The museum is housed in a former beer company.
Macro is the reference point for contemporary art circle in Rome. The splendid exhibition center  house the creations of Italian artists of international fame, in a period that goes from the sixties to today. 

Macro Future hosts programs and exhibit attentive to new trends, multimedia arts and the talent of new generation artists. It is located in a fromer slaughterhouse.

Established in 1925, the art gallery documents the artistic scene in Rome and Italy from the end of the 19th century to the post-war period.  A section is dedicated to internazional artists of the 20th century too. Sculptures, paintings and graphics. I'm not a 'modern art addicted', but i really like it.
Very nice and elegant Coffe shop and bistrot. Immersed in the Borghese park. A good idea is visiting the Pietro Canonica museum  or the Etruscan museum of Villa Giulia nearby.

The museum is dedicated to the late 19th century artist Pietro Canonica and housed in his former home.
This small but precious museum, located in the heart of a bourgeois villa provides  suggesting late-century atmospheres.
A sculptor of international fame, passionate about music and composer himself, spent a long time at the courts of Europe where the aristocracy commissioned portraits and memorial monuments. He moved to Rome in 1922 and managed to get permission from the municipality to use this building as his own home-studio. In return, the artist commits himself to donate, after death, all the works collected there over the years to become a museum named after him.

​Originally built on the site where St. Peter was martyred and buried.

The early Christian church built by Constantine lasted many years. Between 1506 and 1626 it was entirely reconstructed by the masters of the Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo with its dome and Pietà, Maderno’s façade, Giotto’s mosaic, Bernini’s canopy and square.

​The TREASURE ROOMS house a collection of relics, vestments and precious object. Below the church are remains of the ancient basilica, the tomb of St.Peter and those of the popes.

​Built during the time of Constantine, it has often been restored and transformed and was completely rebuilt by Borromini in 1650.

The basilica is the cathedral of Rome and the mother church of the catholic world. The central bronze gate in the portico is from the ancient Curia of the Roman Forum.

There’s  a fresco attributed to Giotto and, across the square is the SCALA SANTA (The Holy staircase) believed to be from Pilate’s House and which was trod on by Christ in Jerusalem. The original marble steps are covered with wood and are climbed by Roman catholics on their knees.

The original basilica was erected by Costantine over the apostle’s tomb  and was embellished during succeeding centuries.

However, it burned down in 1823. Little remains of the original basilica.

​The present one is the second largest in rome after St.Peter’s . Noteworthy   are the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament  by Carlo Maderno, the apse mosaics and the celebrated altar canopy  by Arnolfo di Cambio, the cloister and the paschal candlestick, the original 11th century door, from Constantinople

The largest Roman church dedicated to the Virgin Mary dates from the time of Sixtus III (432-40).
Major restorations and changes are from the middle of the 16th century although from the 13th to the 14th centuries the portico was added the campanile (the highest of the roman campaniles) was built and the tribuna enlarged.
Not to be missed are the precious 5th century mosaics (36 panels above the architrave and those in the triumphal arch), the relic of the holy crib, the Sforza Chapel by Michelangelo but built by Giacomo della Porta.
It is said that the gold used for the ceiling was the first brought back from America by Columbus.

One of the most interesting churches in Rome, which has mystified archaeologist for centuries.

It seems that the original sanctuary on the site was a mortuary chapel erected in the 4th century by Emperor  Constantine over the tomb of St. Lawrence.

In the 6th century pope Pelagius II built a new basilica that was modified in the 13th century by pope Honorius III The triumphal arch, with 6th century mosaics,on its inner face, divides the two architectural periods.
Noteworthy are the fluted Corinthian columns, the 12th century campanile and the two 13th century ambos, the 12th century cloister, one of the most beautiful in Rome.
​The basilica was bombed during World War II. 

It is traditionally believed that this basilica was created by Emperor Constantine's mother around 320 AD to hold the relics of the Holy Cross brought back from the Holy Land by St. Helena, Constantine’s mother.

The church was converted from a wing of the nearby imperial palace. Restored in 1144, when the Romanesque bell  tower was added, and rebuilt in in 1743.

It contains two beautiful water stoops, a tomb by Iacopo Sansovino, a fresco by Antoniazzo Romano, a magnificent mosaic in the Chapel of St. Helena. In the Chapel of the Relics there are fragments from the Cross, a nail and two thorns from the Crown.

​Originally dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul, the basilica was buit in the early 4th century over the cemetery  where the remains of the apostles had temporarily laid. It is one of the basilicas built by Emperor Constantine.

It later became the shrine for Saint Sebastian, a roman soldier martyred under Emperor Diocletian, who was buried in the church catacombs (see Saint Sebastian catacombs).

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Built in 1626 for Cardinal Barberini, it contains  a  celebrated  painting by Guido Reni  and in the sacristy a painting of St. Francis by Caravaggio.

​The church is most famous for its six underground chapels of the crypt arranged as a cemetery and containing a macabre decoration of skulls and bones of 4000 Capuchin monks. 

​The small church of Domine Quo Vadis (Lord, where’re you going?) marks the spot where, according to tradition, Christ appeared to St.Peter  fleeing from Rome to escape Nero’s persecution.

​Already existing in the 9th century , the church was rebuilt in the 17th century 

The main church of the Jesuits was begun by Vignola in 1568, while the façade and cupola are by Giacomo Della Porta. 

The church has an incredible baroque ceiling by Baciccia.
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Magnificent is the chapel in lapis lazuli of St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuit order, who is buried under the altar. 

Begun  by the Rainaldi  brothers in 1652 was completed by Borromini who also designed the concave facade, the dome and the belfries.

The walls below the church were a part of the Domitian stadium and fragments of the roman pavement are still visible.

​The church was built over the site believed to be the place where the saint was martyred.

​Built in 342 by Constantia, daughter of Constantine the Great , over the catacombs which contained the relics of the Saint.
Rebuilt and enlarged by Honorius I (625-38), the basilica was thereafter restored several times. Nonetheless , it is one of the best examples of an antique Christian basilica.

The 7th century mosaics in the apse is one of the finest example of Byzantine art in Rome. Each year on January 21 two lambs are blessed in the churc, then blessed again by the Pope before being given to the nuns of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere who make archbishops’ palliums from the wool. In the left nave is the entrance to the catacombs (see Santa Agnese catacombs).

The Church date back to the 15th century, the interior was remodeled during the 18th century.

Noteworthy are the high altar by Bernini, the fresco of Isaiah by Raphael , the Madonna dei Pellegrini by Caravaggio, and the sculpture by Sansovino of the Madonna del Parto.

Already existing during the 12th century.

The reconstruction begun by Guerra in 1612 was continued by Borromini who is responsible for the dome, the bell tower and the apse.

The two angels on either side of the apse are by Bernini.

​It was designed by Bernini  (1658-71) and it’s his last important work.

Famous for its oval plan, always compared to the nearby San Carlino by Borromini, both considered masterpieces of Baroque architecture.

Begun by Della Porta in 1591, and continued by Maderno in 1608, who also designed the dome, which is the second highest and largest in diameter after  St. Peter’s.

The church contains frescoes by Domenichino and is known as the scene of one of the acts from the opera La Tosca  

The basilica was erected in the 6th century to celebrate the defeat of the Goths.

Damaged several times by floods and earthquakes, was restored at the end of the 8th century and renovated  completely at the end of the 9th .

At the beginning of the 18th century there was a wide-scale reconstruction and in 1827 the architect Valadier created the façade existing today. In the left nave is an early sculpture by Antonio Canova.

The most original of Borromini’s works and his first autonomous creation.

​Begun in 1638 and completed in 1667, the church was designed to cover the same dimensions as only one of the piers which support St. Peter‘s  dome.

​Built before the 4th century over the house of St. Cecilia. Rebuilt during the 9th, 12th, 16th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
The façade has ancient columns and a 12th century bell tower.

The crypt leads to the ancient Roman construction below. In the adjacent convent is the Last Judgment, a famous fresco by Pietro Cavallini dating back to 1293. The cloister dates from the 12th century.

Built prior to 365 A.D. this church is one of the most interesting in Rome.

Originally constructed over Roman buildings, it now consists of two churches, a lower and a upper.

The latter was built over the earlier construction –where pagan and Christian structures overlap – during the 12th century after a Norman invasion had destroyed the original one.
Medieval frescoes from the 8th to the 12th centuries and a well-preserved Mithraeum  lies below the actual church decorated with a 12th century mosaic of the Triumph of the Cross.

Consists of two structures: the library of Vespasian’s Forum of Peace and a 4th century  structure built by emperor Maxentius, joined together in 527.

The church was restored several times during the middle ages and again in 1632.

Important 6th century mosaics on the triumphal arch and in the apse.