Best Places to Visit In Your Rome Tour

Rome is one of the amazing tourist places of Italy as well as its capital city which is popular for its staggering history, state-of-the-art architecture, and incomparable art and culture. Rome is also centre to some iconic landmarks such as the Fontana di Trevi, Roman Forum, Piazza Navona, its appetizing dishes, and beautiful local villas. Tourist can discover the best tourist places with rome city tour bus and experience the beauty of the city.

Bus tour rome Italy are open-top tourist buses which are the most convenient ways instead of travelling with other transports. These buses engage tourist with historical insights of every place in live audio commentary and covers all the major tourist places of Rome. Just take a roma city tour bus and relish the famous sights of Rome at your own comfort.

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Best Artworks to Explore in Rome

1 Diego velazquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650), A La Galleria Doria Pamphili, via del Corso

Diego Velazquez’s popular portrait was influenced by Francis Bacon’s screaming popes. It is considered as the finest artwork in the Rome history by many experts. The work is kept in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, the privately owned palazzo, constructed by Giambattista Pamphili and is still owned by his family. Other notable Paintings by Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael, Guercino and Carracci are also displayed here.

2 Ceiling paintings by Caravaggio and Guercino, Casino dell’Aurora, Via Aurora

The Villa Ludovisi, or the Casino dell’Aurora came into spotlight this year when the 2,200 sq. m palazzo near the Porta Pinciana auctioned on sale for a valuable final price, around half a billion euros. And the media publicized Caravaggio’s classic oil painting on a ceiling, which depicted gods mounted on mythological animal, encircling a flickering huge heavenly sphere. The villa takes its name from Guercino’s fresco of Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn who is displayed riding over colonnades in a horse drawn carriage.

3 Tomb of Pope Julius II (1545), the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Monti District

Formerly, Michelangelo’s original design for Pope Julius II’s colossal tomb was planned for Saint Peter’s Basilica and assumed to include 47 giant-sized figures. At last, the artist designed a shorter version of the monument for the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, in Monti district. The structure is ruled by a giant-size, horned Moses, inspired from Michelangelo’s original design.

4 Ara Pacis (9BC), Near Piazza del Popolo

The Roman Senate deputed the altar to indicate Augustus’s triumphant return in 13BC from a three-year campaign in Spain and Gaul. It is one of the greatest existing artworks of the emperor’s Roman building spree, dedicated to Pax, the goddess of Peace. In 1938, Mussolini built a pavilion to collect and preserve the ancient structure, which was substitutes with the Richard Meier-designed Ara Pacis Museum in 2006.

5 Raphael’s Frescoes in the Villa Farnesina, Trastevere district

In 1518, Raphael’s ceiling frescoes painted a charismatic and lavish diner feast, throwed by the immensely rich Sienese banker, Agostino Chigi, for princes, poets, cardinals and popes at his Rome mansion. Two prime panels illustrating a divine council and wedding banquet are framed by richly-detailed festoons, cherubs and views from the myth of Love and Psyche. The adjoining Loggia di Galatea derives its name from Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea (1512). The villa also exaggerates frescoes by artists including Sebastiano del Piombo and Baldassarre Peruzzi.