A. Terminal A

Address: Via Marsala 7

T – Termini Station

Address: Via Giolitti

Points of artistic interest:  Piazza della Repubblica – S. Maria degli Angeli – Opera House – Via Nazionale – Baths of Diocletian – National Museum – Exhibition Palace

Info: Piazza dei Cinquecento, there on the Esquiline Hill is located the Termini station whose name derives from the ancient Baths of Diocletian from the Latin word thermae.

B. Terminal B terminus

Address: Piazza dei Cinquecento corner of Via Cavour

2. St. Mary Major

Address: P.za dell’Esquilino, 14

Points of artistic interest:  Santa Maria Maggiore – Piazza Vittorio – S. Giovanni in Laterano – S. Pietro in Vincoli – Via Cavour – Colle Oppio

Info: The Oppian Hill is one of the two heights of the Esquiline together with the Cispio. On its slopes were located popular houses, while on the summit were stately homes included in the Domus Aurea. With the death of Nero this was buried and the baths of Titus and Trajan were built on top.

3. Colosseum

Address: Via di S. Gregorio

Points of artistic interest:  Colosseum – Imperial Forums – Palatine – Arch of Constantine – Arch of Titus

Info: The area of ​​the Forum, originally marshy, was reclaimed through one of the very first urban works of Ancient Rome: the Cloaca maxima. The area of ​​the Forum hosts all the largest public and sacred buildings of Republican Rome. The most ancient Roman temples such as the sanctuaries of Saturn or the Dioscuri, the basilicas such as Julia and Emilia.

4. Circus Maximus

Address: Via del Circo Massimo, Belvedere Romolo e Remo

Points of artistic interest:  Circus Maximus – Mouth of Truth – Temple of Vesta – S. Maria in Trastevere – Trastevere – Municipal Rose Garden – Synagogue

Info: The Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere was probably the first place of Christian worship built in Rome, certainly the first dedicated to the cult of the Virgin Mary. According to legend, the church was erected by St. Julius I in 340 on the oratory founded by Pope Callixtus I in the third century.

5. Venice Square

Address: Via del Teatro di Marcello

Points of artistic interest:  Piazza Venezia – Altar of the Fatherland – Campidoglio – Teatro Marcello – Trajan’s Column – Trajan’s Market – Largo Argentina – Campo de’ Fiori – Pantheon

Info: Work of Trajan’s architect and military engineer Apollodorus who dug the mountain saddle that connected the Capitoline Hill and the Quirinal, opening a passage towards the Campus Martius. The various buildings that make up Trajan’s Markets are distinguished by their functionality. The lower part for activities directly related to the Forum, while the upper part is dedicated to management and administrative activities.

6. Vatican

Address: Lungo Tevere Tor di Nona 6

Points of artistic interest:  St. Peter’s Basilica – Vatican Museums (Sistine Chapel) – Castel Sant’Angelo – Piazza Navona – Corso Vittorio Emanuele

Info: Castel Sant’Angelo is a mausoleum, desired and designed by Hadrian as his tomb and his successors. Defined as the Passetto, a direct passage to the Vatican walls, it allowed the head of the Church to take refuge in case of need. Its strategic importance in the darkest and most painful periods for Rome and the Church was used by Alexander VI Borgia and by Pope Clement VII Medici (1523-1534) who took refuge in the Castle during the Sack of Rome.

7. Spanish Steps

Address: Via Ludovisi, 49

Points of artistic interest:  Villa Borghese – Via Veneto – Borghese Gallery – Bioparco – Piazza di Spagna – Trinità dei Monti

Info: The Ara Pacis Augustae wanted by the Senate of Rome in July of the year 13 BC to celebrate Augustus after the military campaigns in Gaul and Spain. For a long time forgotten buried due to the flooding of the Tiber. The rediscovery in 1568 at the corner between via in Lucina and via del giardino Theodoli. In 1937, it was Mussolini who started the reconstruction of the Ara.

8. Barberini/Trevi Fountain

Address: Via Barberini, 16

Points of artistic interest:  Piazza Barberini – Trevi Fountain – Via Sistina – Via Veneto – Galleria Borghese – Villa Borghese – Palazzo Barberini – Quirinale

Info: Piazza Barberini is located between the Quirinal Hill and the Sallustian Gardens, it is located at the top of the hill. It takes its name from Palazzo Barberini which overlooks the right and which houses the important Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica which collects countless works of art.