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Albano Laziale (2 Km)

Anfiteatro Romano

Dating back to the 3rd century after Christ.

Albano Laziale (2 Km)

Villa di Gneo Pompeo

The remains of the Villa di Pompeo occupy about nine hectares. In the past centuries he had prestigious guests such as Cicero.

Albano Laziale (2 Km)

Chiesa di Santa Maria della Rotonda

The sanctuary of Maria Santissima della Rotonda is located in the city of Albano Laziale in the area of the Castelli Romani. The sanctuary occupies an ancient round-built Roman building dating back to the 1st century.

Albano Laziale (2 Km)

Porta Pretoria

Porta Pretoria is one of the most important historical places in Albano Laziale. It was discovered during the bombings of World War II and was one of the most important accesses in the country. With a height of 14 meters and a width of 36 m, it consists of rectangular towers and protected ovens. The door is the destination of many tourists who visit it and are fascinated by its beauty.

Albano Laziale (2 Km)

Sepolcro degli Orazi e Curiazi

The Sepulchre of the Horatii and Curiatii is one of the symbols of Albano Laziale. Archaeological studies have found that the tomb dates back to the first half of the first century BC. This tomb consists of a square base on which four truncated conical towers rise at the corners and a central one of which very little remains. The construction is covered with pepperino slabs that alternate bands are arranged in a vertical and horizontal position.

Ariccia (3 Km)

Piazza di Corte

In the town of Ariccia, it was designed from 1661 by great architects such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Carlo Fontana.

Rome (4 Km)

Monte Cavo

It rises on the Alban Hills in a hilly area of volcanic origin, it is the highest peak and reaches almost a thousand meters.

Grottaferrata (5 Km)

Museo dell'Abbazia di San Nilo

The Museum of the Abbey of San Nilo is set up inside the homonymous monastery founded in 1004. The core of the collections consists of sarcophagi, marble finds and portraits of prominent characters such as Alexander the Great and Constantine. Among the sacred objects you can admire a “homophorion” in silk and gold from the 14th century.

Nemi (5 Km)

Museo delle Navi Romane

The Museum of Roman Ships was built in 1935. It housed the ships that belonged to the Emperor Caligula. Unfortunately, on 31 May 1944, there was a great fire that destroyed most of the ships. The Museum was reopened again in 1953 with what was left of it. Today it is part of the Museum Grandtour Museum System.

Nemi (6 Km)

Lago di Nemi

Lake Nemi is a small volcanic lake, located between Nemi and Genzano di Roma, just south of Rome, at an altitude of 316 m above sea level, on the Albani Hills in the territory of the Castelli Romani.

Rome (6 Km)

Via dei Condotti

Via dei Condotti, known simply as Via Condotti, is one of the best known streets in Rome. Located in the north of the historic center (the so-called Trident), connects Via del Corso to the Spanish Steps.

Frascati (8 Km)

Cattedrale Frascati

Monte Porzio Catone (8 Km)

Eremo Tuscolano di Camaldoli

Since 1600 it has been hosting travelers and tourists, with the incomprehensible exclusion of women

Rome (9 Km)

Galleria Colonna

Galleria Colonna is a Roman Baroque artistic work, commissioned in the mid-1600s, by Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna and inaugurated by his son Lorenzo Onofrio in 1700. The gallery was designed in such a way as to represent the victory of the Christian fleet over the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. In fact, in the rooms of the Gallery, the commander of the fleet is painted at various times, namely Marcantonio II Colonna. In addition to many other works of great importance, we also find the painting by Bronzino depicting Venus, Cupid and Satyr.

Montecompatri (10 Km)

Pinacoteca di San Silvestro

The Art Gallery of San Silvestro is located inside the Convent of the Camerlitan Fathers. The Art Gallery is set up in a part of the Convent and an exhibits collection of sacred paintings, which date back to the 17th century.Small format canvases represent religious during the retreat periods in the hermitage or for the devotion of community members. The Convent is open to the interested public.

