This collection gathers sites and events from the 20th century: public buildings, residential neighborhoods, modern art museums, and spaces tied to political and cultural movements. It suits readers who want to see how the city expanded and changed over the last century.

Places: 20th century (105)

• Academia BelgicaThe Academia Belgica, at Via Omero 8 in Valle Giulia, can't be visited freely: it's the Belgian center for history, the arts and sciences in Rome,…
• Alberto Moravia House MuseumAlberto Moravia House Museum - Lungotevere della Vittoria, 1, 00195 Rome RM, Italy
• Alberto Sordi House MuseumThe Alberto Sordi House Museum is the villa where the actor lived until his death in 2003, above Piazzale Numa Pompilio, between the Baths of Carac…
• Anzio (RM)Anzio (RM) - Via Fanciulla d’Anzio, 00042 Anzio RM
• Anzio BeachHead MuseumAnzio BeachHead Museum - Museo dello Sbarco di Anzio - Via di Villa Adele, 2, 00042 Anzio RM, Italy
• Ardeatine Caves MausoleumArdeatine Caves Mausoleum - Via Ardeatina, 174, 00179 Rome RM, Italy
• Babington’s Tea RoomBabington’s Tea Room is at Piazza di Spagna 23-25, on the left side of the stairway as you look at it from below, and it is a private tea room run…
• Basilica of Santi Pietro e Paolo at EURThe Basilica of Santi Pietro e Paolo at EUR is open and active: a parish of the Diocese of Rome entrusted to the Conventual Friars Minor of the Alm…
• British School at RomeThe British School at Rome is at Via Antonio Gramsci 61, in Valle Giulia. It is not a museum. It is a British research institute with a library, an…
• Caffè RosatiCaffè Rosati is at Piazza del Popolo 4/5a, on the corner with Via di Ripetta, and it is open: a bar, pastry shop and restaurant with outdoor tables…
• Caffè Sant’EustachioCaffè Sant'Eustachio, official name Sant'Eustachio Il Caffè, is at Piazza di Sant'Eustachio 82, between the Pantheon and Palazzo Madama. It's a bar…
• Caffè Tazza d’OroCasa del Caffè Tazza d'Oro is at Via degli Orfani 84, on the first stretch of the street that climbs from Piazza della Rotonda, with the Pantheon i…
• Cali Roma BaseballCali Roma Baseball Via Amedeo Bocchi, Rome
• Carlo Bilotti Museum – Orangery of Villa BorgheseThe Carlo Bilotti Museum - Orangery of Villa Borghese occupies the old Orangery of the park, with entrances at Via Fiorello La Guardia 6 and at Via…
• Casa della Memoria e della StoriaCasa della Memoria e della Storia Via San Francesco di Sales, 5 Rome
• Casa Museo Boncompagni LudovisiThe Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum is at number 18 on Via Boncompagni, two blocks from Via Vittorio Veneto, and occupies a private villino built betwe…
• Christuskirche, Evangelical Lutheran Church of RomeThe Christuskirche is at Via Sicilia 70, in the Ludovisi rione, and is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Rome, the German-speakin…
• Church of San Felice da CantaliceChurch of San Felice da Cantalice Piazza di San Felice da Cantalice, 20 Roma The mother church of Centocelle, built in the…
• Church of Santi Angeli CustodiChiesa dei Santi Angeli Custodi Via delle Alpi Apuane , 1 Roma The church that gives the Montesacro neighborhood its face,…
• Cinecittà StudiosCinecittà Studios - Via Tuscolana, 1055, 00173 Roma RM, Italy
• Cinema Nuovo OlimpiaThe Cinema Nuovo Olimpia is at Via in Lucina 16, in the Colonna district, between Via del Corso and the square of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lu…
• CoppedèCoppedè - Piazza Mincio 3, Rome
• CorvialeCorviale is not a museum and has no opening hours: it's an inhabited public housing complex in Municipio XI of Rome, with entrances on Via Ettore F…
• Criminology MuseumThe Criminology Museum at Via del Gonfalone 29, in the Regola district, as of September 29, 2026 appears closed to the public: its Google Maps list…
• CSOA SpartacoCSOA Spartaco Via Selinunte, 57 Roma A place for independent production and for the enjoyment of culture, Spartaco is one o…
• Danish Academy in RomeThe Danish Academy is at Via Omero 18, in Valle Giulia, and is the Danish institute for science and art in Rome, an independent body under the Dani…
• Enrico Fermi Center – Historical Museum of Physics and Study and Research Center at the ViminaleTake a journey into physics at the Enrico Fermi Center. The Historical Museum of Physics and Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center is in Rome at P…
• EUR: What to See in Rome’s Rationalist DistrictEUR is the district of Rome born for a universal exposition that was never held: the one of 1942, awarded to the capital in 1936 and canceled by th…
• Ex Ospedale Carlo ForlaniniEx Ospedale Carlo Forlanini - Piazza Carlo Forlanini, 1, 00151 Rome RM, Italy
• Ex Porto FluvialeEx Porto Fluviale is at Via del Porto Fluviale 12, at the corner of Via delle Conce, in the Ostiense district. You don't visit it and you don't go…
• Ex SniaEx Snia Via Prenestina, 173 Roma
• Fiuggi (FR)Fiuggi (FR) is reached from Rome in just over an hour. Take the Autostrada A1 heading south, exit at Anagni-Fiuggi, and climb along regional road 1…
• Fiume Historical Museum and ArchiveFiume Historical Museum and Archive - Via Antonio Cippico, 10, 00143 Roma RM, Italy
• FlaminioYou see Flaminio on foot and almost all of it is free: streets, squares, bridges and facades are public space, and you only pay to get into the mus…
• Fontana delle ApiThe Fontana delle Api is at the corner of Piazza Barberini and Via Vittorio Veneto, in the Ludovisi rione, on the sidewalk at the mouth of the stre…
• Fontana delle NaiadiThe Fontana delle Naiadi is in the middle of Piazza della Repubblica, in the Castro Pretorio rione, in Rome, and you can see it at any hour without…
• Foro ItalicoForo Italico - Lungotevere Maresciallo Diaz, 00135 Rome RM
• Forte AntenneForte Antenne Via del Forte Antenne, 12 Roma
• Forte BravettaForte Bravetta is at Via di Bravetta 739-741, in Municipio XII, between Via Aurelia and Via Portuense. The fort and the green area belong to Roma C…
• FrosinoneFrosinone can be visited freely: the old town on the hill, the piazzas, the cathedral and the monument to Nicola Ricciotti have no ticket, and the…
• Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma (GAM)Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma (GAM) - Via Francesco Crispi, 24, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
• GarbatellaYou go to Garbatella to see something that doesn't exist anywhere else in Rome: a piece of the city built all at once starting in 1920 as a garden…
• Giacomo Manzù Museum in ArdeaThe Giacomo Manzù Museum is an Italian state museum opened in 1981 in Ardea, dedicated to the work of the sculptor Giacomo Manzù.
• Gran Madre di DioGran Madre di Dio is at Via Cassia 1, on the square of Ponte Milvio, 00191 Rome, and it is a parish of the Diocese of Rome. Entry is free, there is…
• Guidonia MontecelioGuidonia Montecelio is a municipality of the metropolitan city of Rome, about 22 kilometers from the capital according to the Lazio Region's touris…
• Hendrik Christian Andersen MuseumHendrik Christian Andersen Museum - Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 20, 00196 Rome RM, Italy
• Historical Museum of the Liberation of RomeHistorical Museum of the Liberation of Rome - Via Torquato Tasso, 145, 00185 Roma RM, Italy
• Istituto Centrale per il RestauroYou don't walk into Istituto Centrale per il Restauro the way you do a museum. The Rome headquarters of this Ministry of Culture institute is at Vi…
• Italo-African Museum “Ilaria Alpi”Italo-African Museum Ilaria Alpi - Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 00144 Rome RM, Italy
• Japanese Cultural Institute in RomeJapanese Cultural Institute in Rome - Via Antonio Gramsci, 74, 00197 Roma RM
• La Conventicola degli UltramoderniLa Conventicola degli Ultramoderni Via di Porta Labicana, 32 Roma
• Lateran PalaceYou can enter the Lateran Palace today only by booking a date and time through the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi circuit: €14 with an audio guide, €18…
