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VISITITALY WHAT TO SEE LAZIO CASTELLI ROMANI MARINO

Things to do in Marino Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Welcome to Marino Italy. If you’are planning to visit Marino for your next trip and you are looking for the best places to visit, here you’ll find tips and suggestions of most popular point of interest and activities not to be missed in Marino and surrounding. Travelers will appreciate this italian town with his rich historical and artistic heritage, local culture and environment. Discover the monuments, buildings, natural treasures and all the details that characterize Marino and its territory.  Share and suggest a place you've visited.

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Albano Laziale (5 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.

Rome (11 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.

Velletri (14 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.

Rome (14 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 (15 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 (16 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 (16 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.

Rome (16 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)

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 (17 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 (18 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 (18 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 (18 Km)

Monumento a San Francesco d'assisi

The Statue of Saint Francis of Assisi was inaugurated in 1927 on the occasion of the seventh century since the death of the Saint. The monument was designed by the sculptor Giuseppe Tonnini. The statue represents the saint with his arms facing up and his hands straight towards the Basilica of St. John. Behind the statue are also noted the followers who accompanied him to the meeting with Pope Innocent lll. You can also read on the monument the verses of the song of the Paradise of the Divine Comedy through which the description of the figure of the Saint was made.

Rome (19 Km)

Museo Archeologico Ostiense

The Ostiense Archaeological Museum was built in 1865 by Pontiff Pius IX in what were previously the walls of a fifteenth-century building used for the storage of salt. Inside the museum we can find archaeological finds found during excavations and, moreover, we can observe a collection of portraits of stubborn characters such as the head of Trajan and the bust of Asclepius. There are also sculptures such as the statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa and also the marble statue of Love and Psyche.

Rome (19 Km)

Piramide Cestia

The Pyramid Cestia is part of one of the funerary monuments present in the first century BC in Rome and is located along the Via Ostiense. Politician Caio Cestio had arranged in his will to have his own tomb built in pyramidal form within 330 days of the arrangement. The structure of the monument, which we can still observe even today, is more than 36 meters high and has a base of 29 meters. The core is composed of a brick curtain and on the outside we can see that the pyramid is covered with marble slabs.

Rome (19 Km)

Obelisco di Axum

The Obelisk of Axum comes from the homonymous city and was built between the first and fourth century AD by Egyptian artists. It was placed in Rome in October 1937 after a long journey, where hundreds of Italian soldiers had been hired for transport. For its construction, metal wedges were used that strengthened the obelisk from the inside. Despite the fact that the Obelisk was returned to Ethiopia in 2005, only in 2008, a construction site was started to rebuild the stele, and this thanks to Italian funds.

Rome (19 Km)

Museo di Antichità Etrusche e Italiche

The Museum of Etruscan and Italic Antiquities was founded in the 1950s by Massimo Pallottino. Inside we can admire many original archaeological finds: casts and models concerning the Etruscan culture of pre-Roman Italy. The Museum is spread over two floors occupying an exhibition area of 570 square meters, where two collections are exhibited, the Gorga Collection and the Rellini Collection. The collections preserve ceramics from the Etruscan area and falisca area materials.

Rome (19 Km)

Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeus of Santa Prisca was discovered in 1934 and is located in the homonymous church below the Aventine in Rome. Initially, the mitreum was planted on a pre-existing private house, dating back to the first century AD. The construction of the mitraeum dates back to the second century AD and consisted of several underground rooms covered with a vault barrel. The main environment of the mitraeum is a rectangular room of 11.25 meters long by about four in width. On both sides there are counters on which the participants probably took place.

Rome (19 Km)

Museo di Chimica

The Museum of Chemistry was established in 1986 and initially had only a box of glasses, in which some willing had begun to dispose of equipment deemed interesting. Later, in 1988, the Department of Chemistry assigned to the Museum another space where a large glass wardrobe from Via Panisperna was exhibited. The Museum currently exhibits scientific equipment and some documents belonging to S. Cannizzaro, dating back to 1872, the year in which he established the Royal Chemical Institute.

Rome (19 Km)

Colle Aventino

It is one of the seven hills on which Rome was founded. It has two peaks, one of them is close to the Tiber and the other one is located more south, the minor Aventine. According to myths, the Aventine is connected to Remus and Romulus, the two brothers who followed the signs from gods to discover the city. During the reign of King Servius Tullius, the famous temple of Diana was built here, sanctuary of the Latins. Today, one of the most beautiful view is that of St.Peter’s Basilica.

Rome (19 Km)

Arco di Trionfo di Constantino

The Arch of Constantine is the largest triumphal arch (6.5 meters long and 11.45 meters high) and is located near the Colosseum, in Rome. The monument was erected to celebrate the victory of Constantine I in the battle of Ponte Milvio against Maxentius, which took place on 28 October 312 AD and possesses considerable historical and artistic importance. The construction of the arch was made with marble for the pylons, while the attic was made of masonry, also covered in marble.

