Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #11 in Rome, Italy

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 11.1 km
Ascend 194 m
Descend 223 m

Experience Rome in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Rome

Sight 1: San Giuda Taddeo

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The church of San Giuda Taddeo is a church in Rome, in the Trieste district, in via Gradisca.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuda Taddeo (IT)

1230 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 2: Quartiere Coppedè

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Quartiere CoppedèThis Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Coppedè district is a complex of buildings located in Rome in the Trieste district, in the block between Via Tagliamento, Via Arno, Via Ombrone, Via Serchio, Via Reno, Via Clitunno and Via Adige up to Piazza Trasimeno.

Wikipedia: Quartiere Coppedè (IT)

56 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Fontana delle Rane

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The Fountain of the Frogs is located in Rome, in the center of Piazza Mincio, in the so-called Coppedè district.

Wikipedia: Fontana delle Rane (Roma) (IT)

208 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Our Lady of Sorrows at Piazza Buenos Aires

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Our Lady of Sorrows at Piazza Buenos Aires

Santa Maria Addolorata a Piazza Buenos Aires is a titular church and the Argentine national church, on Viale Regina Margherita, Rome.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires (EN)

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Mercede e Sant’Adriano Martire

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Santa Maria della Mercede e Sant'Adriano a Villa Albani is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in north-central Rome, dedicated to Mary of Mercies and Adrian of Nicomedia.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Mercede e Sant'Adriano a Villa Albani (EN)

360 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Catacombe di Santa Felicita

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The Catacombs of Santa Felicita are a catacomb in Rome, located on Via Salaria Nova, in the modern Salario district.

Wikipedia: Catacombe di Santa Felicita (IT)

1243 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 7: Cappella Corpus Christi della Curia generalizia dei Cappucci

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The Church of Corpus Christi is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy, located in the Ludovisi district, on Via Sardegna.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Corpus Christi (IT)

700 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Monumento a Goethe

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The Goethe monument is located in Rome on Viale Goethe in the Villa Borghese. It was designed by the German sculptor Gustav Eberlein on behalf of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who donated it to the city of Rome on the occasion of his birthday in 1902. However, it was the Italian sculptor Valentino Casali who implemented Eberlein's design in his studio in Berlin. The marble-made work was unveiled on 5 August 1904 in the presence of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III.

Wikipedia: Goethe-Denkmal (Rom) (DE)

380 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata a Villa Borghese

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The church of Santa Maria Immacolata in Villa Borghese is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, in the Pinciano district, in Piazza di Siena.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata a Villa Borghese (IT)

689 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: Obelisco di Antinoo

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Obelisco di Antinoo

The Pincian Obelisk is one of the thirteen ancient obelisks in Rome, located in Bucharest Square, along the Avenue of the Obelisk (Pincian Hill).

Wikipedia: Obelisco del Pincio (IT)

403 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

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The Parish Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo is a titular church and a minor basilica in Rome run by the Augustinian order. It stands on the north side of Piazza del Popolo, one of the most famous squares in the city. The church is hemmed in between the Pincian Hill and Porta del Popolo, one of the gates in the Aurelian Wall as well as the starting point of Via Flaminia, the most important route from the north. Its location made the basilica the first church for the majority of travellers entering the city. The church contains works by several famous artists, such as Raphael, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Caravaggio, Alessandro Algardi, Pinturicchio, Andrea Bregno, Guillaume de Marcillat and Donato Bramante.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria del Popolo (EN), Website

78 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Porta del Popolo

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The Porta del Popolo, or Porta Flaminia, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio.

Wikipedia: Porta del Popolo (EN)

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

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The church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli is a church in Rome, in the Campo Marzio district, in Piazza del Popolo, between Via del Corso and Via di Ripetta, or at the top of the Trident. It is popularly known as the twin church of Santa Maria in Montesanto, although the two structures differ mainly in their planimetric layout.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli (Roma) (IT)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Casa di Goethe

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The Casa di Goethe is a museum in Rome, in Via del Corso 18, dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, his Italian Journey and his life at Rome in the years from 1786 through 1788. During his journey Goethe wrote a journal and also many letters which would be published in 1816-17 as the Italian Journey.

Wikipedia: Casa di Goethe (EN)

161 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Santa Maria in Montesanto

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Santa Maria in Montesanto is a titular minor basilica church in Rome, in the Rione Campo Marzio, which stands in Piazza del Popolo, between Via del Corso and Via del Babuino. It is also known as the Church of the Artists. The church is popularly known as the twin church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, though it shows significant differences especially in the planimetry.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria in Montesanto (Rome) (EN), Website

328 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Babuino

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The Babuino is one of the talking statues of Rome, Italy. The fountain is situated in front of the Canova Tadolini Museum, in via del Babuino.

