Gianicolense
District of Rome
Latium - Italy

Janiculum

The Janiculum is a hill in western Rome, Italy. Although the second-tallest hill (the tallest being Monte Mario) in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city.

Located at 41.8917, 12.4611 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Hills of Rome

Trastevere

Trastevere is a, with the accent on the second syllable. Its logo is a golden head of a lion on a red background, the meaning of which is uncertain. To the north, Trastevere borders on to the XIV rione, Borgo.

Located at 41.8872, 12.4656 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Rioni of Rome, Restaurant districts and streets

Santa Maria in Trastevere

The Basilica of Our Lady in Trastevere (Italian: Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere) is a titular minor basilica, one of the oldest Churches of Rome, perhaps the first in which Mass was openly celebrated. The basic floor plan and wall structure of the church date back to the 340s, The first sanctuary was built in 221 and 227 by Pope Calixtus I and later completed by Pope Julius I

Located at 41.8894, 12.4697 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Titular churches in Rome, Basilica churches in Rome, Mosaics, 1140s architecture, Religious buildings completed in 1702, Burials at Santa Maria in Trastevere, 4th-century church buildings, Burial places of popes, Romanesque architecture in Lazio

San Pietro in Montorio

San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, Italy, which includes in its courtyard the Tempietto, a small commemorative martyrium (tomb) built by Donato Bramante.

Located at 41.8888, 12.4661 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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1502 establishments, 1500s architecture, Titular churches in Rome, Domes, 15th-century church buildings, Donato Bramante buildings

San Francesco a Ripa

San Francesco a Ripa is a church in Rome, Italy. It is dedicated to Francis of Assisi because the adjacent convent accommodated him, while the term Ripa refers to the nearby river-edge of the Tiber.

Located at 41.8847, 12.4728 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Religious buildings completed in 1701, Titular churches in Rome, Roman Baroque, 13th-century church buildings

Villa Doria Pamphili

The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde, on the Gianicolo (or the Roman Janiculum), just outside the Porta San Pancrazio in the ancient walls of Rome where the ancient road of the Via Aurelia commences.

Located at 41.888, 12.451 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Pamphili family, Gardens in Rome, Landscape design history, Villas in Rome

American University of Rome

The American University of Rome (commonly referred to as AUR) is the oldest degree-granting American university in Rome, Italy. The school was founded in 1969, making it the oldest American degree granting university in Rome. AUR is situated near the center of Rome on the Janiculum hill and has an undergraduate enrollment of around 500. The language of instruction is English.

Located at 41.8857, 12.4623 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Universities in Italy, Universities and colleges in Rome, Education in Rome, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

San Pancrazio

The church of San Pancrazio (English: S. Pancras; Latin: S. Pancratii) is a Roman Catholic ancient basilica and titular church founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th century in Rome, Italy. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum. The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Pancratii is Antonio Cañizares Llovera.

Located at 41.885, 12.4539 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Rome, Titular churches in Rome, 6th-century church buildings

Sant'Egidio, Rome

Sant'Egidio is a convent church in Trastevere, Rome. Sant'Egidio is the patron saint of hermits. The church was founded in 1630 and was abandoned by the nuns in 1971. In 1973, it was occupied by the Community of Sant'Egidio, which had been founded in 1968, and was still looking for a meeting place of its own. The community, which had not had a name before, then chose to name itself after its church.

Located at 41.8902, 12.4688 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Catholic lay societies, Peace organizations, Roman Catholic churches in Rome, Roman Catholic congregations established in the 17th century

Beata Ludovica Albertoni

Beata Ludovica Albertoni (Blessed Ludovica Albertoni) is a funerary monument in the specially designed Altieri Chapel in the church of San Francesco a Ripa in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. The sculpture and its setting in the Chapel were designed by the Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini and completed in 1674.

Located at 41.8847, 12.4728 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Baroque sculpture, 1674 works, 17th-century sculptures, Marble sculptures

Santa Passera

Santa Passera is a church in the south of Rome on the other bank of the curve in the river from the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. The current church, erected in the ninth century, incorporated a Roman tomb. The church served a small community of miners who worked in the tuff quarries of the nearby hills. The interior retains some remnants of medieval frescoes.

Located at 41.8586, 12.4602 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Roman Catholic churches in Rome

Aqua Traiana

The Aqua Traiana (later rebuilt and named the Acqua Paola) was a 1st-century Roman aqueduct built by Emperor Trajan and inaugurated on 24 June 109 AD. It channelled water from sources around Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometers (25 mi) north-west of Rome, to Rome in ancient Roman times but had fallen into disuse by the 17th century. It fed water mills arranged in a parallel sequence at the Janiculum, under the present American Academy in Rome.

Located at 41.8886, 12.4641 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Buildings and structures completed in the 1st century, Buildings and structures completed in 1612, Classical aqueducts in Rome, Fountains in Rome

Aqua Tepula

The Aqua Tepula is an ancient Roman aqueduct built in 126 BC by censors G. Servilius Caepio and L. Cassius Longinus. Its source was at the Alban hills, running only a mere 18 kilometers to Rome. The water from the Aqua Tepula, as implied in the name, was tepid and lukewarm, and thus was, as Frontinus states, not fit for human consumption.

Located at 41.889, 12.4531 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Classical aqueducts in Rome

Rail transport in Vatican City

|} Rail transport in Vatican City consists of two 300-metre sets of rail tracks and two freight sidings within Vatican City (named Vatican Railway, Ferrovia Vaticana), the shortest national railway system in the world, with only one station. Access to Italian rail lines was guaranteed by the Lateran Treaty (1929), and tracks and station were constructed during the reign of Pope Pius XI. The only station is referred to as Vatican City .

