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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you get important sights with maps, photographs,
the most from your stay in Rome with the and detailed illustrations. In addition, nine
min imum of practical difficulty. The opening planned walks take you to parts of Rome
section, Introducing Rome, locates the city you might otherwise miss.
geographically, sets modern Rome in its Carefully researched tips for hotels, stores
historical context and explains how Roman and markets, restaurants and cafés, sports,
life changes through the year. Rome at a and entertainment are found in Travelers’
Glance is an overview of the city’s attractions. Needs, and the Survival Guide has advice on
The main sightseeing section, Rome Area by everything from mailing a letter to taking
Area, starts on page 64. It describes all the the Metro.

Finding Your Way Around the Sightseeing Section
Each of the 16 sightseeing areas in the city is the heart of the area. Finding your way around
color-coded for easy reference. Every chapter each chapter is made simple by the numbering
opens with an introduction to the part of Rome system used throughout. The most important
it covers, describing its history and character, sights are covered in detail in two or more
followed by a Street by Street map illustrating full pages.

ROME AREA B Y AREA  105
PIAZZA DELLA ROTONDA Each area has
The Pantheon, one of the great buildings in parliament and many nearby buildings are color-coded
the history of European architecture, has government offices. This is also the main
stood at the heart of Rome for nearly 2,000 financial district of Rome with banking thumb tabs.
years. The historic area around it has seen headquarters and the stock exchange. Not
uninterrupted economic and political many people live here, but in the evenings,
activity throughout that time. Palazzo di Romans stroll in the narrow streets and fill
Montecitorio, built for Pope Innocent XII as the lively restaurants and cafés that make
a papal tribunal in 1694, is now the Italian this a focus for the city’s social life.
Sights at a Glance
Churches and Temples Fountains Restaurants
1 Temple of Hadrian 5 Fontanella del Facchino see pp311–15
3 Sant’Ignazio di Loyola Historic Cafés 1 Al Duello A locator map shows
9 Gesù pp110–11 y Caffè Giolitti 2 Armando al Pantheon
q Santa Maria sopra Minerva 3 Il Bacaro
e Pantheon pp114–15 4 Clemente alla Maddalena
r Sant’Eustachio 5 Enoteca Capranica where you are in Locator map
t La Maddalena 6 Maccheroni
i Santa Maria in Campo Marzio 7 Osteria del Sostegno
p San Lorenzo in Lucina VIA DELL’ARANCIO 8 La Pallacorda relation to other areas
Historic Streets and Piazzas R I P E T TA V. FONTANELLA VIA D. LEONCINO Spagna 400m 9 Pantha Rei
2 Piazza di Sant’Ignazio D I BORGHESE PIAZZA BORGHESE PIAZZA V I A 10 La Rosetta
11 Vitti
7 Via della Gatta V I A VIA D. LEONE SAN LORENZO in the city center.
IN LUCINA
Historic Buildings VIA D. CLEMENTINO D E L
4 Palazzo del Collegio V I A D . L U P A MARZIO
Romano
6 Palazzo Doria Pamphilj PIAZZA CARDELLI V. DI PALLACORDA VICOLO D. DIVINO AMORE
8 Palazzo Altieri FIRENZE V. DEI PREFETTI PIAZZA D.
PIAZZA
u Palazzo Baldassini VIA DI CAMPO PARLAMENTO
o Palazzo Borghese V. D'ASCANIO VICOLO VALDINA VIC. D.
V I A I N L U C I N A C O R
a Palazzo di Montecitorio VIA METASTASIO SDRUCCIOLO S O
f Palazzo Capranica V I A D E L L A S C R O FA V. D. STELLETTA V. DELLA MISSIONE
Columns, Obelisks VIA D. UFFICI COLONNA PIAZZA
and Statues PIAZZA D. VICARIO MONTECITORIO
PIAZZA DI
0 Pie’ di Marmo COPPELLE
w Obelisk of Santa Maria VIA COPPELLE VIA D. MADDALENA ANTONINA Barberini 750m
sopra Minerva
s Obelisk of V. D. P OZZO D. CORNACCHIE COLONNELLE V. D. CAPRANICA PIAZZA V. D. GUGLIA V. D. COLONNA V. DEI BERGAMASCHI VIA DI PIETRA
Montecitorio
P. D. PIETRA
d Column of MONTECATINI V.
