08/03/2023
📍Here we are: Rome pt. 2!
🏛️ You can’t obviously miss the Castel Sant’Angelo, built at the behest of Hadrian as a burial place for himself and his family, until it became part of the Polo Museale of Lazio. Today it hosts a rich gallery of ceramics, sculptures and paintings as well as a magnificent view towards Corso Vittorio II.
🏛️ Among the hills, the Campidoglio occupies a place of excellence, which has always housed the most important state buildings in the history of Rome - until Michelangelo intervened on the square in 1534, giving it its current arrangement - and which today houses the Capitoline Museums, born from the antiquarian collections of the various popes starting from 1471.
🗺️ As for the squares the five not to be missed are Piazza Venezia with the Vittoriano, Piazza di Spagna, where the Trinità dei Monti church triumphs, Piazza Navona with the Quattro Fiumi fountain by Bernini and the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Borromini, piazza della Rotonda dominated by the Pantheon and piazza del Popolo with the church of Santa Maria del Popolo.
⛲️ Among the parks of the city it is worth spending a day at Villa Borghese, both for the view that can be enjoyed from the terrace of the Pincio and for the innumerable museums inside the gardens, first of all the Galleria Borghese, which hosts a high number of works by famous painters and sculptors such as Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael, Bernini and Canova, not to mention the magnificent Italian and English gardens that can be admired throughout the park. A very short distance away is also the National Gallery, with 20,000 works of modern and contemporary art with an invaluable heritage of Italian and foreign masterpieces.