Located at 41.8963, 12.4545 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Rail transport in Vatican City, Buildings and structures in Vatican City, Railway lines in Italy, Railway stations in Rome, Transport in Rome, Viaducts

Porta San Pancrazio

The Porta San Pancrazio is a gate in the district Janiculum, Rome, Italy. It was built in 1854 by Virginio Vespignani. It replaces the old one which was erected at the time of Pope Urban VIII and later severely damaged during battles in 1849.

Located at 41.8883, 12.4614 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Renaissance gates in the Aurelian Walls

Beda College

The Pontifical Beda College (Italian: Pontificio Collegio Beda) is a college in Rome. It is united to the English College in Rome and is intended for older men, often convert clergymen wishing to prepare for the Roman Catholic priesthood. This College was founded in 1852 by Pius IX to to accommodate a number of clergymen from England who had joined the Roman Catholic Church from other Christian denominations and wished to prepare for the Catholic priesthood.

Located at 41.8577, 12.4736 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Educational institutions established in 1852, English College, Rome, Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Roman Colleges

Catacomb of Calepodius

The Catacomb of Calepodius (also called the Cemetery of Calepodius) is one of the Catacombs of Rome, notable for containing the tombs of Pope Callixtus I (ironically, the creator of the Catacomb of Callixtus, which once contained the tombs of a dozen other popes) and Pope Julius I, along with the eponymous Calepodius.

Located at 41.8926, 12.4324 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Catacombs of Rome, Papal tombs

Villa Lante al Gianicolo

Villa Lante al Gianicolo is a villa in Rome, Italy, on the Gianicolo Hill. This summer house was designed by Giulio Romano during the early part of the 16th century and came into the ownership of Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Duke of Bomarzo, during the 17th century. The later-impoverished Lante family had to sell the Villa Lante in Rome by the early 19th century.

Located at 41.8931, 12.4607 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Villas in Rome, 16th-century architecture

Fontana dell'Acqua Paola

The Fontana dell'Acqua Paola also known as Il Fontanone ("The big fountain") is a monumental fountain located on the Janiculum Hill, near the church of San Pietro in Montorio, in Rome, Italy. It was built in 1610-12 to mark the end of the Acqua Paola acqueduct, restored by Pope Paul V, and took its name from him. It was the first major fountain on the left bank of the River Tiber.

Located at 41.8887, 12.4642 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Fountains in Rome, 1610s architecture

Pons Probi

The Pons Probi (Bridge of Probus) was a bridge over the River Tiber in Ancient Rome, just south of Porta Trigemina. The Pons Probi connected the Aventine Hill to the Trastevere. The Roman bridge was probably built during the reign of the Emperor Probus (276–282 AD). Possibly it was built because of the grain reforms of Aurelian, Probus's predecessor, which necessitated a number of aqueduct-powered water mills in this area, and a bridge to transport the grain from these across the Tiber.

Located at 41.88, 12.4708 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Bridges in Rome, Roman bridges in Italy, 3rd-century bridges, Demolished bridges

Roma Trastevere railway station

Roma Trastevere railway station (Italian: Stazione di Roma Trastevere) is a major railway station serving the city and comune of Rome, Italy. Opened in 1911, it forms part of the Pisa–Livorno–Rome, Rome–Capranica–Viterbo and Rome–Fiumicino railways. The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). However, the commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni. Train services are operated by Trenitalia.

Located at 41.8728, 12.4661 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Railway stations in Rome, Railway stations opened in 1911

Roma San Pietro railway station

Roma San Pietro railway station (Italian: Stazione di Roma San Pietro) is a major station serving the city and comune of Rome, Italy. Opened in 1894, the station forms part of the Pisa–Livorno–Rome railway and the Rome–Capranica–Viterbo railway. It is also the junction for the short, single track Rome–Vatican City railway, which crosses into Vatican City after passing over a viaduct. The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). Train services are operated by Trenitalia.

Located at 41.8964, 12.4544 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Railway stations in Rome, Railway stations opened in 1894, 1894 establishments in Italy

Statues and monuments of patriots on the Janiculum

There are many busts of Italian patriots of the Risorgimento, and foreigners who fought with weapons or words for the unification of Italy, on the Janiculum in Rome.

Located at 41.8882, 12.4653 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Visitor attractions in Rome, Buildings and structures in Rome

Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori, Rome

Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori is a Baroque church in Rome built attached to a convent in the rione of Trastevere, located on Via Garibaldi, near the intersection with Via dei Panieri. Construction of the church was begun in 1643 with plans by Francesco Borromini, annexed to a Augustinian nunnery that was founded by Camilla-Virginia Savelli Farnese, Duchess of Latera. However, when the fortunes of the House of Farnese declined, so did the funding for the church, and by 1655 the work was stopped.

Located at 41.8899, 12.4663 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Roman Catholic churches in Rome, Roman Baroque, Religious buildings completed in 1655

Monument to Garibaldi (Rome)

The Equestrian monument dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi is an imposing equestrian statue placed in Rome on the highest point of the Janiculum hill. It was released by Emilio Gallori in 1895, and has been referred by the title "the Hero of the Two Worlds".

Located at 41.8915, 12.4608 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Rome, 1895 sculptures, Equestrian statues