Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio may look like an ordinary church, but it contains a rare treasure: 25 popes’ embalmed hearts. In marble urns. This was originally the parish church for the Quirinal Palace, which was built as a papal summer residence (it’s now the president’s home). The popes who inhabited the palace, from Sixtus V […]
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Fontana di Trevi
You will never be alone at the Trevi Fountain. No matter what time of day, there will always be at least a couple of other people mulling around, enjoying the view. Rome’s most famous, most enormous baroque fountain (26 meters high x 20 meters wide) was built in the 18th century at the junction of […]
