The American Academy in Rome and the
Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies
The places where we studied and lived for six
weeks.
The Roman Forum
The center of it all!
The Palatine Hill
Site of early settlements and the palace of the
emperors.
The Etruscans
Those wild predecessors of the Romans.
Early Rome and the Latins
Rome didn't spring out of nowhere.
Veii and Cosa
An Etruscan city and a Roman Colony
The Capitoline Hill
Once the site of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus
Maximus
Praeneste
Site of an enormous temple to Diana
Lake Nemi and Tusculum
Cato the Elder came from Tusculum. Lake Nemi sits
in a magnificent volcanic crater.
Musei Montemartini
Once the main power plant of Rome, now an
important collection of sculpture.
The Imperial Fora
The fora of Julius Caesar, Augustus, and Trajan
Tarracina and the Villa of Tiberius
Site of a monumental temple to Jupiter Anxur,
with Tiberius's villa along the coast.
Alba Fucens
Well preserved Roman colony. Also the so called
"Villa of Horace"
Domus Aurea
Nero's "Golden House"
Museo Nazionale Romano
The Palazzo Massimo and Palazzo Altemps
The Villa of Hadrian and the Villa d'Este
The best in country living in both imperial times
and modern times!
The Baths of Caracalla
Anybody got some soap?
Ostia and Isola Sacra
The port of Rome.
The Vatican
St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums
EUR
Museum with numerous models, including one of the entire
city circa 330 CE
Other sites in Rome
Everything from manubial temples to the Flavian
Amphitheater.
All Around Rome
Places not related to the classics.
Pompeii
The lost city and its destroyer