Statue outside Palazzo della Civilita del Lavoro, EUR area.

Southern Rome

Boasting a wealth of diversions, this huge area extends to Rome’s southern limits. Glorious ancient ruins lounge amid pea-green fields and towering umbrella pines along the cobbled Via Appia Antica, one of the world's oldest roads and pot-holed with subterranean catacombs dating to the dawn of Christianity. By contrast, post-industrial Ostiense blasts visitors straight back to the modern age with its edgy street art, superb local dining and heaving nightlife. Then there's EUR, an Orwellian quarter of wide boulevards and linear buildings.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

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    Via Appia Antica

    Southern Rome

    Via Appia Antica is a beautiful cobbled thoroughfare flanked by grassy fields, ancient Roman structures and towering pine trees.

  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 15, 2019: The San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Saint Sebastian outside the walls) is a basilica in Rome, central Italy.; Shutterstock ID 1689007471; purchase_order: 65050; job: poi; client: ; other: 1689007471

    Catacombe di San Sebastiano

    Southern Rome

    Extending beneath the Basilica di San Sebastiano, these underground burial chambers were developed in the 1st century.

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    Catacombe di San Callisto

    Southern Rome

    These are the largest and busiest of Rome’s catacombs. Founded at the end of the 2nd century and named after Pope Calixtus I, they became the official…

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    Villa dei Quintili

    Southern Rome

    Towering over green fields, this 2nd-century villa is one of Rome's unsung splendours. It was the luxurious abode of two consuls, the Quintili brothers,…

  • Basilica di San Paolo Fuori Le Mura courtyard garden.

    Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura

    Southern Rome

    The largest church in Rome after St Peter’s (and the world’s third-largest), this vast basilica stands on the site where St Paul was buried after being…

  • EUR District

    EUR District

    Southern Rome

    This Orwellian quarter of wide boulevards and linear buildings was built for an international exhibition in 1942, and although war intervened and the…

  • Galleria at Hall of Philosophers in Capitoline Museum, near Piazza del Campidoglio.

    Museo Capitoline Centrale Montemartini

    Southern Rome

    Housed in a former power station, this bold outpost of the Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) juxtaposes classical sculpture with diesel engines and…

  • Cinecittà

    Cinecittà

    Southern Rome

    Cinecittà is Italy's foremost film studio, founded in 1937 by Mussolini and used for many iconic Italian and international films. It's possible to take a…

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