TOUR IN SCOOTER CLASSIC ROME

Via dei Mille
Piazza dei Cinquecento
Via Cavour Colosseo
Arco di Costantino

The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering.

Circo Massimo

This oval basin, nearly 600 meters long, is almost entirely filled in with dirt. It was once a race track. It was made in the time of the Etruscan kings (presumably Tarquinio Prisco). Augustus adorned the brick structure with an imperial stage, which was rebuilt by Trajan, enlarged by Caracalla and restored by Constantine. During the reign of Constantine, the Circus could hold more than 200,000 spectators. Today only the outline remains (the area it occupied is now a public garden).

Via del Teatro Marcello
Piazza Bocca della Verità

It is a marble mask called Mouth of Truth (Bocca della Verità). According to popular belief it was said that any one putting his hand in this mouth and swearing falsely, could not withdraw it. The mask is situated in the atrium of St. Mary’s in Cosmedin church.

Piazza Venezia

This square took it’s name from Venezia Palace, Pope Paolo II built the Palace in 1455 while he was only a cardinal. The square was rearranged during the works at Vittorio Emanuele II monument: Venezia Palace was moved and in front of it was built a new one, the “Assicurazioni Generali di Venezia” Palace.

Largo di Torre Argentina
Corso Vittorio Emanuele

This archeological area was discovered in 1926-1930 during the works for construction of a new building. The name Torre Argenitna (Tower Argentina) derives from a nearby house of a 16th century bishop Hans Burckhardt from Strasburg (in Latin Argentorum), who called his residence Torre Argentina.
Largo Argentina was a kind of ancient Roman square with four temples facing a courtyard to the east paved with travertine, that is why it is also named Area Sacra (Holy area). Its origins come from the Republican epoch starting from the 4th century b.C

Basilica di San Pietro

The splendid square and colonnade, Bernini’s finest work, form a superb entryway to the greatest church of Christendom, dominated by the magnificent Dome of Michelangelo. The construction of this basilica, plagued by numerous obstacles and problems,was carried out by Michelangelo, Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana. The basilica rises over the foundations of a paleochristian Church, which, according to tradition, was built over the tomb of the Martyred Apostle Peter.

Piazza del Popolo
Via di Ripetta
Ara Pacis
Via del Tritone
Piazza della Repubblica

The Porta del Popolo on the north side of the Piazza marks one end, while the East is dominated by the passeggiata del Pincio. This piazza served as an exposition hall, a stadium, and a theater for popular plays. The face of the piazza changed a great deal from the 1400’s to the 1800’s, with the reconstruction of the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, the placement of the Flaminian obelisk at the center of the piazza, and the addition of neo-classical elements by Giuseppe Valadier.