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Listed below are only some of the most important museums and monuments in Rome: |
ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS
Musei Capitolini
Musei Capitolini
The most antique public collection of the world, including sculptures of great value, like the Galata Morente and the Venere Capitolina. In the Paintings Gallery there are works of art from the 14th to the 17th century, by Tiziano, Bellini, Caravaggio.
Piazza del Campidoglio 1 - tel. 0667102475 / fax 066785488.
Opening time: 9am-8pm, closet on Mondays.
Entrance fee: € 6,50.
Reservations: tel. 0682059127
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
A splendid villa is the location of this museum, with a relevant collection of pre-Roman art from the Etruscan and Faliscan civilizations.
Piazzale di Villa Giulia 9 – tel. 063226571.
Opening time: 8.30am–7.30pm, closed on Mondays, on the 25th of December and the 1st of January.
Entrance fee: € 4,00
Reservations: tel. 06824620
Museo Nazionale Romano
One of the most important archeological collection of the world, distributed in five different sites.
Combined tickets avalaible:
Museo Nazionale Romano from € 7,00-reduced € 3,00, 3 days validity for all Museum sites;
Archeologia card from € 20,00, 7 days validity, including also the entrance to the Colosseo, Palatino, Terme di Caracalla, Tomba di Cecilia Metella, Villa dei Quintili.
Opening time: from Monday to Saturday 9am-1.30pm / 2.30pm-5pm
Reservation: tel. 0639967700
MODERN MUSEUMS
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
Galleria Doria Pamphili
A very important private collection of paintings and sculptures, by Italian and foreign artists: Velazquez, Tiziano, Bernini, Caravaggio, Andrea del Sarto.
Piazza del Collegio Romano 2 – tel. 066797323
Opening time: 10am-5pm, closed on Thursdays
Entrance fee: € 8,00 including audioguide
Info and reservations: www.ticketeria.it
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)
Undoubtedly the greatest collection of paintings, sculptures and works of art mostly by Italian artists, dating from 19th century up to the present.
Viale delle Belle Arti 131 - tel. 06322981
Opening time: 8.30am-7.30pm, closed on Mondays.
Entrance fee: € 6,50
Reservations: tel. 06322981
Macro - Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Italian Art since 1946 up to the present days.
Via Reggio Emilia 54 - tel. 06 671070400/ fax 06 8554090
Opening time: 9am-7pm, closed on Mondays
Entrance fee: € 1,00
Museo Ebraico di Roma
Many interesting objects connected to the Jewish religion. Historical documents about the relationship between the Italian Jewish Community and Italy, and about Nazi persecution.
Comunitá Ebraica, Sinagogue, Lungotevere Cenci – tel. 0668400661
Opening time: Sunday to Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-2pm (from June to September 10am-8pm). Closed on Sundays and Jewish feasts.
Entrance fee: € 7,50.
Free entrance for children below 10.
Museo Nazionale dell'Alto Medioevo
This recently founded museum (1967) displays a collection of archaeological material from excavations, dating from the late antiquity and the middle age (4th-13th centuries).
Viale Lincoln 3 (EUR) - tel. 0654228199 / fax 06 54228130
Opening time: 9am-8pm, closed on Mondays.
Entrance fee: € 2,00
Museo del Risorgimento
This museum is part of the monument, so-called the Vittoriano, to the king Vittorio Emanuele II. There are displayed paintings, sculptures, drawings about the period between the Italian Risorgimento and the First World War.
Via San Pietro in Carcere - tel. 066793598 / fax 066782572
Opening time: 9.30am-6pm.
Free entrance
Museo e Galleria Borghese
In this splendid and recently restored villa, dating from 1613-14, the Cardinal Scipione Borghese collected many works of art, paintings and sculptures putting together a unique collection of masterpieces by Bernini , Canova, Caravaggio, Tiziano, Rubens.
Piazzale del Museo Borghese – tel. 068417645
Opening time: 9am-7pm, closed on Mondays.
Entrance fee: € 6,50
Compulsory reservation: tel. 06328101/fax 0632651329 – Reservation fee € 2,00.
Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo
It was built by the Emperor Adriano to be his and his family mausoleum, Castel Sant’Angelo became a fortress and after that a prison. Today it is the seat of an important artistic and military museum.
