Institutions, symbols and art
A walk about Rome’s civic centre and the objects through which the city has preserved its memory.
Tours from €100 per group
Capitoline Hill has held symbolic and political importance since antiquity. Its position above the Roman Forum offers a setting to discuss institutions, rituals and how power was represented in the city.
Piazza del Campidoglio was redesigned in the sixteenth century according to a project associated with Michelangelo. The shape of the square, the surrounding buildings and its orientation create an urban composition meant to be read and experienced, not only admired.
The Capitoline Museums trace their origins to Pope Sixtus IV’s 1471 donation of bronze statues to the people of Rome. Their collections, largely connected to the city, open conversations about identity, public memory and how the past has been presented to later generations.
