# What to see in Rome: 15 unmissable places

From the Colosseum to the Vatican, the stops every guide and traveller considers essential in the Eternal City.

- 11 votes · 17 items
- Jun 7, 2022 · zaino
- https://even.best/en/l/6/what-to-see-in-rome-15-unmissable-places

## Top 15

1. **Colosseum** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Flavian Amphitheatre, inaugurated in AD 80, held more than 50,000 spectators. <https://colosseo.it/>
2. **Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Papal collections with the Raphael Rooms and Michelangelo's ceiling and Last Judgment. <https://www.museivaticani.va/>
3. **St. Peter's Basilica** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The world's largest church, with Michelangelo's Pietà, Bernini's baldachin and a climbable dome. <https://www.basilicasanpietro.va/>
4. **Roman Forum and Palatine Hill** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The political heart of ancient Rome and the hill of imperial palaces, on one ticket with the Colosseum.
5. **Piazza Navona** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Built on the site of Domitian's Stadium, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers.
6. **Spanish Steps** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The 18th-century staircase of 135 steps rising from Piazza di Spagna.
7. **Trevi Fountain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nicola Salvi's Baroque fountain completed in 1762; tradition says to toss in a coin.
8. **Borghese Gallery** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Villa with Bernini sculptures (Apollo and Daphne) and six Caravaggio paintings; entry by reservation only. <https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/>
9. **Trastevere** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Neighbourhood of lanes and trattorias across the Tiber, with the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.
10. **Castel Sant'Angelo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hadrian's mausoleum turned papal fortress, linked to the Vatican by the Passetto di Borgo. <https://castelsantangelo.cultura.gov.it/>
11. **Capitoline Museums** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The world's oldest public museum (1471), on Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio. <https://www.museicapitolini.org/>
12. **Villa Borghese** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 80-hectare park with a lake and the Pincio terrace overlooking Piazza del Popolo.
13. **Altare della Patria (Vittoriano)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Monument to Victor Emmanuel II on Piazza Venezia, with a panoramic terrace over the city.
14. **Baths of Caracalla** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ruins of the great 3rd-century baths, which host a summer opera season.
15. **Appian Way** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The 'queen of roads' from 312 BC, lined with the catacombs of St Callixtus and St Sebastian.
16. **Santa Maria Maggiore** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of the four major papal basilicas, with 5th-century mosaics.
17. **Pantheon** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Hadrian's temple from AD 125, with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and its oculus.

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