Velletri (12 Km)

Torre del Trivio

The Trivio Tower was built in 1353 as a bell tower of the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo in Velletri. It is characterized by the Lombardy-Gothic style and stands for about 50 meters in height. The facades are distinguished by eight windows each, adorned with green majolica bowls. During the restoration, the cusp was eliminated and currently the Tower has a lower roof.

Velletri (12 Km)

Museo Civico

The Civic Museum was reopened a few years after several renovations and interventions on the construction. It was opened to the public, for the first time, in 1920 by engineer Oreste Nardini. Nowadays, most of the most important works that were there at the beginning, have been moved to museums far from Velletri, such as the 'Pallas of Velletri', kept in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The gallery is divided into two sections: the archaeological section and that of Geopaleontology and Prehistory of the Alban Hills. The first includes the Sarcophagus of the Labor of Hercules, the Slab of the Prayer, and the Volsche ceramics. The second, on the other hand, is a journey in the Prehistory of the Alban Hills.

Velletri (12 Km)

Museo Diocesano

The Diocesan Museum is based in the former seventeenth-century seminary belonging to the Diocese of Velletri. The collections on display date back to the nineteenth century and were kept in the Cathedral of the city during World War II. The most significant work is the “Veliterna Crux” of an ancient Palermo goldsmith from the eleventh century.

Velletri (13 Km)

Porta Napoletana

Porta Napoletana was built in 1511 in alignment with the ancient defensive wall circle of Velletri. On one of the door jambs there is an intimation that attributed to the Door a real function of a customs barrier. During the eighteenth century the structure underwent several changes, such as the reinforcement of the two side towers of a semicircular shape.

Rome (13 Km)

Mostra Permanente "Le Carrozze d'Epoca"

The Permanent Exhibition “The Vintage Carriages” is sponsored by the Public Bodies of Rome and owns a collection of over 160 pieces, of which many vintage carriages kept for over forty years with passion and a lot of care. Of great value can be seen, in a space of over 3,000 square meters, representation sedans, Landau and even the famous chariots of the films “Ben Hur “and “Gladiator”.

Rome (16 Km)

Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella

The Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella was built in the years from 30 — 20 BC, at the point where the lava flow expelled from the Colli Albani, in the Via Appia stopped. It is a monumental tomb erected for a Roman noblewoman, Cecilia Metella, of whom only her degree of kinship with some men of great importance from ancient Rome is known. In fact, the tomb is an interpretation of celebration of the prestigious family in which it took part, that of Quinto Cecilio Metello.

Rome (17 Km)

Catacombe di San Sebastiano

The origins of the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian are pagan, later these structures became Christian cemeteries. The complex consists of numerous galleries, extended in a length of 12 km. The origins date back to the first century AD. The transition from a pagan cemetery to the Christian cemetery took place gradually. The catacombs are built of stone and mortar.

Rome (17 Km)

Cinecittà World

Rome (17 Km)

Catacombe di Pretestato

The Catacombs of Pretested are located on the left side of Via Appia in Rome. Their main nucleus is composed of a long tunnel adapted to a hypogeum tomb that is called spelunca magna. It was excavated in the 2nd century and was used below as a cemetery in the 3rd century. It is very rich in monuments and was used for the burials of characters from the Senatorium aristocracy and the imperial family.

Rome (17 Km)

Fosse Ardeatine

March 1944, German troops shot 335 Italian soldiers and civilians in the Fosse Ardeatine. This massacre took place as a retaliation to an attack that had struck and killed 33 German soldiers by the partisans and members of the Italian Patriotic Action Group. After World War II, in memory of the Italian military killed in this massacre, a monument was inaugurated in 1949.

Rome (17 Km)

Catacombe Santi Marcellino e Pietro

The Catacombs of Saints Marcellino and Pietro are located in the basement of the parish of Santi Marcellino and Pietro in Via Casilina in Rome. It is part of a complex called Ad Duas Lauros ('to the Two Laurels'), probably due to the presence of two laurel trees found on this site. The period of the construction of these catacombs can be placed at the time of the persecution of Diocletian.

