Sights on the Aventine and Testaccio

What to see in the Aventine Hill and Testaccio neighborhoods of Rome

Tourist info:
www.turismoroma.it
www.060608.it
City museums:
www.museiincomuneroma.it
Ancient sites:
archeoroma.beniculturali.it

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Santa Sabina in RomeSanta Sabina - This gorgeous, rarely visited church on the Aventine Hill retains some of the earliest depictions of Christianity's major artistic themes in the world on its carved 5th-century doors... Full story

St. Peter's dome though the Knights of Malta keyhole on Aventine HillThe Knights of Malta Keyhole - A peek-a-boo view of St. Peter's from the top of the Aventine Hill—and the entrance to the private fiefdom of an order of knights that has survived since the Crusades.... Full Story

Circus Maximus in RomeCircus Maximus - Slung into the Murcia Valley between the Palatine and Aventine hills, the elongated grassy jogging oval known as the Circo Massimo was once the largest stadium in all of Rome, a 2,000-foot-long track where the empire threw its most extravagant chariot races to entertain crowds of up to 385,000 screaming spectators... Full story

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Bocca della Verita, in Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, Rome* Santa Maria in Cosmedin - It's not the glittering mosaics, 12th-century bell tower, or cosmatesque pavement inside that draw the crowds to this medieval church; it's the ancient Roman sewer-covering inside the portico, a grotesque face with a gaping mouth called the * "Mouth of Truth," into which Gregory Peck-wannabes trust their hands and brazenly tell lies while Audrey Hepburn types shriek with horror as the men pretend that the mouth chomps off their hands for fibbing. Rent Roman Holiday and you'll see what I mean... Full story

Bocca della Verità* The Mouth of Truth - An ancient Roman sewer-covering carved into a grotesque face with a gaping mouth that legend holds will bite off the fingers of anyone who dares stick in his hand and tell a lie.... Full Story

The Foro BoarioThe Foro Boario - The forgotten forum, a pair of teensy, utterly ancient temples slung between the back side of the Capitoline Hill and the Tiber River, across from the Mouth of Truth, in what was until modern time a cow pasture.... Full Story

Isola TiberinaTiber Island - Rome's only island rides the water of the Tevere like a boat laden with the echoes of ancient myths and beliefs... Full story

Palatino* The Palatine Hill - The Palatine Hill was where the legendary Romulus founded a tiny Latin village in the 8th century BC. When the hamlet grew to become Rome, patrician families and early emperors covered it in their stately mansions (called palatium after the hill, which evolved into palazzo in Italian, palais in French, and "palace" in English). It offers a scenic escape from the crowds where you can wander across the grassy floors of ancient Imperial palaces and peer down the gated passageways that were once the homes of Rome's rich and famous... Full story

Cavallini frescoes in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere* Santa Cecilia in Trastevere - You'd never know from the bland baroque interior of this convent church that, by slipping a modest bribe to the nuns, you can get inside the cloistered section to see one of Rome's last remaining medieval masterpieces of fresco by Pietro Cavallini... Full story

Bernini's Ecstasy of Beata Ludovica in san Francesco A Ripa in TrastevereSan Francesco a Ripa - Bernini was the master of racy, nearly erotic religious themes... Full story

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