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Roman Buildings

Key Roman Buildings & Spaces

The Pantheon
The Vatican: St Peter’s + Piazza San Pietro + Sistine Chapel
Colosseum
St John Lateran
Piazza Navona
Forum Romanum
Campigolio

All Rome building photographs © Adrian Welch

Ten Key Buildings & Spaces in more detail

1. The Pantheon
Dates built: 118-128AD
Built for Hadrian

photo © Adrian Welch

2. The Vatican: St Peter’s Basilica + St Peter’s Square + Sistine Chapel
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San Pietro : St Peter’s Basilica
St Peters façade
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Carlo Maderno

Piazza San Pietro : St Peter’s Square
Dates built: 1656-67
Bernini

Palazzi e Musei Vaticani

The Vatican

3. Colosseo – Colosseum, Campitelli
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photos © Adrian Welch

4. St John Lateran – Santa Giovanni in Laterano, Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano, southeast Rome
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5. Piazza del Campidoglio – Capitol Square, Monte Capitolino
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Michelangelo

6. Forum Romanum – Roman Forum
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7. Santa Maria Maggiore – Basilica of St Mary Major
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8. Gesù – Gesu church, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
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9. Castel S.Angelo – Hadrian’s Mausoleum
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10. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Date built: 1638
Borromini

Other Key Buildings, Structures & Spaces, alphabetical

Arco di Constantino – Constantine’s Arch
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Arco di Giano
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Ara Pacis Augustae – Museum
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New Museum wraps around Ara Pacis, on the River Tiber north of the Piazza Navona

Imperial Fora
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Museo Borghese
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Museo Nazionale Romano, adj. Santa Maria degli Angeli, northeast Rome
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Palazzo Barberini
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Palazzo Borghese
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Palazzo dei Conservatori, off Piazza del Campidoglio, Monte Capitolino
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Palazzo di Cancellaria
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near Campo dei Fiori, south of Piazza Navona

Palazzo di Montecitorio, Piazza Colonna, Via del Corso
1650-97
Bernini ; Carlo Fontana

Palazzo di Quirinale, Piazza di Quirinale, northeast Rome
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Palazzo d. Ass. Gen. Di Venezia
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opposite famous Palazzo Venezia, Piazza Venezia

Palazzo Venezia, Piazza Venezia
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photograph © Adrian Welch

Palazzo Farnese
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Palazzo Giustizia, just east of Castel S.Angelo
Date built: 1910
Design: Calderini

photograph © Adrian Welch

Palazzo Lateranense, Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano, southeast Rome
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Palazzo Massimo
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photograph © Adrian Welch

Palazzo Senatorio, off Piazza del Campidoglio, Monte Capitolino
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Palazzo Nuovo, off Piazza del Campidoglio, Monte Capitolino
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Porta del Popolo, north side of Piazza del Popolo
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Sant’ Agostino – Saint Augustine’s Church, northwest of Piazza Navona
Date built: 1783

Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale
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Bernini

Sant’ Andrea di Valle – St Andrew’s church, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
Date built: Façade 1655-65 by Carlo Rainaldi

San Carlo ai Catinari, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
Date built: Façade 1635-38

photograph © Adrian Welch

San Ignazio
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east of the Pantheon

San Luigi dei Francesi
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just east of Piazza Navona

San Marcelllo, Via del Corso
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Santa Maria degli Angeli, northeast Rome
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Michelangelo; Vanvitelli

Santa Maria della Pace, northeast of Piazza Navona
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Santa Maria d’Aracœli, adj. Vittoriano, Monte Capitolino
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Santa Maria di Loreto
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Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Piazza del Popolo / Via del Corso
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twin church with Santa Maria di Montesanto

Santa Maria di Montesanto, Piazza del Popolo / Via del Corso
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twin church with Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Santa Maria di Popolo, Piazza del Popolo
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contains famous Caravaggio

Santa Maria di Vittorio
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Santa Maria in Cosmedin, south Rome
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Santa Maria Maddalena – St Mary Magdalen, Piazza di Maddalena
Date built: Façade – 1735: Giuseppe Sardi

follow Pantheon link above

Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
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Large Baroque church just east of the Pantheon

San Martino Al Monti
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SS Nome di Maria, adj. Trajan’s Forum
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San Pietro in Vincoli – St Paul without the Walls
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Santa Pudenziana
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one of the oldest churches in Rome, southwest of Santa Maria Maggiore

Santa Susanna facade
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Carlo Maderno

Teatro di Marcello – Marcellus’ Theatre
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Terme di Carcalla – Baths of Caracalla
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Trinita dei Monti
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Villa Farnesina
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Villa Medici
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Vittoriano – Victor Emmmanuel II Monument
Dates built: 1884/85-1911
Giuseppe Sacconi

Roman Buildings – Key Public Spaces

Area Sacra, Largo Argentina, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
ancient roman remains, various centuries

Campo de’ Fiori

Circo Massimo – Circus Maximus, southeast Rome

former home of chariot racing

Fontane di Trevi – Trevi Fountain

Forum Traiano – Trajan’s Forum

Piazza Colonna, Via del Corso
Column erected 2nd C AD – honours Marcus Aurelius

Piazza della Rotunda – facing The Pantheon, in the centre of the city

Piazza del Campidoglio, Monte Capitolino

Piazza di Quirinale, northeast Rome

Piazza di Montecitorio
Obelisk
Date built: 6th C BC, erected 1792

Piazza di Spagna

Piazza Navona

Scalla della Trinita dei Monti – Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna
Date built: 1726

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E.U.R. – area of rationalist buildings, south Rome

Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna, north of central Rome

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Tuscolano Museum Rome architect : Massimiliano Fuksas

Jubilee Church Rome architect : Richard Meier

British Embassy Rome architect : Basil Spence

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