The Colosseum, originally known as Amphitheatrum Flavium or simply as Amphitheatrum, is the largest amphitheater in the world, located in the center of the city of Rome. Able to contain an estimated number of spectators between 50,000 and 75,000 units, it is the most important Roman amphitheater, and the most impressive monument of ancient Rome that has come down to us, known throughout the world as a symbol of the city of Rome and one of the symbols of Italy.
The Vatican Museums are located in Viale Vaticano in Rome, within the Vatican City State. Founded by Pope Julius II in the sixteenth century, they occupy a large part of the vast Belvedere courtyard and are one of the largest art collections in the world, as they exhibit the enormous collection of works of art accumulated over the centuries by Papi: the Sistine Chapel and the papal apartments frescoed by Michelangelo and Raphael are part of the works that visitors can admire in their journey.
The Baths of Caracalla or Antoninian (in Latin: Thermae Antoninianae, from the full name of the emperor Caracalla, belonging to the Severi dynasty) constitute one of the most magnificent examples of imperial baths in Rome, still preserved for most of their structure and free from modern buildings. They were built by the emperor on the Piccolo Aventino between 212 and 216 AD in an area adjacent to the initial stretch of the Appian Way, about 400 m outside the ancient Capena gate and just south of the venerated Camene forest.
The Imperial Forums constitute a series of monumental squares built over a century and a half (between 46 BC and 113 AD) in the heart of the city of Rome by the emperors. The Roman Forum, that is the old Republican square, whose first arrangement dates back to the royal age (VI century BC) and which had been for centuries the political, religious and economic center of the city, but which did not have never a unitary character.
The National Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II or (Mole del) Vittoriano, improperly called Altare della Patria, is an Italian national monumental complex located in Rome in Piazza Venezia, on the northern slope of the Campidoglio hill, designed by the architects Ettore Ferrari, Pio Piacentini and Giuseppe Sacconi. It was built starting in 1885, with works that ended in 1935.
The Galleria Borghese is located in the Piazzale of the Borghese Museum 5, inside Villa Borghese Pinciana in Rome, Italy. The museum displays works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Agnolo Bronzino, Antonio Canova, Caravaggio, Raphael, Perugino, Lorenzo Lotto, Antonello da Messina, Cranach, Annibale Carracci, Pieter Paul Rubens, Bellini, Tiziano. It can be considered unique in the world as regards the number and importance of Bernini’s sculptures and Caravaggio’s paintings.
