Discover Campitelli’s 11 best spots for your trip in Rome

• 1Iron Age huts found here align closely with the legendary founding site of Rome
• 2The English word 'palace' derives from Palatium, the Latin name for this hill
• 3Emperors built their sprawling residences here, with ruins overlooking both the Roman Forum and Circus Maximus

• 1Built to honor Victor Emmanuel II, Italy's first king after unification
• 2Houses the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath an eternal flame, with periodic changing-of-the-guard ceremonies
• 3Its construction required demolishing part of the medieval city, sparking decades of local criticism

• 1Founded in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated bronze statues to Rome, making it the oldest public museum in the world
• 2The museum spans two palaces on Capitoline Hill designed by Michelangelo, linked by an underground Tabularium passage with views over the Roman Forum
• 3Home to the Capitoline Wolf, colossal fragments of a statue of Constantine, and the original gilt-bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

• 1Served for centuries as the political, religious, and commercial heart of ancient Rome, hosting elections, trials, and public speeches
• 2The site includes remains of temples, basilicas, and triumphal arches that once anchored the ancient city's civic life
• 3Combined ticketing links the Forum with the Colosseum and Palatine Hill on a single entry

• 1It was erected to commemorate Constantine's victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
• 2Much of its sculpted relief was reused from earlier monuments honoring Trajan and Hadrian.
• 3It is considered the largest and best-preserved ancient Roman triumphal arch in existence.

• 1Cast around 175 AD, it survived medieval melting-downs only because it was mistaken for Constantine, the first Christian emperor.
• 2It's the best-preserved bronze equestrian statue surviving from antiquity.
• 3Michelangelo designed Piazza del Campidoglio in the 16th century around this statue as its geometric centerpiece.

Located on the second floor of the Capitoline Museums on Piazzale Caffarelli, with a terrace overlooking the city.

• 1Widely regarded as the world's oldest public museum.
• 2Sits atop Piazza del Campidoglio, designed by Michelangelo.
• 3Terrace offers panoramic views over the Roman Forum.

• 1Commissioned by Augustus and dedicated to his nephew Marcellus, it once held up to 20,000 spectators and served as the architectural model for the Colosseum.
• 2Its ground-level Roman arches were later converted into a fortress and then a noble residence, so modern apartments now sit directly atop the 2,000-year-old masonry.
• 3The surviving arcades stack Doric and Ionic orders in travertine, the same design vocabulary later scaled up for the Colosseum.

• 1The site began as an ancient cistern before being repurposed as a dungeon in Rome's earliest centuries.
• 2Tradition holds that Saint Peter was imprisoned here, marked by a chapel built above the site.
• 3It served as an execution site for enemies of ancient Rome.

• 1Dedicated in 46 BC, it was the first of the Imperial Fora built by Julius Caesar.
• 2Its centerpiece temple honored Venus Genetrix, whom Caesar claimed as his family's divine ancestor.
• 3It set the precedent later emperors followed by building their own adjoining fora.