This collection gathers historic and contemporary squares, with surrounding buildings, fountains, monuments, and places to pause. It suits readers who look for landmarks to find their way around the city and want to understand how squares organize public life and movement between neighborhoods.

Places: Square (82)

• Allumiere (RM)Allumiere sits at 522 meters above sea level in the Monti della Tolfa, in the province of Rome, and its administrative center and its tourist cente…
• Ariccia (RM)Ariccia is the town of the fraschette, one of our favorite destinations in the Castelli Romani for spending a day or an evening with friends withou…
• Barcaccia FountainBarcaccia Fountain - Piazza di Spagna, 00187 Rome RM
• Baroque Rome: An Itinerary Through Churches, Piazzas and FountainsRoman Baroque is not a list of monuments. It is a system. Between 1623, when Urban VIII Barberini ascends to the papal throne, and 1667, when Alexa…
• Basilica of Santa Maria in TrastevereBasilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere - Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere, 00153 Rome RM
• Basilica of Santa Maria sopra MinervaBasilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva - Piazza della Minerva, 42, 00186 Rome RM
• Bernini in Rome: an itinerary through his worksGian Lorenzo Bernini worked in Rome for almost 60 years, under eight popes, and the result is that today there is no honest way of crossing the cen…
• Campo de’ FioriCampo de' Fiori, full of bars and restaurants and home to the historic neighborhood market, is the only historic piazza in Rome with no church, bet…
• Capitoline HillCapitoline Hill, also called Mount Capitoline (Mons Capitolinus), is one of the Seven Hills on which Rome was founded.
• Castel San Pietro Romano (RM)Castel San Pietro Romano is a small Italian town with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio.
• CentocelleCentocelle is visited without a ticket. The Centocelle Archaeological Park, along Via Casilina between Via di Centocelle and Viale Palmiro Togliatt…
• CeriCeri is an inhabited hamlet of the Municipality of Cerveteri, built on a tuff cliff, and can be visited freely: you enter the village on foot, with…
• Colonna (RM)Colonna is a small town of the Castelli Romani, set on the northern slopes of the Colli Albani between the A1 highway and Via Casilina, and it can…
• Column of Marcus AureliusThe Column of Marcus Aurelius rises in the middle of Piazza Colonna, in the heart of the Campus Martius, and still stands exactly where it was plan…
• Column of the Immaculate ConceptionThe Column of the Immaculate Conception stands in piazza Mignanelli, the stretch of piazza di Spagna that widens in front of Palazzo di Propaganda…
• CoppedèCoppedè - Piazza Mincio 3, Rome
• Corso Vittorio Tureen – Fontana della TerrinaCorso Vittorio Tureen - Fontana della Terrina - Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 241, 00186 Rome RM
• 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…
• Esquiline ObeliskThe Esquiline Obelisk is the red granite monolith planted in the middle of Piazza dell'Esquilino, behind the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, that…
• Esquiline HillThe Esquilino is Rome's Rione XV, the one between Termini station and Porta Maggiore, and what to see here comes down to five things: Piazza Vittor…
• EUR – Esposizione Universale RomaEUR, Esposizione Universale Roma, occupies the southwestern sector of the city, between via Cristoforo Colombo and via Laurentina, in Municipio IX.…
• Filacciano (RM)Filacciano is at Via Oreste Leonardi 5, postal code 00060, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, on the tuff spur that closes the Roman Tiber Valley t…
• FiumicinoIllustration generated with artificial intelligence: it is not a photograph of the Fiumicino canal port. It only evokes the landscape. Where Fiumic…
• Flaminian ObeliskThe Flaminian Obelisk is the red granite monolith that rises in the middle of Piazza del Popolo, at the exact point where the three streets of the…
• 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…
• Fontanella degli innamoratiCouples who drink at the Fontanella degli innamorati will stay in love and faithful forever.
• Forum BoariumForum Boarium - Via della Greca, 00186 Rome RM
• Fountain of the Four RiversFountain of the Four Rivers - Piazza Navona Rome
• 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…
• 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…
• Institute for the History of the Italian RisorgimentoThe Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento, in the Vittoriano complex, is based in the Central Museum of the Risorgimento which, bes…
• Largo Torre Argentina – Sacred Area of Campo MarzioLargo Torre Argentina - Sacred Area of Campo Marzio - Largo di Torre Argentina, 00186 Roma RM
• Lateran ObeliskThe Lateran Obelisk, in the center of Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, is the tallest Egyptian obelisk in the world: a monolith of red Aswan granit…
• 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…
• Macuteo ObeliskThe Macuteo Obelisk is the small red granite monolith set in the middle of the fountain in Piazza della Rotonda, right in front of the portico of t…
• 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…
• Mercato di San CosimatoMercato di San Cosimato is in piazza di San Cosimato, in Trastevere, with the fixed stalls lined up along via Agostino Bertani, and it's a neighbor…
• Montecitorio – Chamber of DeputiesPalazzo Montecitorio, seat of the Chamber of Deputies, occupies the square of the same name in Rione Colonna, about 100 meters from Via del Corso a…
• Montecitorio ObeliskThe Montecitorio obelisk is the red granite monolith that rises in the center of the square in front of the Chamber of Deputies, between the Panthe…
• Monterotondo (RM)Monterotondo is a city of about 41,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Rome, at 165 meters above sea level, on a hill overlooking the Tiber…
• Moro FountainThe Moro Fountain closes the south end of Piazza Navona, on the side of Via di Pasquino and of the palace that now houses the Museo di Roma at Pala…
