Uncover the city’s living history. Rione maps Rome’s ancient quarters dynamically — unlocking subterranean layers, hidden stories and local secrets right where you stand.
Dynamic, interactive boundaries of all of Rome’s historical rioni, colour-coded and tappable.
Every monument with photos, history and the stories beneath the stones.
Half-hidden in the green Caffarella valley, this Roman nymphaeum is a grotto-fountain of the 2nd century, its vaulted recess once lined with marble and presided over by a reclining statue of a river-god (now in the Capitoline Museums). Water still seeps from the rock and pools below, in a setting of extraordinary, almost untouched pastoral calm.
This handsome brick tomb in the Caffarella, sometimes called the "Temple of the god Rediculus", is in fact the funerary monument of Annia Regilla, the wealthy and well-connected Roman wife of the Greek magnate Herodes Atticus, who died around 160 AD — possibly, ancient gossip held, at her husband's hands, though he protested his grief extravagantly.
Striding across the Caffarella valley are surviving arches of the ancient aqueducts that once carried water into Rome from the hills to the east — among them the Aqua Marcia, built in 144 BC and famed as the finest, coldest and purest of the city's waters.
Stretching beneath the Via Appia Antica, the Catacombs of San Callisto are among the largest and most venerable in Rome — over twenty kilometres of galleries on four levels, once holding perhaps half a million tombs. Laid out from the late 2nd century AD, they became the official cemetery of the early Church of Rome, administered by the deacon Callixtus, later pope, who gave them his name.
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