Sights in the Upper Tiber Bend

What to see in the neighborhood around the Pantheon and Piazza Navona in Rome

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

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The Pantheon*** The Pantheon - The only ancient Roman temple to survive the millennia intact is also one of the most amazing architectural spaces in Rome, an expansive cylinder swaddled in precious marbles, topped by a vast concrete hemisphere, and pierced by a wide shaft of sunlight from the oculus at the center... . Full Story

Piazza Navona in Rome** Piazza Navona - Sit at a café table on the oblong Piazza Navona square—built atop the oval of an ancient Roman stadium, lined by palaces and churches, and centered on Bernini's fantastic Four Rivers fountain—and just watch the carnival of Roman life spin past you... Full Story

Michelangelo's Risen Christ at Santa Maria Sopra Minerva* Santa Maria Sopra Minerva - Rome's only Gothic church, fronted by a whimsical Bernini statue of a baby elephant carrying a tiny Egyptian obelisk. Inside are a chapel frescoed by Filippo Lippi and Michelangelo's muscular Risen Christ... Full story

A sarcophagus at the Palazzo Altemps branch of the Rome National Museum* Museo Nazionale Romano: Palazzo Altemps - The Palazzo Altemps branch of the Rome National Museum is perhaps the prettiest of the four branches (the other three are all up near Termini), with loads of excellent ancient sculptures and other Roman art installed in the frescoed rooms of a 16th-century palace just off the north end of Piazza Navona... Full Story

San Luigi dei Francesi* San Luigi dei Francesi - A trio of Caravaggio paintings line the back left chapel of France's national church in Rome... Full story

Caravaggio in the church of Sant'AgostinoSant'Agostino - Another Caravaggio, Adoration of the Shepherds (though frankly, they look a bit more like janitors), decorates the church's left aisle. Also in this church are a fresco by Raphael and some carving by Sansovino... Full story

Sant'Ivo alla SapienzaSant'Ivo alla Sapienza - Borromini's masterpiece of a baroque church—a complex interplay of concave and convex lines topped by a swirly elliptical lantern that looks for all the world like soft-serve ice cream—is hidden away in the courtyard of a nondescript university building, making your "discovery" of it that much more surprising and special... Full story

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

Andrea Pozzo's dome in the church of Sant'IgnazioSan Ignazio di Loyola - A stage-set of a piazza out front leads to a church interior that is not all it seems to be—watch the dome carefully as you walk up the aisle towards it... Full story

Pasquino the talking statuePasquino - Rome's favorite public pundit and editorial cartoonist has been on the job for centuries now, dispensing his wit, wisdom, and barely concealed rage at the problems facing society from the corner of a palazzo just off Piazza Navona.... Full Story

Colonnna di Marco AurelioColumn of Marcus Aurelius - The emperor's exploits and most famous victories spelled out comic-strip fashion in a spiral up this giant marble pillar along the Via del Corso.... 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

Mercato delle Stampe - Old and antique books, prints, maps, and stamps in a small group of booths and shops at Largo della Fontanella Borghese (between the Pantheon and Ara Pacis).
Mon–Sat 9:30am–6pm.

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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

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

The Trevi Fountain in Rome** The Trevi Fountain - The world's most famous wishing well is a riot of sculpture and a favorite late-night gathering place in Rome.... Full Story

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