• Moses FountainThe Moses Fountain is in Piazza di San Bernardo, in 00185 Rome, and it isn't a fountain like the others: it's the visible head of an aqueduct. It's…
• Neptune FountainThe Neptune Fountain closes the north side of Piazza Navona, at the opposite end from the Moor Fountain and about 30 steps from Bernini's Four Rive…
• Obelisco AgonaleThe Obelisco Agonale is the red granite monolith that rises in the middle of Piazza Navona, planted on the artificial rock of Gian Lorenzo Bernini'…
• Obelisco della MinervaThe Minerva Obelisk is the smallest of Rome's 13 ancient obelisks and, in all likelihood, the most photographed in relation to its height: a red gr…
• Obelisco SallustianoThe Sallustiano Obelisk is the red granite monolith that towers at the top of the Spanish Steps, in front of the facade of the church of Trinità de…
• Obelisco VaticanoThe Vatican Obelisk is the red granite monolith set in the middle of St. Peter's Square, in front of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica, in the hea…
• Palace of the Conservators on Capitoline HillPalace of the Conservators on Capitoline Hill - Piazza del Campidoglio, 4, 00186 Rome RM, Italy
• PasquinoPasquino is the marble torso propped against the northwest corner of Palazzo Braschi, in the square that since the 16th century has ended up taking…
• Piazza BarberiniPiazza Barberini is in Rome, postal code 00187, at the intersection of Via del Tritone, Via Sistina, Via Veneto, Via Barberini and Via delle Quattr…
• Piazza ColonnaPiazza Colonna in Rome takes its name from the Column of Marcus Aurelius that has stood here since antiquity, and that also gives its name to the C…
• Piazza del PopoloPiazza del Popolo is a symbolic place for all Romans: many events, facts, myths and legends of the city have been linked to this square since ancie…
• Piazza del QuirinalePiazza del Quirinale is the most beautiful free panoramic terrace in the center of Rome, and nobody sells it to you as such because you don't pay f…
• 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…
• Piazza di Sant’IgnazioPiazza di Sant'Ignazio is in the historic center of Rome, between Via del Corso and the Pantheon, in front of the church of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola.…
• Piazza di Santa Maria in TrasteverePiazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere is the central square of Rione XIII, an irregular open space in front of the basilica of the same name, with an…
• Piazza di SienaPiazza di Siena is the green ellipse set inside Villa Borghese that every May becomes the stage of the Concorso Ippico Internazionale, one of the h…
• Piazza di SpagnaPiazza di Spagna, with its 'barcaccia' and the Trinità dei Monti staircase, is one of the most famous in Rome. The square owes its name to Palazzo…
• Piazza Farnese and Palazzo FarnesePiazza Farnese is free to cross at any hour. The palace that gives it its name can be visited only on a guided tour booked and paid for in advance…
• Piazza MatteiPiazza Mattei is in the Sant'Angelo rione, in Rome's historic center, between Via dei Funari, Via della Reginella and Via Paganica, a few minutes'…
• Piazza NavonaPiazza Navona - Piazza Navona, 00186 Rome RM
• Piazza San PietroPiazza San Pietro is the great colonnaded square that stands in front of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini b…
• Piazza VeneziaPiazza Venezia is the point where five major roads of Rome meet in front of the Vittoriano: Via del Corso, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Via del Teatro d…
• Piazza Vittorio Emanuele IIPiazza Vittorio Emanuele II is in the Esquilino, postal code 00185, and is public land of Roma Capitale: the square and the arcades can be crossed…
• Porta Alchemica of Piazza VittorioPorta Alchemica of Piazza Vittorio - Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 00185 Rome RM
• 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 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…
• Priverno (LT)Priverno (LT) - Priverno (LT)
• Quirinal ObeliskThe Quirinal Obelisk rises in the middle of the highest square in Rome, wedged between the two colossi of the Dioscuri holding back their horses an…
• Rione Campo Marzio: What to SeeRione Campo Marzio, Rione IV of Rome, can be walked freely and without a ticket: Piazza del Popolo, Piazza di Spagna, the Trinità dei Monti Steps,…
• Rione Ponte: What to SeeRione Ponte, the fifth of the 22 historic rioni of Rome, occupies the bend of the Tiber in front of Castel Sant'Angelo and is visited on foot, for…
• Rione Regola: What to SeeRione Regola, the seventh of Rome's historic rioni, is toured on foot and without a ticket: streets, squares and facades are public space, from the…
• 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…
• Rione Trevi: What to SeeRione Trevi, rione II of Rome, can be walked freely and for free, but since February 2, 2026 non-residents pay €2 to go down into the inner perimet…
• Temple of PortunusThe Temple of Portunus is the small rectangular temple on a high podium that you see in Piazza della Bocca della Verità, at the corner of Via di Po…
• 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…
• The Talking Statues of RomeThe talking statues of Rome are six sculptures scattered around the historic center on which, from the 16th century onward, Romans secretly posted…
• Trajan’s ForumThe Forum of Trajan is the last, the largest and the most spectacular of the Imperial Forums: a monumental square inaugurated in 112 AD that, with…
• Trevi FountainTrevi Fountain is the largest and among the most famous fountains in Rome.
• Triton FountainThe Triton Fountain, a work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is in Rome in Piazza Barberini.
• Turtle FountainPhoto: Rijksmuseum, CC0 license, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fontana_delle_Tartarughe,_RP-F-F80027.jpg) The Turt…
• Vatican CityVatican City is a sovereign state of 0.44 square kilometers enclosed within Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber, and you enter it from Piazza San…