Rome (17 Km)

Museo della Civiltà Romana

The Museum of Roman Civilization was opened to the public in 1955. The current collections of the museum come from the collections of the Archaeological Exhibition of 1911 of the Museum of the Roman Empire. The museum is divided into fifty-nine sections and inside it we can admire reproductions of statues, busts, part of the full-size buildings and reliefs. Among the works of greatest interest we can remember the model of ancient Rome at the time of Constantine I.

Rome (17 Km)

Via Appia

It is one of the most ancient roads, built in 312 B.C by Appius Claudius Caecus and spanned 350 miles.Made of large stones, it connected Rome to Brindisi and was a strategic place because it allowed access and trade to the east. Today many important tombs and architecture line its borders: the Christian catacombs, San Sebastian tomb, San Domitilla tomb, San Callixtus tomb. The Via Sacra, a part of the Appian Way, passes through the Roman Forum and borders the Palatine and the Circus Maximum, as well as the Caracalla’s Bath.

Rome (17 Km)

Catacombe

They are ancient subterranean burial areas, Jewish and Christian, outside the walls of the city. They date back from the second century to the fifth A.D. Among the most important catacombs are those of Praetextatus, San Sebastiano, San Callisto and the Jewish Catacombs of the Villa Torlonia.

Rome (18 Km)

Catacombe San Callisto (II sec)

The catacombs of San Callisto are part of a vast community catacombal network from the end of the second century AD and are located in Via Appia Antica. The catacombs are named after Pope Martyr St. Callisto born in 217 and died in 222. Of the above ground structures are visible only two apsided funerary buildings that are the eastern and western trichòra. Along one of the galleries open the cubicles called “of the Sacraments” where the oldest paintings of the catacombs are preserved.

Rome (18 Km)

Catacombe di San Callisto

The Catacombs of San Callisto are part of a vast community catacombal network from the end of the second century AD and are located in Via Appia Antica. The catacombs are named after the Pope Martyr, St. Callisto, born in 217 and died in 222. Dozens of martyrs, 16 popes and many Christians found burial in them. Along one of the galleries open the cubicles called “of the Sacraments” where the oldest paintings of the catacombs are preserved.

Rome (18 Km)

Catacombe Santa Domitilla

The Catacombs of Santa Domitilla, a Christian cemetery in ancient Rome date back to the 3rd century. It is the largest cemetery of its kind in the ancient city and are also known as the catacombs of Saints Nereo and Achilleo. The catacombs were composed of ambulacres excavated entirely that develop on four levels for an extension of 15 km, on which more than 150,000 frescoed burials were placed.

Rome (18 Km)

Cimitero di Domitilla

The Catacomb of Domitilla is among the largest cemeteries in Rome. Through a modern staircase you access a small Basilica dedicated to Saints Nereo and Achilleo. It consists of three naves, separated by two rows of four columns. The only column is decorated with the beheading of Achilleo. A 3rd century fresco depicting the Christ Good Shepherd is of great interest. It contains several paintings from the 3rd and 4th centuries, among which that of the Epiphany stands out.

Ardea (18 Km)

Museo "G. Manzù"

The “G. Manzù” museum was opened to the public in 1981 on the initiative of Inge Schabel, wife of the artist. Inside there is a large collection of works by Manzù himself: sculptures of bronze, ebony, stucco and also you can admire photographic archives. This is a place of cultural importance for the area. The museum is available to all interested parties.

Rome (18 Km)

Catacombe di Domitilla

Rome (18 Km)

Palazzo dei Congressi

The Palazzo dei Congressi is located in Rome and is a project by Adalberto Libera. It was built in 1938 and completed in 1954. Its renovation led to the installation of new multimedia technological equipment and was able to host large projections.

Rome (18 Km)

Parco Scuola del Traffico

Zagarolo (18 Km)

Museo del giocattolo

The Toy Museum was built on 18 March 2005. It is located inside the rooms of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Rospigliosi. It expands into 18 rooms where toys from the twentieth century are exhibited. There are about 800 pieces built by the most important factories that allow you to relive the good period of childhood.

