Roman Holiday Locations

Piazza della Repubblica is defined by its sweeping semicircular colonnades, which trace the exact perimeter of the ancient exedra—a vast, open-air seating area—that once belonged to the Baths of Diocletian. Designed by architect Gaetano…

Palazzo Barberini is a seventeenth-century Baroque palace that extends its wings toward the piazza like an open, U-shaped embrace. Built starting in sixteen twenty-five for the newly elected Pope Urban VIII, the structure broke from the…

Via della Stamperia takes its name from the historic printing and engraving works that once defined this street. While many visitors walk this path to reach the iconic Trevi Fountain, the street itself leads to a complex of buildings…

The Trevi Fountain is a massive travertine stone facade, eighty-six feet high and over one hundred and sixty feet wide, that dominates the small square where three streets converge. As the dramatic terminal point of the ancient Aqua Virgo…

Piazza della Rotonda is dominated by the Pantheon, which stands on the southern side of the square. The name comes from the informal title of the Pantheon, Santa Maria Rotonda, given after the ancient temple became a Christian church in…

The Victor Emmanuel the Second Monument is impossible to miss at the head of Piazza Venezia. It is a massive structure of gleaming, white Botticino marble that stands seventy meters tall and one hundred thirty-five meters wide against the…

The Arch of Septimius Severus is a massive, triple-arched monument of white marble that rises twenty-three meters above the northwestern end of the Roman Forum. Completed in two hundred three A.D., it was built to honor the military…

The Mouth of Truth is a heavy, circular marble mask carved into the likeness of a bearded man with wide, hollow eyes and a gaping mouth. Weighing more than one thousand three hundred kilograms and measuring nearly one point eight metres…