6 Hidden Gems in Rome Most People Walk Right Past
6 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Aventine Keyhole
Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 00153 Roma
There is a green door on the Aventine Hill, at the top of a quiet, orange-tree-scented lane, and if you put your eye to the keyhole you will see one of the most perfectly composed views in the world.
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.
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
131 Viale delle Belle Arti, II Municipio, Rome, 00197, Italy
Everyone comes to Rome for ancient art and Renaissance masterpieces, which means almost nobody visits the national gallery of modern and contemporary art, and that is a mistake.
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.
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
305 Via del Corso, I Municipio, Rome, 00186, Italy
There is a painting in this palace that terrified the man it depicts.
Protestant Cemetery
6 Via Caio Cestio, I Municipio, Rome, 00153, Italy
Oscar Wilde called this "the holiest place in Rome.
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