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- Home
- Personalised Tours
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- Rome
- Images
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St Peter's Basilica
- Altars >
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Monuments
>
- Countess Matilda of Canossa
- Maria Clementina Sobieska
- Queen Christina of Sweden
- Pope Innocent VIII
- Pope Paul III
- Pope Gregory XIII
- Pope Gregory XIV
- Pope Leo XI
- Pope Urban VIII
- Pope Alexander VII
- Pope Clement X
- Pope Innocent XI
- Pope Alexander VIII
- Pope Innocent XII
- Pope Benedict XIV
- Pope Clement XIII
- Pope Pius VII
- Pope Leo XII
- Pope Pius VIII
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- Pope Pius X
- Pope Benedict XV
- Pope Pius XI
- Pope Pius XII
- Pope John XXIII
- The Stuarts
- Portico >
- Pieta
- Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament
- Cathedra Petri
- Crossing >
- St Peter
- Chapel of the Choir
- Chapel of the Baptistery
- Nave
- Sistine Chapel
-
Fountains
- Trevi Fountain
- Fontana della Barcaccia
- Fountain of the Triton
- Fountain of the Bees
- Fountain of Moses
- Fountain of the Four Rivers
- Fountain of the Acqua Paola
- Fountain of the Turtles
- Fountain of the Naiads
- Fountain of the Cannonball
- Fountain of the Four Lions
- Fountain of the Pantheon
- Fountains of Piazza Farnese
- Fountain of the Goddess Roma
- Rioni Fountains
- Street Fountains
- Venice Marries the Sea
- Fountains of St Peter's Square
- Fountain of the Moor
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountain of the Porter
- Fountain of the Seahorses
-
Churches
- Chiesa del Gesù >
- Chiesa Nuova
- Lateran Baptistery
- San Bartolomeo all' Isola
- San Carlo ai Catinari
- San Carlo al Corso
- San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
- San Clemente >
- San Crisogono
- San Francesco a Ripa >
- San Giorgio in Velabro
- San Giovanni a Porta Latina
- San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
- San Giovanni in Laterano >
- San Girolamo della Carità >
- San Gregorio Magno
- San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
- San Lorenzo in Damaso
- San Lorenzo in Lucina
- San Luigi dei Francesi >
- San Marco
- San Pancrazio
- San Paolo fuori le Mura
- San Pietro in Montorio
- San Pietro in Vincoli
- San Saba
- San Sebastiano fuori le Mura >
- San Silvestro in Capite
- San Vitale
- Sant' Agnese fuori le Mura
- Sant' Agnese in Agone
- Sant' Agostino
- Sant' Anastasia
- Sant' Andrea del Quirinale
- Sant' Andrea della Valle
- Sant' Andrea delle Fratte
- Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi
- Sant' Ignazio di Loyola
- Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza
- Santa Caterina dei Funari
- Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
- Santa Costanza
- Santa Croce in Gerusalemme >
- Santa Francesca Romana
- Santa Maria degli Angeli
- Santa Maria del Popolo >
- Santa Maria della Pace >
- Santa Maria della Vittoria >
- Santa Maria dell' Anima
- Santa Maria dell' Orazione e Morte
- Santa Maria dell' Orto
- Santa Maria di Loreto
- Santa Maria in Aracoeli >
- Santa Maria in Campitelli
- Santa Maria in Cosmedin
- Santa Maria in Domnica
- Santa Maria in Trastevere >
- Santa Maria in Via
- Santa Maria Maddalena
- Santa Maria Maggiore >
- Santa Maria sopra Minerva >
- Santa Prassede
- Santa Sabina >
- Santa Susanna
- Santi Apostoli
- Santi Cosma e Damiano
- Santi Domenico e Sisto
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Santi Luca e Martina
- Santi Nereo e Achilleo
- Santi Quattro Coronati
- Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli
- Santissima Trinità di Monti
- Santissimo Nome di Maria
- Forum
-
Ancient Monuments
- Ara Pacis
- Arch of Constantine
- Arch of the Money-Changers
- Arch of Janus
- Aurelian Walls
- Baths of Caracalla
- Castel Sant' Angelo
- Catacombs of Domitilla
- Circus Maxentius
- Circus Maximus
- Colosseum
- Column of Marcus Aurelius
- Column of Trajan
- Forum of Trajan
- Mausoleum of Augustus
- Pantheon
- Ponte Fabricio
- Ponte Sant' Angelo
- Porta Maggiore
- Porta San Paolo
- Porta San Sebastiano
- Portico of Octavia
- Pyramid of Cestius
- Temple of Hadrian
- Temple of Hercules
- Temple of Mars Ultor
- Temple of Portunus
- Theatre of Marcellus
- Tomb of Caecilia Metella
- Via Appia
-
Obelisks
- 'Minerveo' Obelisk
- 'Flaminio' Obelisk
- 'Matteiano' Obelisk
- 'Lateran' Obelisk
- 'Dogali' Obelisk
- 'Macuteo' Obelisk
- 'Solare' Obelisk
- 'Vatican' Obelisk
- 'Agonalis' Obelisk
- 'Sallustiano' Obelisk
- 'Quirinale' Obelisk
- 'Esquiline' Obelisk
- 'Pinciano' Obelisk
- 'Mediceo' Obelisk
- 'Torlonia' Obelisks
- 'Mussolini' Obelisk
- 'Marconi' Obelisk
- Mosaics
- Gallery
- Vatican Museums
- Palazzi
- Galleries & Museums
- Piazzas
- Miscellaneous
- Rioni