Rome (19 Km)

Palatino

The Palatine Hill is located between the Velabro and the Roman Forum and is one of the seven hills of Rome. According to legend, Rome originated on the Palatine Hill and recent excavations testify that it had been populated as early as 1000 BC. Romulus chose this place to found the city, and the Romuli house was actually one hut located in the northwest corner of the hill, where Augustus' house was then built. The site is now a great open-air museum and can be visited during the day.

Rome (19 Km)

Torre dei Borgia

The Torre dei Borgia was erected in the twelfth century and belonged to the Cesarini first, and to the Margani later. In fact, we still find the coat of arms of the family to which it belonged above the louver. Currently, this tower is today a bell tower, precisely that of the Church of S. Francesco di Paola ai Monti. The construction has a square base and a compact brick grinding wheel. At the end of the fifteenth century, a crowning with travertine beccatelli was added to her.

Rome (19 Km)

Castello di Lunghezza

The Castle of Length is located in the homonymous town in the municipality of Rome. It dates back to the birth of the Roman Republic and was built on Paleolithic remains. Over the centuries it has undergone numerous transformations and has hosted characters such as Jacopone da Todi, Bonifacio VIII, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Caterina De' Medici, the Strozzi family, and Carlo of England. Its structure is classified as a national monument. It is currently in excellent condition, is home to the Imaginary Park and is open to the public.

Rome (19 Km)

Antiquarium Forense

The Forensic Antiquarium was created in the early twentieth century by Giacomo Boni. It is located in the rooms on the ground floor of the well-known cloister of Santa Francesca Romana. We find on display in various rooms some funerary finds and objects found in childhood tombs dating from the 8th to 7th century BC. Of great importance are also some reliefs of the Basilica Aemilia which are also of great importance. The themes of the myth of Aeneas and the history of the city resume.

Rome (19 Km)

Palatino Domus Tiberiana

The Domus Tiberiana was the first imperial palace on the Palatine Hill. The building was built by Emperor Tiberius on the west of the hill. Above are the Farnesian Gardens of the 500 and, until today, only the edge of the area has been explored, while the central area remains unexplored yet. The surrounding areas remain unvisible, while a group of 18 rectangular rooms dating back to the era of Nero has been preserved. In the 8th century AD the Domus Tiberiana was used as the residence of Pope John VII.

Rome (19 Km)

Tempio dei Castori

The Temple of the Beavers or the Dioscuri is located near the Basilica Giulia, in the area of ancient Rome. The construction of the Temple was started by the dictator Aulo Postumio Albino, in memory of the apparition of the Dioscuri, to signal the Roman victory over the Latins in the battle of Lake Regillo in 499 BC Temple was composed on the front of eight Corinthian columns fluted with pario marble, while on the sides it was formed by eleven columns. In the past it was a meeting place for the Senate and from 160 BC, in front of the temple, an important court was established.

Rome (19 Km)

Torre dei Conti

The Tower of Counts was erected in 1238 at the behest of Pope Innocent III who had it built for his family, the Counts of Segni. Built on the structure of one of the four exedras of the portico of the Temple of Peace, it was covered with travertine slabs of the Imperial Forums. The building was also nicknamed “Torre Maggiore” due to the fact that it exceeded fifty meters in height. Today, the building is almost halved or twenty-nine meters in height following the earthquake of 1348 and others in subsequent periods.

Rome (20 Km)

Templi di Portuno e di Ercole

The Temples of Portuno and Hercules are located in the Forum Boario and are also located a short distance from the ancient Tiberino port. The building that takes the name of Portuno dates back to the fourth century BC and is presented in Ionian style, with four columns on the façade and others in travertine at the pronao. The Temple of Hercules instead dates back to the second century BC and was the second marble building to be built in Rome. Its structure has a circular shape and the columns, which are located around the cell, are made of Carrara marble, due to the restoration in the Tiberina era.

Rome (20 Km)

Carcere Mamertino

The Mamertino Prison, or otherwise known as Tulliano, is the oldest prison in Rome. The Tullian consists of two floors of caves, of which the oldest dates back to the VIII-VII century BC. According to legend, the Mamertino prison was the place where the first Pope of Rome was imprisoned, while According to Christianity, it was the place of detention of the Apostle Peter. The place is located below the Church of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami, where in Roman times, justice was administered.

Rome (20 Km)

Musei Capitolini: Galleria Lapidaria

The Lapidaria Gallery is part of the Underground Conjunction Gallery built in the late 1930s, which connected the Capitoline palaces, under Piazza del Campidoglio to Rome. The gallery was inaugurated in 2005. Today it offers a vast collection of Capitoline epigraphic, as well as having a history of more than 1400 marble inscriptions of the Roman Age, which were exhibited in 1957 during the III International Congress of Epigraphy Greek and Latin.

