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.
The "Square Colosseum" is the unmistakable emblem of EUR — a luminous travertine cube pierced by six tiers of nine arches on each face, designed in 1937 for the world's fair that the Second World War would cancel. The arch count is a coded tribute: nine letters in "Benito" and six in "Mussolini".
Crowning the highest point of EUR, this monumental church (1938–1955) was designed as the spiritual anchor of the new district. Its huge hemispherical dome, visible for miles across southern Rome, deliberately echoes the great domes of the historic city while rendering them in the stripped, geometric language of the 1930s.
Housed in EUR's monumental palaces, the Museo delle Civiltà gathers several national collections under one roof — prehistory and ethnography, the arts and traditions of Italy, and material from across the world. Its rooms range from Palaeolithic tools to musical instruments and objects gathered from every continent.
Adalberto Libera's congress hall (designed from 1938, completed in the 1950s) is one of the noblest works of Italian Rationalism. Behind a serene colonnaded portico rises a vast square hall roofed by a single soaring cross-vault of reinforced concrete — a deliberate modern echo of the great vaulted halls of imperial Rome, like the Baths of Caracalla, rendered in 20th-century engineering.
EUR's boldest contemporary landmark, the "Cloud" (2016) is the work of architect Massimiliano Fuksas — a vast, billowing free-form shape, wrapped in a translucent membrane and suspended as if floating inside a huge glass-and-steel box 175 metres long.
Built for the 1960 Rome Olympics, the Palazzo dello Sport (also known as the PalaEur or PalaLottomatica) is a triumph of engineering by Pier Luigi Nervi, the great Italian master of reinforced concrete, working with architect Marcello Piacentini.