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 second-largest church in Rome after St Peter's, San Paolo "outside the walls" was founded by the emperor Constantine over the burial place of the Apostle Paul, beheaded nearby in the 1st century, and enlarged into a vast basilica that for centuries was the grandest in the city.
The most surprising museum in Rome stages a collision of two worlds. When the Capitoline Museums needed extra space in 1997, classical Roman statues were moved temporarily into a decommissioned early-20th-century thermoelectric power station — and the juxtaposition was so striking that it became permanent.
The skeletal steel drum of the Gazometro towers over Ostiense like an industrial cathedral. Built in the 1930s, it was the largest of a cluster of gas-holders that stored the city's coal gas — its telescopic frame, about 90 metres tall, rising and falling with the volume of gas inside.