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 Via
Veneto
- The Via Vittorio
Veneto starts from the northern end of the Piazza Barberini.
It is a very animated road knot of a trapezoidale form
on a light slope. Several streets go ahead from Via
Veneto: Via del Tritone which goes down up to Largo
Chigi Via Barberini which rises up to...
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 Spanish
Steps
- The Spanish Steps (Scalinata di Spagna) in Rome ramp
a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base
and the church Trinità dei Monti above. The monumental
stairway, of 138 steps, was built with French diplomat
Stefano Gueffier’s funds (20,000 scudi) in...
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 Saint
Peter
- The Basilica of Saint
Peter, officially known in Italian as the Basilica di
San Pietro in Vaticano and colloquially called Saint
Peter's Basilica, ranks second among the five major
basilicas of Rome and its Vatican City enclave. Possibly
the largest church in Christianity, it covers...
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 Sistine
Chapel
- The Sistine Chapel
(Italian: Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Palace
of the Vatican, the official residence of the Roman
Catholic Pope in the Vatican City. It was built between
1475 and 1483, in the time of Pope Sixtus IV, and is
one of the most famous...
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 Piazza
Navona
- Piazza Navona is
a square in Rome, Italy. The Piazza follows the plan
of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st Century Stadium
of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones
("games"): today's name stems from the corruption of
the latter in in agone, then nagone and...
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 Capitoline
Hill
- Michelangelo's design
for Capitoline Hill, now home to the Capitoline Museums.
Engraved by Étienne Dupérac, 1568. The Capitoline Museums
(Italian Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archeological
museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the famous
Capitoline Hill in...
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