Rome (20 Km)

Mitreo di Palazzo Barberini

The Mitraeus of Palazzo Barberini dates back to the 3rd century AD, located inside a building from the 2nd century. It was discovered in 1936 during some work on the construction of the Savorgnan building in Brazza. The Mithraeus is particular in that there is a fresco representing Mithra on the bottom and two masonry pallets running parallel along the two long sides, where the faithful sat for the sacred banquet. The Barberini mitreum is one of the best preserved among those we know.

Rome (20 Km)

Mercati Traianei

The Trajan Markets are located between the Forum of Trajan and the Quirinal Hill. The construction, which dates back to the second century AD, was designed by the architect Apollodoro from Damascus and inaugurated by Trajan. The complex consists of a public building, the Ulpia Basilica, the Trajan Column, two libraries and a temple. The facade of the Traianean Markets consists of two floors, made of bricks. The Trajan Markets can be considered the first shopping centers. Inside them, apart from the markets, you can also visit the Palatine Museum.

Rome (20 Km)

Palazzo Senatorio

Palazzo Senatorio is located in Rome, between the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo. The palace was built above the ruins of the ancient Tabularium. This building was the only one left from the Republican Age. Above the building stands the bell tower rebuilt by Martino Longhi the Elder. In a classroom in the building, frescoes were discovered, for a long time remained hidden. The rooms inside the building are also of great interest. The building is open today to the public.

Rome (20 Km)

Ponte Fabricio

The Fabricio Bridge is the oldest in Rome and connects the Tiberina Island to the left bank of the Tiber. It originally replaced another wooden bridge and the current structure was erected in 62 BC by Lucio Fabricio or by the “curator viarum”. In ancient times, the bridge was also called “Lapideus” due to a restoration carried out by the consul Emilio Lepido. Over the course of two thousand years it has preserved both its function and the structure of origin.

Rome (20 Km)

Terme di Diocleziano

The Baths of Diocletian are a spa built in Rome between 298 AD and 306 AD. It is one of the largest spas ever built in Rome where up to 3000 people were welcomed. Part of the thermal baths were also the frigidarium, the tepidarium and the calidarium, used by Michelangelo for the construction of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Christian Martyrs. In 1889 it became the original seat of the National Roman Museum, where you can visit the great tomb of the Platorini and that coming from the Necropolis of Via Portuense.

Rome (20 Km)

Tempio di Apollo Sosiano

The Temple of Apollo Sosiano was located near the Teatro Marcello in Rome and was inaugurated in 431 BC. It is called the Temple of Apollo Sosiano in the name of the Consul Gaio Sosio, who totally reproduced the building In 32 B.C. Particular of this building was the cell, which inside it had numerous artistic works and in which meetings of the Senate were also held. The monument featured semi-columns that stood at the sides of the cell, as well as having a large podium.

Rome (20 Km)

Museo Centrale del Risorgimento

The Central Museum of the Risorgimento was inaugurated in 1970 and its history is linked to the collection of the testimonies relating to the political, economic and social transformation of Italy in the 18th, 19th centuries and XX. We find inside the museum depicted the history of Italy with a section dedicated to the main figures of the Italian Risorgimento such as Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini and the Count of Cavour Camillo Benso. You can also visit the archive that has over a million manuscripts and documents, as well as a collection of prints and photographs.

Rome (20 Km)

Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi

Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi, built by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, is located in Rome, on the Quirinale hill. The art gallery includes more than 500 paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works of art by artists, such as Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Nicolas Poussin, Botticelli, Lorenzo Lotto, Guido Reni and other artists of the Renaissance-Baroque period. The building is located in the place where the remains of the Baths of Constantine were found.

Rome (20 Km)

Portico d'Ottavia

The Portico d'Octavia is a construction that dates back to the second century BC. The complex was built at the behest of the Emperor Augustus who dedicated it to his sister Octavia. It is located in the territory where before the ancient portico of Metello was located and included the temple of Juno Queen and Jupiter Stator as well as a Curia and several libraries. In 80 it was damaged by fire and was rebuilt by Septimius Severus. In the Middle Ages, a fish market was built on the remains of the portico complex and the church S. Angelo.

Rome (20 Km)

Altare della Patria

The monument was built in honour of Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the unified Italy. Placed in Piazza Venezia, the structure in white marble was designed by the sculptor Angelo Zanelli and realized by the architect Giuseppe Sacconi. The main element of the altar is the neo-classical porch with Corinthian columns. The two fountains represent the Adriatic coast with San Marco lion and the Tyrrhenian coast, with the wolf of Rome and the siren Partenope. Inside is the famous Milite Ignoto, the body of an Italian soldier died during the First World War.

Rome (20 Km)

Torre dei Margani

The Torre dei Margani dates back to the twelfth century and was the property of the Roman family of the Margani who, in 1305, obtained this building from the then owner Andrea Mellini. The structure is divided on three floors and rises on the base of an ancient Roman portico. On the façade are set fragments that symbolize a floral motif and an eagle of Roman origin. There were many additions during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries such as, for example, the garden veranda located on the right of the same tower.

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