This collection gathers places and events linked to Aurelian Walls, the ancient defensive wall with gates, towers and sections open to walk along. It suits readers planning a historic walk, looking for points of interest along the walls, or wanting to understand how the city was defended.

Places: Aurelian Walls (25)

• Arch of DrususThe Arch of Drusus is on Via di Porta San Sebastiano, at the start of Via Appia Antica, a few meters inside Porta San Sebastiano, and you look at i…
• Aurelian WallsThe Aurelian Walls are the city walls built in Rome between 270 and 275 by Aurelian to defend the Capital from the Alemanni, who had invaded Italy.
• Basilica of the Holy Cross in JerusalemThe Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem stands at Piazza di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme 12, 00185 Rome, in the Esquilino district, leaning again…
• Castrense AmphitheaterThe Castrense Amphitheater stands in Piazza di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, attached to the basilica and walled into the Aurelian Walls. From outsid…
• Circolo GAP, ARCI club in San LorenzoCircolo GAP is an ARCI club in San Lorenzo, at Via dei Sabelli 23, just outside the Aurelian Walls. It hosts concerts and DJ sets, shows, poetry, m…
• Colombari di Vigna CodiniThe Vigna Codini columbaria can't be visited today: the Appia Antica Archaeological Park writes that access is currently suspended because safety c…
• Domine Quo Vadis ChurchDomine Quo Vadis Church - Via Appia Antica, 51, 00179 Rome RM
• Monte dei Cocci, Monte TestaccioMonte dei Cocci can be visited only by reservation, groups with their own guide and individuals on the dates in the calendar: the number is the sin…
• Museum of the WallsMuseum of the Walls - Via di Porta San Sebastiano, 18, 00179 Rome RM, Italy
• National Museum of Musical InstrumentsNational Museum of Musical Instruments - Piazza di S. Croce in Gerusalemme, 9/a, 00185 Rome
• Non-Catholic Cemetery in RomeNon-Catholic Cemetery in Rome - Via Caio Cestio, 6, 00153 Roma RM
• Oratorio di San Giovanni in OleoOratorio di San Giovanni in Oleo is closed to the public: it has no opening hours, no ticket office and no custodian on site. It stands on Via di P…
• PescheriaPescheria Via Galeazzo Alessi, 57/59 Roma Where a real fish shop used to be, there is now a listening, recording and meetin…
• Porta del PopoloPorta del Popolo is the northern gate of the Aurelian Walls, the ancient Porta Flaminia. For almost 1,800 years it was the entrance to Rome for any…
• Porta MaggiorePorta Maggiore is the point in Rome where two imperial aqueducts, the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus, cross together over two consular roads, Via…
• Porta MetroniaPorta Metronia can be seen for free from the street, in Piazza di Porta Metronia, on the stretch of the Aurelian Walls between San Giovanni in Late…
• Porta PiaPorta Pia is the gate of the Aurelian Walls that Pope Pius IV had built between 1561 and 1565 to a design by Michelangelo Buonarroti, and it was th…
• Porta PincianaPorta Pinciana can be seen free from the street at any hour: it stands at the top of Via Vittorio Veneto, where the street meets the Aurelian Walls…
• Porta San PaoloPorta San Paolo is the gate of the Aurelian Walls that closes the urban line to the south between the Aventine and Testaccio, at the start of Via O…
• Porta San SebastianoPorta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best preserved of the gates in the defensive circuit of Rome's Aurelian Walls.
• Pyramid of CestiusPhoto: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tip_of_Pyramid_of_Caius_Cestius.jpg…
• San Cesareo de AppiaSan Cesareo de Appia is at Via di Porta San Sebastiano 2, about 30 meters past the point where Piazzale Numa Pompilio narrows and the road becomes…
• San Giovanni a Porta LatinaSan Giovanni a Porta Latina is an early Christian basilica located at via di Porta Latina 17, inside the Aurelian Walls, a few hundred meters from…
• 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…
• Tomb of the ScipiosThe Tomb of the Scipios opens along the first stretch of Via Appia Antica, inside the Aurelian Walls and a few hundred meters from Porta San Sebast…