Art and Culture

The Thermae Antonianae, one of the largest and best preserved examples of an ancient spa complex, was constructed under the auspices of the Emperor Caracalla in the southern part of ...

Immediately after the fire of 64 A.D., which destroyed large parts of the centre of Rome, the emperor Nero ordered the construction of a new residence, much grander and more ...

State property only since 1986, the Villa dei Quintili was the largest and most sumptuous residence of the Roman “suburbium”. The original nucleus belonged to the Quintili brothers, consuls in ...

Discovered by accident in 1936, the Mitreo di Palazzo Barberini (a site dedicated to the Persian God Mithras) this, together with a similar example at S. Prisca, is a rare ...

The Treasury of St. Peter's, which was constituted throughout time with donations made by Popes, Cardinals, Emperors and Kings and by believers of the Christian world to the Vatican ...