• LatinaLatina can be visited freely, on foot, without a ticket: the squares and the buildings of the 1930s are seen from the street, and many are public o…
• Lost and Found Roman FestivalsThe calendar of Roman festivals is a map of things that have ended. Some went out on their own when the city that kept them going came to an end, t…
• Luneur ParkLuneur Park is the amusement park of EUR, on Via delle Tre Fontane, and at the same time it is the oldest permanent park in Italy: its first core d…
• Mercato Centrale RomeMercato Centrale Roma is at Via Giovanni Giolitti 36, on the south side of Termini Station, and you enter freely from the street with no train tick…
• Montecassino Abbey (FR)Montecassino Abbey (FR) - Via Montecassino, 03043 Cassino FR
• MonteverdeMonteverde is walkable and almost everything that matters is free. Villa Doria Pamphilj and Villa Sciarra, run by Roma Capitale, open from 07:00 un…
• Museo della Shoah in RomeToday Museo della Shoah in Rome is the exhibition site of Fondazione Museo della Shoah at the Casina dei Vallati, Via del Portico d'Ottavia 29, in…
• Music InnMusic Inn Largo dei Fiorentini, 3 Roma
• National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary ArtNational Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art - Viale delle Belle Arti, 131, 00197 Rome RM, Italy
• Nettuno (RM)Nettuno (RM) - Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini, 9, 00048 Nettuno RM
• Nuovo Mercato EsquilinoNuovo Mercato Esquilino Via Principe Amedeo, 184 Roma Food from five continents in what used to be the old neighborhood mar…
• Ostia LidoOstia Lido is the sea of Rome and you get there with the same ticket you use for the bus. This is the main news, and many Romans themselves forget…
• OstienseYou go to Ostiense for industrial archaeology, and the main piece is the Centrale Montemartini at Via Ostiense 106, open Tuesday to Sunday from 9:0…
• Palazzaccio – Palace of Justice of RomeThere are buildings in Rome that you visit and others that simply loom over you. The Palazzaccio - Palace of Justice of Rome undoubtedly belongs to…
• Palazzo VeneziaPalazzo Venezia stands in the heart of Piazza Venezia, between the Capitoline, the Forums and Via del Corso, and is the oldest great Renaissance pa…
• Piazza della RepubblicaPiazza della Repubblica is the big semicircular square that opens at the crossing of Via Nazionale, Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Viale Enrico…
• PignetoYou come to Pigneto for three things: the pedestrian stretch of Via del Pigneto with its market stalls, the recognizable corners from the films of…
• Piper ClubPiper Club Via Tagliamento, 9 Roma
• Piscina delle RosePiscina delle Rose Viale America, 20 Rome Olympic-size pool measuring 25×50 m at Eur, built for the ’60 Olympics in Rome
• Places of Memory in Rome: Resistance, Deportation, Stumbling StonesThe places of memory in Rome are the sites, now open to visitors, where the nine months between September 1943 and June 1944 were decided: the pris…
• Planetarium and Astronomical Museum of RomeThe Rome Planetarium is at Piazza Giovanni Agnelli 10, in EUR, inside the same building that houses Museo della Civiltà Romana. You enter by the ma…
• Ponte della Musica – Armando TrovajoliPonte della Musica - Armando Trovajoli - Ponte della Musica Armando Trovajoli, 00195 Rome RM
• Ponte FlaminioYou cross the Ponte Flaminio on foot, for free and at any hour: it's the large travertine road bridge that carries corso di Francia over the Tiber,…
• Ponte GaribaldiPonte Garibaldi connects Lungotevere dei Cenci, on the side of the Regola district and the Jewish Ghetto, to Piazza Gioacchino Belli and the start…
• Ponte SublicioYou cross Ponte Sublicio on foot, for free and at any hour: it is a road bridge over the Tiber that connects Piazza dell'Emporio, on the side of Te…
• Pontine Land MuseumThe Pontine Land Museum is the first institutional point of reference for safeguarding the historical memory of the Pontine territory.
