The Piazza del Campidoglio was the sacred place of Rome. Here stood the Temple of Jupiter and the Capitoline Tabularium, the public archive that was transformed into the Palazzo Senatorio, even today the town hall.

The square is a work of Michelangelo as the double-wide ramp, before which the artist placed the sculptures with the Nile and the Tiber and Minerva sitting at the center. The square at the center has a copy of a bronze sculpture of Marcus Aurelius on a horse whose original is at the Capitoline Museums.

The Palatino welcomed the residences of emperors in summer. The name probably derives from Palatium, becoming then the common sense, for all languages, the prestigious homes. Under the Palatino, there is the Roman Forum – Foro Romano where the first settlers came to sell their livestock.

Later the area became the center of the city. Prominent in the Forum there are the way sacred path of imperial triumphs, the remains of the Temple of Saturn, the Rostrums where the Romans attached the rostrums taken away from enemy ships, the Curia where sitting senators, the Lapis Niger likely place of burial of Romulus. Following we encounter the Basilica Emilia, the Temple of Antonio and Faustina, the Temple of Vesta and the evocative House of the Vestal Virgins. And also the monumental Basilica of Maxentius.

At the top of the Via Sacra, there is the Arch of Titus, celebrating the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, from which you reach the Colosseum, the amphitheatre built on the Nerone’s Lake in the first century AD, the symbol of the city. Elliptical in shape and divided in half with arches in the three orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. It doesn’t keep intact the original wooden floor, which hid the maze of corridors and lifts in which there were animals and gladiators.

From the Coliseum starts Via dei Fori Imperiali, built by Mussolini to connect the amphitheatre at Piazza Venezia. Fori Imperiali have been built by the first emperors which believed that the Roman Forum was an area too small to celebrate their person. Alongside the Forum of Caesar there is the Temple of Peace, which follows the Forum of Nerva and Trajan's Forum, with the famous and monumental Column Markets.

Finally we reach Piazza Venezia so named because of palace built in the fifteenth century by the Venetian Paul Barbo, head office of the Republic of the Serenissima. The Altare della Patria dominates the square, a magnificent monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, first King of Italy. Here there is also the tribute to the Unknown Soldier.