This collection gathers lookouts and scenic points where you can view the city and the surrounding countryside. It suits anyone looking for an open view for photos, an afternoon outdoors, or a quiet stop added to a route through town.

Places: Viewpoints (35)

• Acqua Paola FountainAcqua Paola Fountain Via Garibaldi, Rome On the slopes of the Janiculum, one of the most beautiful and evocative fountains…
• Ala Brasini – Vittoriano ComplexAla Brasini - Vittoriano Complex - Via di S. Pietro in Carcere, 00186 Rome RM, Italy
• Altar of the Fatherland (Vittoriano)Altar of the Fatherland (Vittoriano), Piazza Venezia, 00186 Rome RM, Italy
• Basilica of Santa Maria MaggioreThe Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the four papal basilicas, stands on top of the Esquiline Hill and is the only one to have preserved it…
• Boville Ernica (FR)Boville Ernica is a comune in the province of Frosinone of about 8,300 inhabitants (a few hundred inside the walls), at 487 meters above sea level…
• Casa dei Cavalieri di RodiCasa dei Cavalieri di Rodi is one of the most unusual buildings in the center of Rome: a 15th-century palace built over the ruins of the Forum of A…
• Castel Gandolfo (RM)Castel Gandolfo can be reached from Rome in just under an hour. The regional train on the Roma Termini - Albano Laziale line stops at Castel Gandol…
• 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.
• Castro dei Volsci (FR)Castro dei Volsci is a municipality of about 4,300 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, at an elevation of 384 meters, on the last spur of the…
• Central Museum of the RisorgimentoCentral Museum of the Risorgimento - Via di S. Pietro in Carcere, 00186 Rome RM, Italy
• 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…
• Frascati (RM)Frascati (RM) - Frascati 00044 RM
• Greccio Sanctuary (RI)Some places tell their own story and some ask to be explained. The Greccio sanctuary belongs to the second kind: if you come up here without knowin…
• Janiculum HillThe Janiculum Hill viewpoint is one of those places that takes your breath away from the very first moment! Certainly the most evocative and romant…
• Lake Vico Nature ReserveThe Lake Vico Nature Reserve is a protected natural area located in the municipalities of Ronciglione and Caprarola, in the province of Viterbo.
• Marmore Falls (TR)Marmore Falls is located in Marmore, a hamlet of Terni, along State Road 209 Valnerina, about seven kilometers from the center of Terni and a littl…
• Montefiascone (VT)Montefiascone is in the province of Viterbo, in the Upper Tuscia of Lazio, perched on the cone of an ancient volcano that closes off the southeast…
• Nemi (RM)Nemi (RM) - Piazza Roma, 00074 Nemi RM
• Orange GardenOrange Garden - Entrances: piazza Pietro d'Illiria, Via di S. Sabina, Clivio di Rocca Savella
• Paganico Sabino (RI)Paganico Sabino is a municipality of just over 150 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, at 720 meters above sea level on the slopes of Monte Cervi…
• 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…
• PincioYou can reach the Pincio on foot from Piazza del Popolo by climbing the Salita del Pincio and Viale Gabriele d'Annunzio, or from Viale delle Magnol…
• Poggio Catino (RI)Poggio Catino is a municipality of just under 1,300 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, in Sabina, at an elevation of 387 meters, with an area of…
• 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 PalatinoPonte Palatino crosses the Tiber between Piazza della Bocca della Verità and Trastevere, and for once the most interesting thing is not the bridge:…
• Rione Ripa: What to SeeRione Ripa, the 12th of Rome's historic rioni, is explored on foot and almost all of it is free: streets, squares, viewpoints, city gardens and chu…
• Rocca di Papa (RM)Rocca di Papa is the perched town that closes off the eastern side of the Castelli Romani amphitheater, on the slope of Monte Cavo, the ancient Mon…
• Roccasecca (FR)Roccasecca is in the province of Frosinone, in Ciociaria, about 130 km from Rome, which can be covered in an hour and a half on the A1 motorway (Ca…
• Rome ViewpointsThe Rome viewpoints that are really worth it are almost all free and outdoors: the Pincio terrace above Piazza del Popolo, which the Sovrintendenza…
• Sant’Onofrio al GianicoloSant’Onofrio al Gianicolo is a 15th-century convent complex facing the street of the same name, halfway up the slope between the Tiber embankment a…
• Sutri (VT)Sutri (VT) is about 50 kilometers north of Rome, in Viterbo Province, perched on a tuff spur that overlooks Via Cassia just before Lake Vico. The c…
• TusculumYou can visit Tusculum in a day from Roma Termini, but only if you accept a fact the park itself states plainly: the archaeological area is not ser…
• Via PiccolominiVia Piccolomini - Via Nicolò Piccolomini
• Villa del Priorato di MaltaVilla del Priorato di Malta - Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 4, 00153 Roma RM
• 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…