Informations about Rome itineraries

Informations (tourist itineraries)

Veneto Inn, as just mentioned, is located in one of the most fashion central zone, where is easily reachable by feet some of the most important Rome sites:

Villa borghese, covers a vast area in the heart of Rome. Just around the corner of the B&B, the Park include buildings, sculptures, monuments and fountains by famous artists from the Baroque. The Park hosts also the famous Galleria borghese, one of the finest art collections in the world.

Always very close Veneto Inn there's Spanish steps, as well as being one of the most majestic urban monuments of Roman Baroque style. At the top of the stairs you can admire beautiful sunsets and view of city.

Little further away we can find the Pantheon, a Roman architecture from the time of the Emperor Hadrian. Going still further here Piazza navona, light and sculpture, It is long and owes its shape to the ruins that formed it, for under the buildings that surround Piazza Navona are the remains of the Circus Domitianus. In the centre of the piazza is Bernini's best fountain, la Fontana dei Fiumi. Piazza Navona is an extremely lively place with open air cafes around it. There are numerous artists who draw or paint members of the public for a fee.

It could not fail in our suggestion her majesty the Colosseum, the Flavian Amphitheatre (as it was then known), was inaugurated by Vespasian's son, the emperor Tito, people came here to see gladiatorial combat, or to watch criminals being attacked by wild animals. The arena was even flooded at various times in order to stage naval battles!

Then, here the Vatican, with the charming square along with Bernini's colonnade are surrounding the biggest church of Christianity, dominated by the magnificent dome of Michelangelo. Not to be missed the Vatican Museums, with the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo and the Stanze della Segnatura by Raffaello.