• Portico of OctaviaThe Portico of Octavia is the monumental enclosure that Augustus had rebuilt in the southern Campus Martius and dedicated to his sister Octavia, on…
• QuadraroQuadraro is a borgata that grew outside the walls between Via Casilina and Via Tuscolana, in the southeast quadrant of Rome, a quarter of an hour b…
• Rione BorgoThe rione Borgo is the 14th rione of Rome and occupies the strip of city between Castel Sant’Angelo and Piazza San Pietro, on the right bank of the…
• Romanian Academy in RomeThe Romanian Academy in Rome is at Piazza José de San Martín 1, in Valle Giulia, and it is the cultural institute of the Romanian state in Italy. I…
• Rome Before and AfterRome is a city that has cut itself to measure more than once, and almost always with a bulldozer. Between 1876 and 1943 a Baroque river port was er…
• Rome Synagogue (Great Synagogue)Rome Synagogue (Great Synagogue) - Lungotevere de' Cenci, 00186 Roma RM
• Rome’s neighborhood fountainsRome's neighborhood fountains, the fontanelle rionali, are a series of small travertine fountains designed by the architect Pietro Lombardi and mos…
• SabaudiaSabaudia is a city built from scratch between 1933 and 1934 on the dune that divides the sea from Lake Paola, and from Rome you can go and come bac…
• San Donato Val di Comino (FR)San Donato Val di Comino (FR) is in Frosinone Province, at 721 meters above sea level, on the Lazio side of the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National…
• San Gioacchino in PratiSan Gioacchino in Prati is on Via Pompeo Magno, at the corner of Piazza dei Quiriti, and the Roma Capitale tourist portal gives street number 106.…
• San LorenzoSan Lorenzo is the neighborhood outside Porta Tiburtina where you can see four things in half a day: the Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, the…
• San Lorenzo in PanispernaSan Lorenzo in Panisperna is a church in the rione Monti, at Via Panisperna 90, reached by climbing a double-ramp stairway and crossing a tree-line…
• Sanctuary of the Madonna del Divino AmoreThe Divino Amore sanctuary is a pilgrimage destination dear to Romans: during the summer, every Saturday there is a night pilgrimage on foot from R…
• Santa Maria OdigitriaSanta Maria Odigitria is at via del Tritone 82, in Rome, and is the national church of the Sicilians: it belongs to the Arciconfraternita di Santa…
• Sapienza University CityThe Sapienza University City is at Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, in Rome, and is run by Sapienza University of Rome. You can walk through the campus withou…
• SparwasserSparwasser Via del Pigneto, 215 Rome Since 2015, a space for the production and enjoyment of the most disparate forms of soc…
• Street Art in OstienseOstiense is the neighborhood where Rome first stopped treating painted walls as a nuisance. It lies between the Aurelian Walls and the Tiber, south…
• Studio Pirandello – Luigi Pirandello House MuseumStudio Pirandello - Luigi Pirandello House Museum - Via Antonio Bosio, 15, 00161 Rome RM, Italy
• Terme di SuioTerme di Suio are on Via delle Terme, in the thermal area of the Suio district of Castelforte, 04021, province of Latina, on the Lazio bank of the…
• Termini StationTermini Station is in Piazza dei Cinquecento, in Rome, with two side entrances at Via Marsala 49 and Via Giolitti 40, and you can walk through it f…
• Testaccio: What to See in the Monte dei Cocci NeighborhoodTestaccio is Rome's twentieth rione, the smallest and the youngest of the historic ones. It became an independent rione in 1921, splitting off from…
• Tor MaranciaThe Museo condominiale of Tor Marancia is at Viale di Tor Marancia 63, in the ATER public housing estate of Municipio VIII. It is free to see, ther…
• Underground Rome: what you can visit beneath the cityUnderground Rome is not a place: it is a second layer of the city, often 10 or 15 meters beneath the feet of people walking downtown, and it is vis…
• Via VenetoVia Veneto - Via Vittorio Veneto, Rome
• Villa GloriVilla Glori is open: the public park on the Parioli hill can be crossed for free every day from 7 until sunset, with entrances from the piazzale of…
• Villa PaganiniVilla Paganini is open: the public park of Roma Capitale on Via Nomentana can be walked through for free every day from 07:00 to sunset, according…
• WeGilWeGil - Largo Ascianghi, 5, 00153 Roma RM