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.
This elegant, curving boulevard was laid out in the 1880s through the gardens of the former Ludovisi estate, and by the mid-20th century it had become the most glamorous street in Italy. In the late 1950s its grand hotels and pavement cafés were the stage for the international jet set, the film stars and the press photographers who chased them.
This modest garden pavilion holds a unique treasure: the only ceiling painting Caravaggio is known to have made. Around 1597 the young, revolutionary painter decorated a small upstairs room with "Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto", an extraordinary oil-on-plaster image of the three gods seen from sharply below, rumoured to bear the artist's own features.
Beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione lies one of the most haunting sights in Rome: five small chapels decorated entirely with the bones of an estimated 3,700 Capuchin friars, arranged into chandeliers, arches, rosettes and patterns by their surviving brothers between the 1730s and the 1870s.
Tucked at the foot of Via Veneto on Piazza Barberini, Bernini's little Fountain of the Bees of 1644 is easy to miss beside his grander Triton Fountain nearby. It takes the form of a great open marble scallop shell on which three bees — the heraldic emblem of the Barberini family of Pope Urban VIII — appear to have settled to drink.