The main artery of the Jewish area is Via Portico d’Ottavia , which leads down to the Portico d’Ottavia , a not terribly well-preserved second-century BC gate, rebuilt by Augustus and dedicated to his sister in 23 BC, that was the […]
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Mon-Thurs 9am-4pm, Fri 9am-2pm, Sun 9am-noon; closed Sat & Jewish holidays; L10,000. The Ghetto’s […]
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Via dei Funari leads east out of Piazza Mattei towards Piazza Campitelli, where Santa Maria in Campitelli is a heavy, ornate church built by Carlo Reinaldi in 1667 to house an ancient image of the Virgin that had been deemed to have miraculous powers following respite from a plague. Everything […]
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Piazza Campitelli opens out onto the broad main drag of Via di Teatro di Marcello, which leads down to Piazza Bocca della Verità , past two of the city’s better-preserved Roman temples - the Temple of Portunus and the […]
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By the River Tiber you can see the remains of Ponte Rotto (Broken Bridge), all that is left of the first stone bridge to span the river. Built between 179 and 142 BC, it collapsed at the end of the sixteenth century. Further down is Ponte Fabricio […]
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