Rome center bed and breakfast The Center of Rome is 10 minutes far from the Sculpture Museums located inside the Vatican Museums. The sculptures preserved in these museums, when they are not original Greek works, or by Roman artists or sculptors are Roman copies, more or less faithful, made in the 1st and 2nd centuries […]
In the ambulatory above the walls there are mosaics: ornamental strips and octagons with theatrical figures that make up a floor from the II-III century and busts of divinities, and Greek philosophers of the Roman age. In the passage to the vestibule of the portico we find a bronze bust of Pius XI by Quattrini […]
This ancient church is one of the most beautiful and ancient in the Borgo district and is located near Castel Sant’Angelo. It was demolished to develop and modernize the fortifications then existing and was subsequently rebuilt in the place where there was a pyramid dating back to the ancient Roman period. Santa Maria in Traspontina […]
Bed and Breakfast Rome center named The Center of Rome is close to the Sculpture Museums in the Vatican Museums. The Pontifical Museums and Galleries constitute one of the largest and most important art collections in the world, contained in buildings rich in history and incomparable works of art. In the courtyard of the Palazzetto […]
It is the last great and one of the most spectacular works of papal Rome; the vast space is wisely orchestrated in all aspects: from urban planning to architectural and street furniture. It is connected to the Vatican by Via Cola di Rienzo, one of the most important shopping streets in the center of Rome […]
The Borgo district occupies part of the so-called Ager Vaticanus of ancient Rome, in which Agrippina had numerous possessions. St. Peter had his martyrdom in the circus built by Caligula and the emperor Constantine had the first Vatican church built here. Subsequently and following the numerous pilgrimages, autonomous communities called Scholae were created and settled […]
Starting from The Center of Rome, a facility that houses our B&B in the center of Rome, you can easily reach the magnificent Castel Sant’Angelo. The monument, wanted and probably designed by Emperor Hadrian as a tomb for himself and his successors, was perhaps built by the architect Demetriano. Begun around 123 A.D. and completed […]
Around 1508 Julius II entrusted Raphael, then twenty-five years old, with the pictorial decoration of the so-called Rooms, which are part of the palace of Niccolò V, various painters from the 15th century (including Piero della Francesca) had worked there, and others ( including Perugino, Sodoma, Peruzzi and Lotto) still painted there today. Their works […]
For the treaty of the Lateran, stipulated between the holy see and Italy in 1929, the city of Vatican is an independent state, under the sovereignty of the Pope or supreme Pontiff. It has a population of 1000 inhabitants and a territory of 0.44 km2, limited by the colonnate of S. Pietro, via di Porta […]
The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma was born as “Teatro Costanzi”. Born in Nocera Umbra in 1819 and died in Rome in 1898, Domenico Costanzi was one of the most important entrepreneurs of the era in which Rome, completed the unity of the Italian peninsula, including the islands, was preparing to become its capital. Arrived in […]