Roman food’s survival guide

"... there are some places hidden outside the mass of tourist circuits..."

The largest and most splendid villa of Ancient Rome at 20km far from the capital it lies on a beautiful valley south of Tivoli, which was renowned since the Roman time for country residences of Roman aristocrats

The Casino Borghese was built by wishes of cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli by the architects Giovanni Vasanzio and Flaminio Ponzio

Rome has never ceased to add new architectural layers to its topographical fabric, with works carried out in often decentrated areas, in order to requalify its function and adapt the metropolis to the contemporary era. Here is a summary map of the most important works.

The Roman Colosseum offers three or four points of view totally different from each other. The most beautiful is perhaps what comes to the curious when he is on the arena where the gladiators fought, and sees the immense ruins that arise around before. What mostly impresses me is the blue sky so pure as it appears through the windows of the upper part of the building.
Stendhal "Roman Walks - Colosseum"

The Basilica of St. Peter is in the heart of the Vatican City, an independent sovereign state on the right bank of the Tiber river, in the centre of Rome

The origins and development of the Nuragic civilisation are shrouded in mystery and myth

The first quarter of Rome is “Monti” (mounts), so called as its confines once comprised the Esquilino, Viminal, part of the Quirinal and the Celio hills. It is the most ancient quarter of Rome.  

The most spectacular of Rome's fountains, immortalised by Anita Ekberg 's midnight dip in Fellini's classic film "La dolce vita" (The Sweet Life)

In 27 b.C., Agrippa, son-in-law and architect of Augustus, erected the Pantheon on the site where Romulus according to the legend ascended to Heaven during a ceremony. It was a common temple rectangular in shape, medium size, conceived as a place of worship for various divinities.

Stazio, a Latin poet, called it " Queen of roads" for the splendour of its burial monuments, the splendid patrician residences in the suburban section and for the evocative beauty of the land that it crossed.