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's beautiful elongated oval is no accident of town planning — it preserves the exact shape of the Stadium of Domitian, built around 86 AD for Greek-style athletic games, whose ruined arcades still survive a few metres below the pavement (and can be visited). For centuries this was where Romans raced, and later where the square was flooded in summer for mock naval games and splashing crowds.
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Tucked inside the courtyard of Rome's old university — "La Sapienza" — Sant'Ivo (1642–1660) is the boldest invention of Francesco Borromini, the tormented genius of the Baroque. Where his rivals worked with circles and squares, Borromini built the plan on a six-pointed star, a hexagram with alternately convex and concave bays, said to allude to the bee of the Barberini pope and to divine wisdom.
The last great palace built for the family of a pope, Palazzo Braschi was begun in 1792 for the relatives of Pius VI — an audacious project just as the age of papal nepotism was ending and revolution was sweeping Europe. Its showpiece is a magnificent staircase of red granite columns and stuccoes by Cosimo Morelli, one of the grandest interiors of late-18th-century Rome.
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