From Piramide to Bocca della Verità | Rome Travel Itineraries

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The Historic Center of Rome coincides with the territory enclosed by the Aurelian Walls, a circuit of about 18 kilometers built in the second century AD by Aureliano for delimit a city that in its peak had more than one million inhabitants. It was within these walls that still was developed in 1870 when Rome became the capital of Italy.

• From Piazza di Spagna to Piazza del Popolo

• From Piazza del Campidoglio to Piazza Venezia ( Roman Forum)

• Sacred Rome

• Parks and Villas

• Walking in Roman Forum

• From Gianicolo to Castel Sant’Angelo.

• From Campo de’ Fiori to Pantheon

• Park of Museums (Parco dei Musei)

• From Piramide to Bocca della Verità

• From Piazza di Spagna to Piazza del Popolo

• Rome by night

From Piramide to Bocca della Verita'

Next to Porta San Paolo (Saint Paul Door) is located the monumental Cestia Pyramid, a tomb built in the honour of Caio Cestio Epulone Continuing on Viale Giotto and on Viale Guido Baccelli, we arrive to the Baths of Caracalla, one of the biggest thermal complex of the antiquity.

The itinerary continues on “Via delle Terme di Caracalla”, arriving then to the Circo Massimo (Massimo Circus), great example of the architecture of the Etruscan Rome, built for the spectacles by King Tarquinio Prisco. Along “Via del Circo Massimo”, we reach the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, where is located the mask of the Mouth of the Truth which also gives its name to the front square. According to the tradition, whoever lies after having put the hand inside the mask, will lost it.