Wikipedia: Babuino (EN)

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Sant'Atanasio

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The Church of Saint Athanasius, also known as Sant'Atanasio dei Greci, is a Greek Catholic titular church located on Via del Babuino 149, near the Spanish steps, in the rione Campo Marzio of Rome, Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Atanasio (EN)

97 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: All Saints' Anglican Church

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All Saints' Church is an active English-speaking chaplaincy of the Church of England's Diocese in Europe - a part of the Anglican Communion - in Rome, Italy.

Wikipedia: All Saints' Church, Rome (EN)

85 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata

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Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata DellaGherardesca / CC BY 4.0

Gesù e Maria is a Baroque church located on Via del Corso in the Rione Campo Marzio of central Rome, Italy. It faces across the street the similarly Baroque facade of San Giacomo in Augusta.

Wikipedia: Gesù e Maria, Rome (EN)

127 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Palazzo Rondinini

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Palazzo Rondinini (or Rondanini) is an eighteenth-century palace in Rome, Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Rondinini (IT)

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: San Giacomo in Augusta

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San Giacomo in Augusta DellaGherardesca / CC BY 4.0

San Giacomo in Augusta is a Baroque church in Rome, Italy. It was the church of the Hospital of San Giacomo degli Incurabili.

Wikipedia: San Giacomo in Augusta (EN)

341 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: Ara Pacis Augustae

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The Ara Pacis Augustae is an altar in Rome dedicated to the Pax Romana. The monument was commissioned by the Roman Senate on July 4, 13 BC to honour the return of Augustus to Rome after three years in Hispania and Gaul and consecrated on January 30, 9 BC. Originally located on the northern outskirts of Rome, a Roman mile from the boundary of the pomerium on the west side of the Via Flaminia, the Ara Pacis stood in the northeastern corner of the Campus Martius, the former flood plain of the Tiber River and gradually became buried under 4 metres (13 ft) of silt deposits. It was reassembled in its current location, now the Museum of the Ara Pacis, in 1938, turned 90° counterclockwise from its original orientation so that the original western side now faces south.

Wikipedia: Ara Pacis (EN)

84 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: San Rocco all'Augusteo

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San Rocco all'Augusteo

La Chiesa di San Rocco is a Roman Catholic building that is part of the Parish of Saint Giacomo. The original conjoined building dates from 1499 and is located at 1 Largo San Rocco, Rome.

Wikipedia: San Rocco, Rome (EN)

625 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 24: Reformed Waldensian Church

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The Waldensian temple in Piazza de Cavour, in Italian the chiesa valdese di piazza Cavour, is a Protestant church in Rome located in Piazza Cavour in the rione Prati. Built in 1913, it is attached to the Waldensian Evangelical Church. It also houses the Vaud Faculty of Theology and the Claudiana bookshop.

Wikipedia: Temple vaudois de la piazza Cavour (FR)

696 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 25: Chiesa della Beata Vergine Maria del Carmine

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Chiesa della Beata Vergine Maria del Carmine

The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel is a church in Rome, Italy, in the Prati district, in Via Sforza Pallavicini.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Beata Vergine Maria del Carmine (IT)

600 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 26: Chiesa di Sant'Egidio a Borgo

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The church of Sant'Egidio in Borgo, ...a Borgo, or ...in Vaticano, is a Roman Catholic oratory in Vatican City dedicated to Saint Giles.

Wikipedia: Sant'Egidio in Borgo (EN)

16 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 27: Saint Anne of the Pontifical Grooms

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Saint Anne of the Pontifical Grooms Ninfamania / CC BY 4.0

The Church of Saint Anne in the Vatican, known as Sant'Anna de' Palafrenieri, is a Catholic parish church dedicated to Saint Anne in Vatican City. The church is the parish church of the State of Vatican City and is placed under the jurisdiction of the Vicariate of the Vatican City and is located beside the Porta Sant'Anna, an international border crossing between Vatican City State and Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri (EN)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: Saint Peregrin's Church

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The Church of San Pellegrino in Vaticano is an ancient Roman Catholic oratory in the Vatican City, located on the Via dei Pellegrini. The church is dedicated to Saint Peregrine of Auxerre, a Roman priest appointed by Pope Sixtus II who had suffered martyrdom in Gaul in the third century. It is one of the oldest churches in the Vatican City.

Wikipedia: San Pellegrino in Vaticano (EN)

683 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 29: Vatican Museums

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Vatican MuseumsOriginal: Fabio Mochi Vector: Kaidor / CC BY 4.0

The Vatican Museums are the public museums of Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employs 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments.

Wikipedia: Vatican Museums (EN)

1144 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 30: Fountain of Piazza dei Quiriti

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The Fontana della Piazza dei Quiriti is a fountain in the Piazza dei Quiriti in Rome, in the middle of the Prati rione. The plaza is named after the inhabitants of the city of Cures, the Curites or later Quirites, namely the Sabines, who became inhabitants and co-founders of Rome. Another theory derives the name from the god Quirinus, a Roman deity.

Wikipedia: Fontana della Piazza dei Quiriti (EN)

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