This collection gathers mausoleums, monumental tombs, and funerary chapels from antiquity to the modern era, with architecture, inscriptions, and decoration dedicated to the dead. It suits readers who want to see how the ways of remembering the dead, and the families who commissioned them, changed over time.

Places: Mausoleums and tombs (52)

• Ardeatine Caves MausoleumArdeatine Caves Mausoleum - Via Ardeatina, 174, 00179 Rome RM, Italy
• Banditaccia Necropolis – Ancient Caere: Etruscan Necropolis of CerveteriThe “Banditaccia Necropolis” in Cerveteri is the main burial area of the ancient Etruscan city of Caere (400 hectares) and one of the most evocativ…
• Barbarano Romano (VT)You reach Barbarano Romano (VT) by car along Via Cassia and then on the provincial roads of the lower Tuscia, or by Cotral buses, which connect the…
• Basilica of Sant’Agnese fuori le MuraThe Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura is at Via Nomentana 349, in Rome, in a part of the city where the ancient consular road still runs straig…
• Capuchin Friars Museum and Ossuary CryptThe Capuchin Friars Museum and its famous ossuary crypt, inaugurated on June 26, 2012, at the wish of the Roman Province of the Friars Minor Capuch…
• Castel d’AssoCastel d’Asso is the easiest Etruscan rock-cut necropolis to reach in the whole Tuscia: nine kilometers from Viterbo, a paved road up to a dirt par…
• Castel Sant'AngeloCastel Sant'Angelo (or Mole Adrianorum or Castellum Crescentii in the 10th-12th centuries), also known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian, is located on t…
• Catacombs of PretestatoYou don't visit the Catacombs of Pretestato by showing up at the gate: they are an underground Christian cemetery at via Appia Pignatelli 11, run b…
• Cerveteri (RM)Cerveteri is a little over half an hour from Rome by car: 42 kilometers along the Aurelia or the Rome-Civitavecchia highway, exit Cerveteri-Ladispo…
• 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…
• Columbarium of Pomponio HylasThe Columbarium of Pomponio Hylas is an underground burial chamber of the 1st century AD located at Via di Porta Latina 10, inside Parco degli Scip…
• Hypogeum of the AureliiThe Hypogeum of the Aurelii is at Via Luigi Luzzatti 2, at the corner with Viale Manzoni, and it isn't open to the public at regular hours. It's ru…
• Janiculum Ossuary MausoleumJaniculum Ossuary Mausoleum - Via Garibaldi, 29, 00153 Rome RM, Italy
• 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…
• Mausoleum of AugustusAfter 14 long years of closure for works, the monument symbol of imperial power: the Mausoleum of Augustus reopens in 2021. A fortress in the Middl…
• Mausoleum of Campo Barbarico and Tomb of Sant’UrbanoMausoleum of Campo Barbarico and Tomb of Sant'Urbano: Campo Barbarico visible from outside. Sant'Urbano acquired by the State and made part of the…
• Mausoleum of Casal RotondoMausoleum of Casal Rotondo: Free to view along the sixth mile of Via Appia Antica.
• Mausoleum of Cecilia MetellaThe Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella is the great cylindrical tomb that stands just before the third mile of Via Appia Antica, in Rome, and is probably…
• Mausoleum of GallienusMausoleum of Gallienus: Visible from the road on Via Appia Antica (no. 610), at the ninth mile.
• Mausoleum of Lucilius PaetusMausoleum of Lucilius Paetus: Temporarily closed to the public for PNRR Caput Mundi restoration work, visible from outside.
• Mausoleum of Menenius AgrippaMausoleum of Menenius Agrippa: Visible from outside in a fenced green area along Via Nomentana.
• Mausoleum of Monte del GranoMausoleum of Monte del Grano: Open by mandatory reservation through the Contact Center 060608 (€4/€3, free with MIC card).