Marcus Aurelius VIA GIUSTINIANI VIA D. PASTINI V. DE’ BURRÒ
PIAZZA DELLA
ROTONDA
SALITA D. CRESCENZI V.DEL SEMINARIO PIAZZA
SAN V. D. COLLEGIO ROMANO V I A D E L 202  ROME AREA B Y AREA A VENTINE  203
VIA D.DOGANA VECCH I
V. D. MINERVA
EUSTACHIO PIAZZA S. V. D. PALOMBELLA PIAZZA DELLA MACUTO VIA SANT’IGNAZIO
MINERVA PIAZZA
COLLEGIO VIA LATA C O R S O Street-by-Street: Piazza della Bocca della Verità FORUM
V. DI S.
ROMANO
C HI A RA
V. DI S. CATERINA The area attracts visitors eager to place their hands inside the Bocca della Verità (the TRASTEVERE PALATINE
DA SIENA
PIAZZA D. PIAZZA Mouth of Truth) in the portico of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. There are many other sights
VIA D. ARCO VIA D. PIGNA V. S. S TEFANO D EL CACCO GRAZIOLI Te v e r e CARACALLA
D. CIAMBELLA
See also Street Finder maps VIA DEI CESTARI PIGNA V I A D . G E S Ù to see in this quiet corner of the city beside the Tiber, which was the site of ancient AVENTINE
Rome’s first port and its busy cattle market. Substantial Classical remains include two
VIA MONTERONE
4, 5, 12 VIA DEL PLEBISCITO
VIA D I T O R RE A R GENT I NA
PIAZZA small temples from the Republican age and the Arch of Janus from the later Empire. In Ostiense
C O R S O V I T T O R I O
E M A N U E L E I I
DEL the 6th century the area became home to a Greek community from Byzantium, who
0 metres 200 GESÙ VIA DEGLI ASTALLI founded the churches of San Giorgio in Velabro and Santa Maria in Cosmedin. 5 Santa Maria della 4 San Teodoro Locator Map
ancient round church is decorated
This 16th-century
0 yards 200 V I A D ’ A R A C O E L I Consolazione The 15th-century portal of this See Central Rome Map pp16–17
7 Casa dei Crescenzi Key church used to serve a with the insignia of Pope
hospital nearby.
Nicholas V.
used columns and capitals
Fountain outside the Pantheon at dusk For keys to symbols see back flap This 11th-century building Suggested route
from ancient Roman temples.
0 metres 75
0 yards 75
Area map Sant’Omobono, a late
16th-century church, now stands
in isolation in the middle of an
1For easy reference, the sights in important archaeological site. The
remains of sacrificial altars and
two temples from the 6th century
6 San Giovanni Decollato
BC have been discovered.
The plain Renaissance façade
was completed in about 1504.
each area are numbered and
V I A D E I F I E N I L I
plotted on an area map. To help 3 San Giorgio in Velabro
The simple 12th-century portico of Ionic
columns was destroyed by a bomb in 1993
but has been restored.
the visitor, this map also shows L U N G O T E V E R E D E I P I E R L E O N I G I O V A N N I D E C O L L A T O V I A D I S A N T E O D O R O The Arco degli
Argentari,
dedicated to the
Metro stations. The area’s key Tevere Emperor Septimius
Severus in AD 204,
is decorated with
sights are listed by category, such Ponte Rotto, as this forlorn ruined arch in the scenes of religion
and war.
P I A Z Z A
Tiber is called, means simply “broken bridge”.
D E L L A V E R I T å
Built in the 2nd century BC, its original name D E L L A B O C C A 2 Arch of Janus
as Churches and Temples, P O N T E P A L A T I N O This square
was Pons Aemilius.
structure with
arches on each
side dates from the
Museums and Galleries, and 4th century AD.
Ancient Sites. V I A D E I C E R C H I
8 . Temples of the Forum Boarium The Fontana dei Tritoni by Carlo 1 . Santa Maria in Cosmedin
The tiny round Temple of Hercules and its neighbour, the Bizzaccheri was built here in 1715. V I A D E L L A G R E C A This medieval church has a
Temple of Portunus, are the best preserved of Rome’s The style shows the powerful fine marble mosaic floor and a
Republican temples. influence of Bernini. Gothic baldacchino.
A suggested route takes Street by Street map
in some of the most 2This gives a bird’s-eye view of interesting Stars indicate
interesting and attractive and important parts of each sightseeing the sights that
streets in the area. area. The numbering of the sights ties no visitor
in with the area map and the fuller should miss.
description of the entries on the
pages that follow.
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