domus Augustana - PeristilioThe Domus Augustana is the modern name given to the central residential part of the vast Roman Palace of Domitian on the Palatine Hill.
  19. 25rilievo di AsclepioThe Temple of Aesculapius is a neoclassical building located in Villa Borghese gardens, Rome.
  20. 26Basilica Hilariana
  21. 27Fontana del Prigione
  22. 28Imperatore Costantino il GrandeThe Vision of Constantine is an equestrian sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, located in the Scala Regia by St.
  23. 29Porta PincianaPorta Pinciana is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome.
  24. 30Ipogeo degli AureliThe Hypogeum of the Aurelii or the Hypogeum of Aurelius Felicissimus is a privately run catacomb in Rome.

Museums & Galleries13

  1. 31Museo Storico dei Bersaglieri
  2. 32Galleria SpadaThe Galleria Spada is a museum in Rome, which is housed in the Palazzo Spada on Piazza Capo di Ferro.
  3. 33Museo di Roma
  4. 34Museo Nazionale Romano
  5. 35Palazzo Doria PamphiljThe Galleria Doria Pamphilj is a large private art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy, between Via del Corso and Via della Gatta.
  6. 36Galleria ColonnaThe Palazzo Colonna is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, Italy, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli.
  7. 37Chiostro del BramanteThe Chiostro del Bramante is an Italian Renaissance building in Rome, commissioned by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa in around 1500, and designed by the architect Donato Bramante.
  8. 38Museo napoleonico di Roma
  9. 39Galleria Nazionale d'Arte AnticaThe Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica is an art museum in Rome, Italy.
  10. 40Casa di GoetheThe Casa di Goethe is a museum in Rome, in Via del Corso 18, dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, his Italian Journey and his life at Rome in the years from 1786 through 1788.
  11. 41Stadio di Domiziano
  12. 42Museo Storico della Liberazione
  13. 43Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le arti decorativeBoncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Arts Museum, Rome, is the Decorative Arts Museum of the National Gallery of Modern Art of Rome.

Public Art7

  1. 44Mosè
  2. 45Bocca della VeritàThe Mouth of Truth is an ancient Roman marble mask in Rome, Italy, which stands against the left wall of the portico of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, at the Piazza della Bocca della Verità, the site of the ancient Forum Boarium.
  3. 46Cola di Rienzo
  4. 47Statua "parlante" Madama LucreziaMadama Lucrezia is one of the six "talking statues" of Rome.
  5. 48"Statua parlante" Abate LuigiAbbot Luigi is one of the talking statues of Rome.
  6. 49Statua dell'Angelo
  7. 50Piè di marmo

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