Art and Culture

Work on Castel Sant'Angelo started in 123 A.D. as a tomb for the Emperor Hadrian. Over the centuries it has experienced several transformations. Firstly it became a defensive fortress, then, ...

The Capitolini Museum are considered as the first museum in the history. The collection started with a donation of four of the few bronze statues that we got from the ...

According to ancient tradition, it was on this hill that the first settlement of Rome was made by Romulus in the middle of the eighth century B.C. Excavations have revealed ...

Palazzo Massimo was built at the end of the nineteenth century as the part of a college. Today it forms part of the National Roman Museum. Exhibits are spread across ...

The archaeological Area of Santa Croce in Jerusalem, located just inside the old Aurelian walls of Rome, has been recently reopened to the public, making it possible to admire an ...

Inaugurated in 1912 the Centrale Montemartini was the first public electric plant in Rome and today it houses a museum which displays statues and sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome ...