This collection gathers places and events connected to Jewish history and culture, including synagogues, museums, memorial walks, and community celebrations. It is useful for visitors who want to learn more about this history, see the sites, and join guided visits or talks.
Places: Jewish history (16)
Arch of TitusThe Arch of Titus closes the Roman Forum on the Colosseum side, at the top of the Velia ascent, at the point where Via Sacra reached its highest el…
Catacombs of RomeThe Catacombs of Rome are the ancient underground burial areas dug by the Christian and Jewish communities on the outskirts of the city, starting f…
Jewish Catacombs of Vigna RandaniniThe Jewish catacombs of Vigna Randanini can be visited only by reservation, with an arrangement made in advance, because the burial ground lies und…
Jewish Catacombs of Villa TorloniaThe Jewish Catacombs of Villa Torlonia cannot be visited: the Sovraintendenza capitolina says so plainly on the page dedicated to the villa, and th…
Jewish Museum of RomeJewish Museum of Rome - Jewish Museum Entrance, Synagogue Entrance - Lungotevere de' Cenci, Via Catalana, 00186 Rome RM, Italy
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…
Pitigliano (GR)Pitigliano is in the province of Grosseto, in Tuscany, a little over two hours by car from Rome, just past the northern border of Lazio and a stone…
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…
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…
Rione Sant’Angelo: What to SeeRione Sant'Angelo, Rome's Rione XI, is public, open space: the streets, the Portico d'Ottavia at Via del Portico d'Ottavia 29 and the Turtle Founta…
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
San Gregorio della Divina PietàSan Gregorio della Divina Pietà is a very small church at the entrance to Ponte Fabricio, on the northern edge of piazza di Monte Savello, in the r…
Santa Maria in PublicolisSanta Maria in Publicolis is a small, Baroque and almost always closed church, wedged between Via in Publicolis, Via dei Falegnami and Piazza Costa…
Synagogue of Ostia AnticaThe Synagogue of Ostia Antica is inside the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica, an institute of the Ministry of Culture with its entrance at Viale…
The Jewish Ghetto of Rome: What to See and What to KnowPhoto: Falk2, license CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L06_697_Portikus_der_Octavia.jpg) The Jewish Ghe…

