Rome (18 Km)

Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro Quadrato

The Palazzo della Civiltà in Rome, was built from 1938 to 1940. The building has a square plan and has 54 arches per façade, for this reason, it was also renamed the Square Colosseum. The Palace was declared a building of cultural interest. The 28 statues represent 'human arts and activities'. The Square Colosseum with its special architecture has become the background or quote for many films.

Rome (19 Km)

Acquedotto Vergine

The Virgin Aqueduct is the only still functioning Roman aqueduct of ancient Rome. It was inaugurated on 9 June 19 BC to feed the area of Campo Marzio and above all to supply the homonymous spas. The aqueduct collected in an artificial reservoir several pounds and aquiferous veins variously harnessed and was about 20 kilometers long, almost completely underground.

Rome (19 Km)

Porta San Sebastiano

The San Sebastiano Gate is part of the defensive walls of the Aurelian Walls and is one of the best preserved. It was called the Appian Gate and only in Christian times was it renamed “Porta San Sebastiano” because the way leads to the basilica and catacombs of San Sebastiano. The current appearance is due to the honorian makeover when the door was designed with only one fornice, while in the initial construction there were two.

Rome (19 Km)

Museo delle Mura

The Museum of the Walls is part of the Aurelian Walls and is located inside the Gate of San Sebastiano in Rome. The idea of the Museum was born after World War II when the Gate was opened to the public, but the official opening of the Museum deliberated by the City Council took place in 1989. The Museum is located in seven rooms and there is also a terrace and a walkway.

Rome (19 Km)

Porta Ardeatina

The Ardeatina Gate is part of one of the gates that opened in the Aurelian Walls in Rome. Its characteristic is that it has present, both inside and outside of its wall, a piece of paved road from the Roman era, of which the signs of the wagons that passed there are visible. On the inside of the walls a tomb was found probably wanted by the Emperor Aurelian who, among other things, wanted to accelerate the construction of the walls by enclosing pre-existing structures.

Rome (19 Km)

Basilica San Paolo Fuori Le Mura

One of the four papal basilicas of Rome, the largest after St. Peter. Do not miss the frescoes, mosaics, the tomb of the Apostle Paul and the beautiful external porch.

Rome (19 Km)

Sepolcro degli Scipioni

The Sepulchre of the Scipioni dates back to the beginning of the 3rd century BC, by Consul Cornelio Scipione Barbato. In fact, its sarcophagus was located in front of the entrance to the monument and, currently, it can be observed in the Vatican Museums. The tomb was excavated in the tuff itself of the hill and its structure is in a square plan with pillars that divide it into six galleries. In the walls of the galleries, niches were created for sarcophagi built with tuff slabs and square blocks.

Rome (20 Km)

Terme di Caracalla

They are located in the southeast area of the ancient Rome center. The Baths were built during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, whose nickname was Caracalla, in 212 AD and works to complete them lasted five years. This structure was not only a bathing house. It was a complex of libraries, art galleries, restaurants and gymnasium, famous for its interiors with floors and walls covered in mosaics and amazing fountains and statues.

Rome (20 Km)

Sepolcro di Marco Virgilio Eurisace

The tomb of Eurisace dates back to the first century BC and is a monumental tomb of Marco Virgil Eurisace, a Roman baker and his wife. The property is located near Porta Maggiore and was located in the homonymous square, between Termini Station and the Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. The monument is made of travertine and is adorned with characteristic elements, such as bags and mouths of doli.

Rome (20 Km)

Porta Maggiore

The Porta Maggiore originates from the Claudio Aqueduct. It was built in 52 and was made of rustic rusticated. Later the door was included in the route of the Aurelian Walls. The construction owes its name to the fact that from there you could go to Santa Maria Maggiore. In its vicinity we can admire a rich collection of ancient finds: hypogeums, some funeral monuments and an underground basilica.

Rome (20 Km)

Arcibasilica San Giovanni in Laterano

Dedicated to John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the Basilica is also the cathedral of the Pope. Built in the 4th century by Constantine the Great, it is the very first church built in Rome. The main elements to see are the two-storied portico, the Cosmatesque pavement with the Colonna family’s coat-of-arms, the baldacchino, whose reliquary contains the heads of Saints Peter and Paul, the High Altar, the Altar of Holy Sacrament and the cloisters that represent the remains of the Benedictine monastery, Romanesque and Gothic style.

