Janiculum Walk

The Church of San Pietro in Montorio sits on the slope of the Janiculum Hill, marked by a long, light-orange facade that stretches along the piazza. Rebuilt in the late fifteenth century with funding from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella…

The Tempietto del Bramante is a small, circular chapel tucked into a cloister at the church of San Pietro in Montorio. You can identify it by its two-story design: a cylindrical stone cella encircled by sixteen granite columns, all topped…

The Fontana dell'Acqua Paola, known locally as the Fontanone or "Big Fountain," rises on the Janiculum Hill as a massive, triumphal gateway of white and polychrome marble. Completed in sixteen twelve, this monument marks the terminal point…

Villa Lante al Gianicolo sits on the Janiculum Hill, marked by a Renaissance facade of Tuscan columns and a large loggia that opens to a sweeping view of Rome. Built between fifteen eighteen and fifteen thirty-one, the villa was…

A single, thunderous boom echoes across Rome every day at exactly twelve o'clock, signaling midday from the Gianicolo Hill. This tradition traces back to December first, eighteen forty-seven, when Pope Pius the Ninth ordered a cannon to be…

The bronze equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi towers over the summit of Janiculum Hill, mounted on a massive marble pedestal that commands the Roman skyline. Designed by sculptor Emilio Gallori and inaugurated on September twentieth,…

The Passeggiata del Gianicolo is a series of avenues lined with plane trees that wind their way up the Janiculum Hill. This route is marked by dozens of marble busts depicting the soldiers and officers who fought for the short-lived Roman…

The Botanical Garden of Rome, or Orto Botanico di Roma, is marked by a sprawling twelve-hectare landscape that climbs from the Trastevere neighborhood up the slopes of the Janiculum Hill. It is a dense, tiered expanse of greenery,…