Sacred Rome

travel itineraries

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

This itinerary guides you in the visit to the four Basilicas of the city. San Giovanni in Laterano, is located in the Imperial Palace donated by the Constantine to Pope Miltiades.

The pontiffs established here the papal seat until his transfer to Avignone. Here Charlemagne was received after the coronation in St. Peter's on Christmas night dell'800.

The interior with five aisles is a work of Borromini who intervened for the Jubilee of 1650. At the heart of the presbytery is the tabernacle of the fourteenth century. From the left transept you access the thirteenth century cloister realized by the workshop of Vassalletto.

San Pietro rises sull'Ager Vaticanus where there was originally the Nerone’s circus. Here was martyred the apostle Peter, whose tomb had become this place the center of Christianity and the place where Constantine erected a basilica, rebuilt from 1503, by Pope Julius II.

The facade is preceded by the Bernini colonnade of 1656. At the center of the square is located the obelisk, end of '500, in which are preserved relics of the Cross of Christ. Dominates the dome, designed by Michelangelo on the project and completed after his death in 1564 by Della Porta.

The interior bears the imprint of scenic Bernini with the canopy and bronze papal chair that is the alleged wooden seat of St. Peter. In the first chapel to the right you can admire the Pietà realized by Michelangelo in his first stay in Rome in 1498 at just 23 years old. On the Via Ostiense there is St. Paul outside the walls (San Paolo fuori dalle mura), built on the relics of St. Paul, completely rebuilt after a fire in 1823.

The interior, with a wide nave and four side aisles, retains the ciborium of 1285 of Arnolfo di Cambio and the paschal candle of Vassalletto, performers also decorating the cloister. Santa Maria Maggiore, which rises sull'Esquilino, was founded by Pope Liberius.

The scene of a miraculous snowfall occurred in August 356. Its bell tower is the highest in the city. The monumental facade eighteenth overlapped with a previous which are mosaics of the thirteenth century.