Rome & Lazio · Italy
Rome
51 published places to visit in Rome & Lazio, each with what it is, how long to allow, and the official source to check before you travel.
A significant cultural or landscape site in Rome, representing a distinctive part of the region’s history and visitor experience.
Places in Rome
Ara Pacis Museum
1 hour 15 minutes · typical visit Modern museum built around Augustus’s richly carved Altar of Peace.
Baths of Diocletian
1 hour 30 minutes · typical visit Ancient bath remains and museum galleries beside Santa Maria degli Angeli.
Borghese Gallery
2 hours · typical visit Compact world-class gallery of Bernini sculpture, Caravaggio paintings and Renaissance art.
Capitoline Museums
2 hours 30 minutes · typical visit Historic civic museums displaying Roman sculpture, art and archaeology around Michelangelo’s square.
Castel Sant'Angelo
2 hours · typical visit Cylindrical fortress and museum beside the Tiber, with papal rooms and rooftop views.
Centrale Montemartini
1 hour 30 minutes · typical visit Ancient sculpture displayed among turbines and machinery in a former power station.
Church of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola
45 minutes · typical visit Baroque church celebrated for Andrea Pozzo’s illusionistic ceiling and painted false dome.
Church of the Gesù
45 minutes · typical visit Mother church of the Jesuit order, with a highly influential Baroque interior.
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
1 hour 30 minutes · typical visit Private palazzo gallery with Old Master paintings and richly decorated state rooms.
Keats-Shelley House
1 hour · typical visit Small literary museum in the house where poet John Keats died in 1821.
MAXXI
2 hours · typical visit National museum of twenty-first-century art and architecture in a flowing Zaha Hadid building.
Museum of the Walls
1 hour 15 minutes · typical visit Small museum inside an Aurelian gate, with access to sections of the ancient city wall.
Palazzo Barberini
1 hour 30 minutes · typical visit Baroque palace housing part of Italy’s National Galleries of Ancient Art.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
2 hours · typical visit National Roman Museum branch with sculpture, mosaics, frescoes and ancient luxury objects.
Trajan's Markets
1 hour 30 minutes · typical visit Multi-level Roman complex housing the Museum of the Imperial Fora.
Vatican Museums
3 hours 30 minutes · typical visit Vast papal collections leading through decorated galleries to the Sistine Chapel.
Villa Farnesina
1 hour 15 minutes · typical visit Renaissance villa decorated with frescoes by Raphael and other leading artists.
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Ready-made trips through Rome
Rome: Ancient City and Baroque Centre
2 days · 5 stops · Moderate pace
Spend two days exploring ancient Rome, from the Colosseum and Roman Forum to the Pantheon and the city’s great Baroque squares.
Tivoli and Northern Lazio
4 days · 4 stops · Moderate pace
Explore four distinct layers of Lazio: Villa d’Este’s water gardens, Hadrian’s Villa, the ruins of Ostia Antica and the hill town of Civita di Bagnoregio.