Top 10 Best of the Rest
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1. Hadrian’s Temple
Eleven huge, worn columns still stand from a Temple to Hadrian built in AD 145 by his son.
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2. Santa Maria Maddalena
The church is an elliptical Baroque gem. The 1735 façade by Giuseppe Sardi is Rome’s best Rococo monument.
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3. Pie’ di Marmo
This oversized, well-worn sandalled marble foot belonged to an unidentified ancient statue.
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4. San Lorenzo in Lucina
Founded in the 5th century, and overhauled in 1090–1118. Guido Reni did the Crucifixion altarpiece, Bernini the second chapel on the right.
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5. Palazzo di Montecitorio
Bernini’s 1670 palace has housed Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies since 1871. The south façade is original; the north is Art Nouveau.
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6. Piazza di Montecitorio
The square’s obelisk was once part of the Augustus’s giant sundial, which used to be flanked by the Ara Pacis.
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7. Palazzo Borghese
The oddly shaped “harpsichord of Rome”, begun by Vignola in 1560, was finished with a Tiber terrace by Flaminio Ponzio.
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8. Santa Maria in Via Lata
Pietro da Cortona designed the façade and vestibule (1660); Bernini the high altar (1639–43). Its 6th-century frescoes are now in the Crypta Balbi.
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9. Fontanella del Facchino
This small wall fountain (probably from the 1570s) is fashioned as a water-seller whose barrel forever spouts fresh water.
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10. Piazza Sant’Eustachio
A lovely square, home to two cafés competing for Rome’s “best cappuccino ” title, as well as an 1196 bell tower, and an excellent view of Sant’Ivo (see A Morning Stroll around the Pantheon).
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