Rome (20 Km)

Scala Santa

The Holy Staircase is part of the medieval legend which tells that it is the ascent of Jesus, transported in 326 by Saint Helena Empress to Rome. In fact, it represents the scale of Jesus' ascent to the interrogation hall of Pontius Pilate, before his crucifixion. The building that contains it is called Scala Santa and was built at the end of the 16th century by Pope Sixtus V. The structure was erected by Domenico Fontana and in the palace inside it we can admire several monuments.

Rome (20 Km)

Palazzo Lateranense

The Lateran Palace is a building complex that includes the Papal Apartment, the government offices of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican Museums, the Vatican Apostolic Library, as well as more than 1. 000 rooms. Since the beginning of the 4th century, it has been the main residence of the popes, for about a thousand years. The Lateran fortified complex created a citadel around the Papal Palace, including the Cathedral and the Baptistery.

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HOTEL CORALLO

Rome (21 Km) - Via Palestro, 44

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Hotel Corallo in Rome is a comfortable 2 star hotel located in the historic city center, a five minute walk from Termini Train Station and a short walk from the Tube Station Castro Pretorio.

HOTEL BEVERLY HILLS ROME

Rome (23 Km) - Largo Benedetto Marcello, 220

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Hotel Beverly Hills Rome is located in the prestigious Parioli neighborhood. The famous Villa Borghese park is just around the corner, as is Via Veneto and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna. A spacious and elegant reception hall with large glass doors and sofas welcomes guests to the Hotel Beverly Hills Rome. This is a clear prelude to the expert hospitality and warm welcome which the guests will find within. Whether you are a businessman who needs to stay in the heart of the capital or a family looking to spend a holiday exploring the city’s fascinating history and art, each of the 183 guest rooms and suites of the Hotel Beverly Hills Rome will give you a warm welcome and will make you feel right at home. The warm and welcoming atmosphere of the Mascagni Restaurant and the Puccini Bar & Bistrot, with classic furniture and impeccable service, paints a perfect picture of the cosmopolitan hospitality offered by the Hotel Beverly Hills Rome. The Hotel Beverly Hills Rome is an expert in quality meetings. Equipped with spacious and elegant common areas, its 6 meeting rooms are all soundproof and come equipped with the most modern technology.

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Things to do in Castel Gandolfo Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Piazza della Libertà

Chiesa di San Tommaso di Villanova

What To See near Castel Gandolfo

Anfiteatro Romano

Villa di Gneo Pompeo

Chiesa di Santa Maria della Rotonda

Porta Pretoria

Sepolcro degli Orazi e Curiazi

Piazza di Corte

Monte Cavo

Museo dell'Abbazia di San Nilo

Museo delle Navi Romane

Lago di Nemi

Via dei Condotti

Cattedrale Frascati

Eremo Tuscolano di Camaldoli

Galleria Colonna

Pinacoteca di San Silvestro

Torre del Trivio

Museo Civico

Museo Diocesano

Porta Napoletana

Mostra Permanente "Le Carrozze d'Epoca"

Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella

Catacombe di San Sebastiano

Cinecittà World

Catacombe di Pretestato

Fosse Ardeatine

Catacombe Santi Marcellino e Pietro

Museo della Civiltà Romana

Via Appia

Catacombe

Catacombe San Callisto (II sec)

Catacombe di San Callisto

Catacombe Santa Domitilla

Cimitero di Domitilla

Museo "G. Manzù"

Catacombe di Domitilla

Palazzo dei Congressi

Parco Scuola del Traffico

Museo del giocattolo

Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro Quadrato

Acquedotto Vergine

Porta San Sebastiano

Museo delle Mura

Porta Ardeatina

Basilica San Paolo Fuori Le Mura

Sepolcro degli Scipioni

Terme di Caracalla

Sepolcro di Marco Virgilio Eurisace

Porta Maggiore

Arcibasilica San Giovanni in Laterano

Scala Santa

Palazzo Lateranense

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