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The Spanish Steps and Villa Borghese : Editor's choice

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  • The artist’s studio walls are embedded with fragments of statuary.

  • German author Goethe lived here from 1786 to 1788 (see Wolfgang Goethe), and his letters are on display.

  • The museum covers Italian art from the late 1800s to mid-1900s.

  • The national modern art museum covers 19th- and 20th-century works. Strongest in Italian art, although foreigners feature too.

  • The gallery features work by Tintoretto, Lotto and Veronese.

  • Michelangelo used the Arch of Titus as the model for this gateway.

  • Carlo Fontana was responsible for these late 17th-century “twin” churches, although Bernini guided him in the decoration of the more elaborate Montesanto.

  • This 6th-century church, restructured in 1702–08, has a trompe-l’oeil vault above the altar.

  • SS Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso

    Roman Baroque church (1669) by Pietro da Cortona, who designed the tribune, cupola and stuccoes.

  • Contains Italy’s top Etruscan collection, celebrating the peninsula’s first great civilization (8th to 3rd centuries BC).

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