Lungotevere Castello 50 - tel. 066819111
Opening time: 9am-7.30pm, closed on Mondays.
Entrance fee: € 5,00
Reservation: tel. 0639967600
Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma
This museum was set up in the former headquarter of the SS Kommandantur, where some key-members of the Roman Resistance were imprisoned, interrogated and tortured and most of them lost there their lives.
Via Tasso 145 - tel./fax 067003866
Opening time: 4pm-7pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; 9.30am-12.30pm on Sundays; closed on Mondays.
Free entrance
Musei Vaticani
One of the most important Museums of the world, it is presented in various sections containing masterpieces by famous artists collected during the centuries by the Popes. At the end of the tour there is the amazing Cappella Sistina, recently restored with the original amazing colours so that now Michelangelo’s fresco is finally uncovered.
Viale Vaticano - tel. 0669883332 / fax 0669885061
Opening time: from the 7th of January to the 1st of March and from the 2nd of November to the 24th of December 10am-1.35pm / from the 1st of March to the 29th of October and from the 27th of October to the 6th of January 10am-4.45pm, Saturday 10am-2.45pm, closed on Sunday.
Closed on 1st and 6th of January, on 11th of February, on 19th of March, on Monday after Easter, on 1st and 20th of May, on 10th and 29th of June, on 14th and 15th of August, on 1st of November, on 8th,25th, 26th of December.
Entrance fee: € 13,00, reduced € 8,00, including the entrance to the Museo Storico Vaticano.
Free entrance on the last Sunday of the month, opening time 9am-1.45pm.
Reservation, information, guided tours: tel. 0669884676 / fax 0669885100.
MONUMENTS
Colosseo (Anfiteatro Flavio)
This amphitheatre, which is undoubtedly the most important symbol of ancient Rome, was the place for fights between gladiators and ferocious animals. It was divided into four levels of seats and it contained more than fifty thousand people.
Piazza del Colosseo
Opening time: 9am-1hour before sunset.
Entrance fee: € 9,00 + € 2,00 exhibition supplement (valid for the Palatino).
Reservation: tel. 0639967700, compulsory reservation for 14 people groups, including free audioguide
Foro Romano
The Forum was the political, economic and religious centre of ancient Rome, site of temples, courts, public and private business buildings.
Via dei Fori Imperiali
Opening time: 9am-1hour before sunset
Free entrance
Reservations, guided tours: tel. 0639967700
Terme di Caracalla
The most luxurious and beautiful bath in ancient Rome, equipped with sophisticated water system, it could serve more than 1600 people at the same time.
Via delle Terme di Caracalla 52
Opening time: 9am-1hour before sunset
Entrance fee: Appia Antica card € 6,00 – Archeologia card € 20,00
Reservations: tel. 0639967700 – www.pierreci.it
Ara Pacis Augustae
A monumental altar erected in 13-19 b. C. to celebrate the peace established by Augustus in the whole Roman Empire.
Lungotevere in Augusta - Tel. 0682059127 - www.arapacis.it
Opening time: from Tuesday to Sunday 9am-7pm, closed on Mondays, on 25th of December, on 1st of January, on 1st of May / 9am-2pm on 24th and 31st of December
Entrance fee: € 6,50, reduced € 3,00
Guided tours for groups.
Ostia Antica
These impressive remains of the Roman settlements used to be the military fort to protect the river entrance as well as the shipyard and the meeting point for the Roman fleet and food storage centre.
Ostia Antica, Viale dei Romagnoli 717 - tel. 0656358099 / fax 065651500
E-mail: ostia@arti.beniculturali.it
Web site: www.itnw.roma.it/ostia/scavi
Opening time: 8.30am-4pm on winter, 9am-6pm in summer, closed on Mondays.
Entrance fee: € 6,50
Note: Porto di Traiano archeological area, Via Portuense, and S. Ercolano chapel at the Ostia Antica cemetery, can be visited on request to be addressed to the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia - tel. 066501089/066529192
Vittoriano
This monument was unveiled in 1911 to be dedicated to the King Vittorio Emanuele II, today it contains the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and it is completely open to the public, its terraces as well as its internal rooms (Sacrario delle Bandiere, Museo del Risorgimento).
Piazza Venezia - tel. 066991718
Opening time: 9.30am-4.30pm in winter, 9.30am-5.30pm in summer
Free entrance |
