Sights in the Lower Tiber Bend

What to see in the area around Campo de' Fiori and the Jewish Ghetto in Rome

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

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Campo dei Fiori market* Campo de' Fiori - Rome's morning flower and produce market fills a piazza at the very heart of the centro storico; by the lunch hour it is ringed with traditional trattorie; by evening the pubs open and the square transforms yet again into a major hub of Rome's nightlife scene.... Full Story

Sant'Andrea della ValleSant'Andrea della Valle - Opera buffs will remember this as the setting for the first act in Tosca, though its baroque architecture and Domenichino paintings are also a draw... Full story

Largo della Torre Argentina* Largo Argentina - A few steps from one of Rome's main city bus stops lies a trio of ancient temples crawling with stray cats and overflowing with weeds, and the crumbling set of steps upon which Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March.... Full Story

Teatro di PompeoTeatro di Pompeo - The remains of an ancient Roman amphitheater in the basement of a contemporary Roman restaurant (killer pasta all'amatriciana, too).... 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

Nearby sights

Galleria Doria PamphiljGalleria Doria Pamphilj - This private art collection of the Doria Pamphilj princes is now open to the public, the layout preserved more or less as it was in the 19th century: jumbled together as a giant jigsaw of works by Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Bernini, Titian, Correggio, Bellini, Rubens, and more.... Full Story

Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele IIThe Vittoriano - The Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II—dedicated to Italy's first king, Victor Emmanuel II, and usually called "The Wedding Cake" or "The Giant Typewriter"—is the undisputedly ugliest and most pretentious building in all of Rome. However, it now has one saving grace: you can now climb it for a magnificent panorama over the heart of ancient Rome.... Full Story

Capitoline Hill* Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill) - Walk up Michelangelo's sloping carriage staircase, past the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, to the top of the Capitoline Hill (seat of the Roman government and whence we get the word "capitol"). Skirt around the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (a replica of the AD 2nd-century original), past the two palazzi housing the Capitoline Museums (fabulous ancient art, plus baroque paintings by the likes of Caravaggio, Titian, Rubens, and Il Guercino), and around to the back Palazzo Senatorio. Here you'll find a hidden, magnificent panorama across the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, with the Colosseum peeking out in the background... Full Story

Santa Maria in AracoeliSanta Maria in Aracoeli - The medieval Italian version of the Stairmaster: clambering up every last steep one of this church's 124 steps to see the miraculous baby Jesus statue inside... Full story

Musei Capitolini** Capitoline Museums - Stuffed with ancient statues and mosaics and Renaissance and baroque masterpieces by Caravaggio, Rubens, Titian, Bernini, and Tintoretto, the twinned Capitoline Museums are home to such Rome icons as the archetype statue of the she-wolf suckling the twins Romulus and Remus, Lo Spinario (boy picking thorn out of foot), the Dying Gaul, and those gargantuan marble head, hands, and feet you see on all the postcards (usually with a cat posing on them).... Full Story

Theater of MarcellusTeatro di Marcello - This early blueprint for the Colosseum survives even though medieval builders grafted a series of apartment buildings on top of it (don't tell me the Romans don't know how to recycle).... 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

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

Sant'Angelo bridgePonte Sant'Angelo - The prettiest bridge across the Tiber River is strung with statues of angles designed by Bernini. It leads right to the Pope's private castle, Castel Sant'Angelo.... Full Story

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