Curiosities
18 giant murals cover the housing blocks in Rome's Tor Marancia suburb.
The Big City Life street art project was designed to regenerate the forgotten suburb of Tor Marancia by turning the area's social housing tower blo...
Rome's S. Pietro in Vincoli hosts the chains of St Peter as well as Michelangelo's Moses.The church of S. Pietro in Vincoli, known in English as St Peter in Chains, is a minor basilica hidden away in Rome's Monti distric...
Hidden cloisters provide a silent refuge in the heart of Trastevere.The Nuovo Regina Margherita hospital in Trastevere houses one of Rome's more unexpected treasures: the tenth-century monastery of S. Cosimato and its be...
This Renaissance palace, which is a World Heritage Site and is attributed to Bramante, was once the papal chancery and remains an extraterritorial property of the Vatican.
Located between Campo de' Fiori and Corso Vitto...
Rome's Flaminio district hosts a short private residential street whose English architectural style has earned it the nickname La Piccola Londra, or Little London.
This unexpected taste of England is characterised by...
Hidden Roman treasures: Borromini's optical illusion.
Palazzo Spada, located between Campo de' Fiori and Rome's river Tiber, is home to a gallery whose sumptuous art collection contains works by 16th- and 17th-century m...
A hidden frescoed lane-way just metres from Rome's Campo de' Fiori.
Il Passetto del Biscione is a small but significant treasure often missed on the tourist trail, despite its central location around the corner from Cam...
The recently-restored Portico d’Ottavia is a complex of ancient monuments rebuilt by Octavian (later the emperor Augustus) around 27 BC and dedicated to his sister Octavia. Over the centuries it has survived fire, had it...
With customers including Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, this small but well-stocked Roman shop (the first in Italy to specialise in auteur cinema) has a collection of about 5,000 movies to buy or rent.
The shop’s...
Candles galore awaits you in this family-run candle making business.
All the candles are hand made and come in every imaginable size, colour and shape.
Best views in Rome. There are as many good views of the city as there are hills of Rome. The famous ones are the view from the Pincio, from the Fontanone on the Gianicolo and from the top of St Peter's dome. But there ar...
On the ground floor of the elegant Palazzo Spada you can admire a magnificent colonnade with an enormous statue of Mars at the end. This is a clever trick of perspective by Borromini, because the gallery is really only a...
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