TRIPS TO ROME
This is not intended to be a guide to Rome – you might want to buy a book such as “Time Out” or “Lonely Planet” for that. All I have done below is list some of the major monuments and museums in Rome – their addresses and entrance fee. Please note that a great deal of monuments and museums close on Mondays to recharge after the inevitable weekend tourist invasion.
Ara Pacis Museum, lungotevere in Augusta.
Entrance fee is €6.50 06 82059127
Arco di Constantino, Piazza del Colosseo
06 39967700
Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Entrance is €6 and opening hours are 9am til 4.30pm (on Mondays from 9 am til 2 pm) Guided tours only available in Italian.
Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth), in the portico of the Santa Maria Church,piazza Bocca della Verità
Opening hours are from 9am til 6.30pm.
06 32810
Borghese Museum, Piazzale Scipione Borghese.
Opening hours are from 9am til 7pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance is €8.50. Guided tours available in Italian and English
06 67102071
Capitoline Museum, Piazza del Campidoglio
Opening hours are from 9am til 8pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance is €8 plus exhibition supplement. Guided tours only in Italian.
06 39967600
Castel Sant’Angelo, Lungotevere Castello 50
Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, then used as a fortress, prison and palace by the popes – there is a tunnel underneath which leads to the Vatican. Opening hours are from 9am til 8pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance is €5. Guided tours in English and Italian available if you book in advance on 06 39967600.
Circo Massimo (Ancient Rome’s major chariot racing venue), Via del Circo Massimo.
Colosseum, Palatine and Roman Forum ruins
Colosseum: Piazza del Colosseo
Palatine: entrance at Piazza S. Maria Nova 53 and Via S. Gregorio 30 06 39967700
Roman Forum: entrances at Largo Romolo e Remo 5-6 and Piazza S. Maria Nova 53.
For information call 06 39967700. Opening hours are from 9am til 4.30pm. Entrance to the Colosseum and Palatine ruins is €9 plus €2 for exhibitions (last entry is one hour before closing). Admission to the Roman Forum is free. Guided tours available in English and Italian. 06 39967700
Domus Aurea, Via Labicana 136
Emperor Nero’s residence. Opening hours are from 9am til 7.45pm. Closed Tuesdays. Booking essential. Entrance fee is €5 plus €1.50 booking fee. Guided tours in English and Italian available when booking.
06 322981
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Viale delle Belle Arti 131
National collection of modern art. Opening hours are from 9am til 7.30pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance is €6.50.
06 6784235
Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Piazza di Spagna 26
Opening hours are from 9am til 1pm and 3pm til 6pm Mondays to Fridays and 11am til 2pm and 3pm til 6pm on Saturdays. Entrance fee is €3.50
Keyhole view of the Vatican
Aventino – the building of the Malta Cross, there is a keyhole through which you have the most amazing view of the Vatican
06 5926135
Museo della Civiltà Romana, Piazza G. Agnelli 10, EUR
Opening hours are from 9am til 7pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance fee is €6.20.
06 67108346
Museo di Roma, Via S. Pantaleo 10
Opening hours from 9am til 7pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance is €6.20. Guided tours available in English and Italian if booked in advance on 06 82077304.
06 39967700
Palazzo Altemps, Piazza S. Apollinare 46
Ancient sculptures from the Museo Nazionale Romano. Opening hours from 9am til 7.45pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance fee is €5
06 32810
Palazzo Barberini, Via Barberini 18
National collection of 13th to 16th century paintings. Opening hours from 9am til 7pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance fee is €5
06 68802323
Palazzo Corsini Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Via della Lungara 10.
National art collection of 16th and 17th century paintings. Opening hours from 8.30am til 1.50pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance fee is €4
06 46991
Palazzo del Quirinale, Piazza del Quirinale
Formerly a summer papal residence but since 1946 it has been the home of the President of Italy. Opening hours from 8.30am til 12.30pm every Sunday. Entrance fee is €5
06 699941
Palazzo Venezia Museum, Via del Plebiscito 118
Opening hours from 9.30am til 7.30pm. Closed Mondays. Entrance fee is €4
06 68300230
Pantheon, Piazza della Rotonda
Opening hours from Monday to Saturday are 8.30am til 7.30pm and 9am til 6pm on Sundays. Free entrance.
06 70454544
Roman domus on the Celio, Clivo di Scauro
Ancient Roman buildings reopened to the public after major restoration. Opening hours are from 10am til 1pm and 3pm til 6pm. Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Entrance fee is €6.
Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna
Trevi Fountain/Fontana di Trevi, Piazza di Trevi
Vatican
Please note that dress codes are strictly enforced. You will not be allowed in wearing shorts, skirts above the knee or tops which show your shoulders. Also you cannot bring buggies into the Vatican itself.
Open daily from 7am til 7pm. Entrance is free but you will have to pay to go up to the top of the Dome, the Treasury Museum and the Vatican Gardens.
06 69883860
Vatican Museums (including the Sistine Chapel), Viale del Vaticano
Opening hours from Monday to Saturday from 8.45am til 1.45pm. Closed Sundays except last Sunday of the month when the museum is free of charge. Normal entrance fee is €12.
06 6991718
Vittoriano, Piazza Aracoeli
Monument to the first King of Italy. Admission free. Opening hours from 9.30am til 4.30pm
Piazza/Squares to visit
Piazza di Spagna – Spanish Steps
Piazza del Popolo – at the end of Via del Corso
Piazza Navona
Campo de’ Fiori
Piazza Venezia
Piazza del Campidoglio
Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere