The best selected landmarks of Rome to travel around
The City of Rome is a unique and straightway center of attraction in Italy and once you are there you would never go to miss out special places of attraction. The city is very rich in monuments, churches, museums, art galleries, parks and gardens, shopping areas, theatre, cinemas and historic landmarks, below are briefed some of those special places of attraction
• Castel Sant’Angelo: The Mausoleum of Hadrian, better recognized as the Castel Sant’Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Rome. The building in the start was made by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for him and his family. But later on building was being used as a fortress and castle and presently is reputed as a museum. The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also known to be Hadrian’s mole was constructed on the right bank of the Tiber, in period passing from 135 AD and 139 AD. Originally the mausoleum was an ornamented cylinder, with a huge garden top and golden quadriga. Hadrian’s ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138 AD, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who too died in 138 AD. After that the remains of succeeding emperors too are located here with last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217 AD.
• Chamber of Deputies: The Italian Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy constituted of 630 seats, a plurality and is presently holds by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom. Deputies meet in the Palazzo Montecitorio. A member of the Chamber of Deputies has the style of onorevole (honorable). Its current president is Gianfranco Fini, from the People of Freedom party.
• Piazza Navona: It is a city square in Rome, Italy and is constructed on the site of Stadium of Domitian, it was made around first century AD in form of open space of a stadium. Centuries before Romans used to come here to see games so it is known as “Circus Agonalis”. Over the span of time the name changed to ‘in agone’ to ‘navone’ and later to ‘navona’. It being started as called public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio. The Piazza Navona is a pleasing example of Baroque Roman architecture and art. Other important building in Piazza Navona are Stabilimenti Spagnoli, Palazzo de Cupis, Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti, Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore, Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma)
• Pallazzo Barberini: Palazzo Barberini is a palace in Rome, central Italy, on the piazza of the same name in Rione Trevi and is home to the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica. The sloping site had formerly been occupied by a garden-vineyard of the Sforza family, in which a palazzetto had been built in 1549. The sloping site had passed from one cardinal to another during the sixteenth century, with no project fully getting off the ground.
• Piazza del Campidoglio: The Capitoline Hill situated between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome. By passing the 16th century Capitoline had a few ancient ground-level ruins, completely covered by Medieval and Renaissance palaces around a piazza and its urban plan was designed by Michelangelo. The hill was the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad, started by Rome’s fifth king, Tarquin the Elder. The city legend says that there a recovery of a human skull occurred when foundation trenches were dug out for the Temple of Jupiter by Tarquin’s order.
• Palazzo Senatorio: Constructed around the 13th and 14th century, the Palazzo Senatorio stands at the top of the Tabularium where in past there existed archives of ancient Rome. Peperino blocks from the Tabularium were it was re-used on the left side of the palace and at a corner of the bell tower. It presently keeps there the Roman city hall. Its double ramp stair case was conceived by Michelangelo. The fountain in front of the staircase constitutes the river gods of the Tiber and the Nile as well as Dea Roma (Minerva).
• Ponte Vittorio Emanuele: It is a very interesting and attractive bridge that spreads from Tiber River in Rome Italy. It binds central Rome to an area located at west of Vatican City. There dome of St. Peter’s cathedral can be seen at its background and vicinity.
• Spanish Steps: These set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna and at the base and Piazza Trinita dei Monti under the influence of the church of Trinita dei Monti. It is the longest and the widest staircase in Europe. The monumental stairway of 138 steps was constructed by French diplomat Étienne Gueffier’s bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, connecting the Bourbon Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, and till now is situated below the Trinità dei Monti the church which was the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France. .
• Trevi Fountain: The fountain is located at the end portion of the Aqua Virgo and was constructed around in 19 BC. It carries water from the Salone Springs and supplies it to the fountains at the historic center of Rome with water. In 1732, Pope Clement XII commissioned Nicola Salvi to make a huge at the Trevi Square. The Restive Sea Horse at Trevi Fountain in central attraction to its development and construction. The central figure of the fountain, in front of a large niche, is Neptune, god of the sea. He is riding on his chariot in the shape of a shell, pulled by two sea horses and each of the sea horse is guided by a Triton. The water at the bottom of the fountain represents the sea and it is legend that if you are traveling to Rome than you should throw coin into the water by tossing it over your shoulder with back along to the fountain.