• Mausoleum of Saint Helena and Catacombs of Saints Marcellinus and PeterThe Mausoleum of Saint Helena and the Catacombs of Saints Marcellinus and Peter make up, at number 641 Via Casilina, the most imposing Constantinia…
• Mausoleum of Santa CostanzaThe Mausoleum of Santa Costanza is at number 349 on Via Nomentana, inside the monumental complex of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, a little over two ki…
• Mausoleum of the GordiansMausoleum of the Gordians: Visible from outside inside Villa Gordiani archaeological park, along Via Prenestina.
• Mausoleum of the MedusaMausoleum of the Medusa: Visible inside the Policlinico Umberto I hospital complex on Viale Condorelli.
• Mausoleum of the PlautiiMausoleum of the Plautii: Visible from outside along the Aniene River near Ponte Lucano.
• MentanaMentana is the town where the Italian Risorgimento stopped for three years. On November 3, 1867 Garibaldi's volunteers were beaten here, 22 kilomet…
• Monte Orlando ParkThe Monte Orlando urban regional park is a protected natural area in the municipality of Gaeta, in the province of Latina, located on the town's pr…
• Monterozzi Necropolis of TarquiniaThe Monterozzi Necropolis is the place where you can see the most important ancient painting of the western Mediterranean, and almost nobody in Rom…
• 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…
• Necropolis of Porto at Isola SacraThe Necropolis of Porto at Isola Sacra is the cemetery of the common people of Portus. It is at Via Monte Spinoncia 52 in Fiumicino, opens Tuesday…
• Non-Catholic Cemetery in RomeNon-Catholic Cemetery in Rome - Via Caio Cestio, 6, 00153 Roma RM
• NorchiaNorchia can be visited freely, on foot, with no ticket and no hours, but in practice you reach it only by car and you walk in a gorge where the pat…
• Parco degli ScipioniParco degli Scipioni lies between Via di Porta Latina and Via di Porta San Sebastiano in the historic center of Rome, in the Celio rione, inside th…
• 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…
• 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…
• Republican Tombs of Via StatiliaRepublican Tombs of Via Statilia: Open on special scheduled dates by reservation through the Contact Center 060608.
• Saxa Rubra Mausoleums (Tombs of Fadilla and the Nasonii)Saxa Rubra Mausoleums: Open on scheduled dates by reservation.
• Temple and Mausoleum of Minerva MedicaTemple and Mausoleum of Minerva Medica: Visible from outside along Via Giolitti, opened on special occasions by the Soprintendenza.
• Tomb of GetaTomb of Geta: Free to view at number 41 of Via Appia Antica.
• Tomb of Marcus Vergilius EurysacesTomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces: Free to view from outside in Piazzale Labicano (Porta Maggiore).
• Tomb of NeroThe Tomb of Nero is viewed from the street, free and at any hour: it is the sepulcher of Publio Vibio Mariano, a marble sarcophagus of the 3rd cent…
• Tomb of PriscillaTomb of Priscilla: Visible from outside at Via Appia Antica 76, interior open to groups on request (065135316).
• 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…
• Tombs of Via Latina (Barberini, Valerii, Pancratii)Tombs of Via Latina: Temporarily closed for PNRR restoration work, available through a virtual tour on MUVI Appia.
• TorpignattaraYou see Torpignattara on foot and without a ticket: streets, arches of the Alexandrine aqueduct and murals can all be seen from the public road. Th…
• Torrione PrenestinoTorrione Prenestino: Free to view from the roadside of Via Prenestina, no access inside.
• 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…
• Vatican Necropolis and Scavi di San PietroThere is only one way to book the necropolis under St. Peter's Basilica: the request form on the website of the Fabbrica di San Pietro. No reseller…
• Verano CemeteryThe monumental municipal cemetery Campo Verano, popularly known as Cimitero del Verano, or simply as Verano, is located in the Tiburtino district,…
• Via Portuense NecropolisVia Portuense Necropolis - Via Portuense, 317, 00149 Rome RM, Italy