Barberini, Campidoglio and Other Places in Rome
A brief guide to Rome Hotels, Accommodations plus useful sightseeing information.
Planning an Itinerary to Rome can be difficult if you are unsure of what to visit: sometimes it’s better to take a Rome Tour. This article gives some insight to some must places of the Eternal City.
Must see places in Rome:
Piazza Barberini
Once an important meeting place for the aristocracy sponsored by the Barberini family, is now one of the main trade center in Rome, ideal for shopping. palazzo barberini hosts a painting gallery and artistic masterpieces unique in the world
Piazza del Campidoglio
Michelangelo transformed this place into a renaissance drawing-room, amiong perspective wings and architectonic foundations of studied beauty.
San Pietro in Vincoli
The statue of Moses, sculpted by Michelangelo with great verisimilitude and power to provoke its author to throw down his chisel crying “why don’t you speak?”. Among history and legend, the tale of a monument which was never finished but also very much re-touched by artists through the years.
St. Peter Basilica
The evolution and the most important Dome in Christianity: from its foundation (Costantino) to its modern facade, passing through Bramante and Michelangelo, whose dome remains the indisputed symbol if Catholicism in the world.
Our fully-furnished apartments are the best alternative to standard Rome hotel accommodation, and located in prime spots and close to the monuments and to the underground.
