Appian Way
Via Appia Antica, 00179 Roma
This road is twenty-three hundred years old, and you can still walk on the original stones.
Basilica di San Clemente
Via Labicana, 95, 00184 Roma
This place is a layer cake of Roman history, and you can physically walk down through it.
Baths of Caracalla
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 52, 00153 Roma
These were not baths.
Capitoline Museums
1 Piazza del Campidoglio, I Municipio, Rome, 00186, Italy
This is the oldest public museum in the world.
Catacombs of San Callisto
110 Via Appia Antica, XI Municipio, Rome, 00179, Italy
Twenty metres below the Appian Way, there are twenty kilometres of tunnels carved from soft volcanic tufa rock, stacked four levels deep, containing the remains of an estimated half a million people.
Circus Maximus
1 Via del Circo Massimo, I Municipio, Rome, 00153, Italy
This grassy depression was once the largest stadium in the world, and it was not even close.
Colosseum
1 Piazza del Colosseo, I Municipio, Rome, 00184, Italy
Here is a number that should stop you in your tracks: fifty thousand.
Mouth of Truth
I Municipio, Rome, Italy
The Bocca della Verita is a massive marble disc, about one point eight metres in diameter, depicting a river god or possibly Oceanus, with an open mouth that legend says will bite the hand off anyone who tells a lie while their fingers are inside.
Ostia Antica
717 Viale dei Romagnoli, XIII Municipio, Rome, 00119, Italy
If Pompeii had not been buried by a volcano and marketed by centuries of tourism, Ostia Antica would be the most famous Roman ruin in the world.
Palatine Hill
30 Via di San Gregorio, I Municipio, Rome, 00184, Italy
This is where the word palace comes from.
Pantheon
I Municipio, Rome, Italy
The dome above your head is still, after nearly nineteen hundred years, the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built.
Roman Forum
5 Largo della Salara Vecchia, I Municipio, Rome, 00186, Italy
For about five hundred years, this was the centre of the Western world.
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