Rome is Italy’s destination par excellence, the city of all superlatives. It has about 900 churches and basilicas and its twenty-eight centuries of history have left their mark on humanity. Today, the historical, archaeological and cultural richness of Rome is no longer in question, as its millions of annual visitors testify.
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Un voyage merveilleux sur les flots d’une mer d’émeraude entre les grandes et les petites criques de sable blanc. C’est la Sardaigne, une île située au cœur de la Méditerranée, qui surprend le visiteur par ses contrastes naturels, ses lumières et les couleurs d’un pays aux traditions anciennes, dans une nature déserte et préservée.
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10 April 2016
St Peter’s Basilica, Catholicism’s largest religious monument
St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, which we’ve been admiring for almost five hundred years, is the successor to a first religious monument, erected in 319 at the request of Emperor Constantine, on the site where St. Peter was to be buried. It was consecrated in 326 by Pope Sylvester I.
23 April 2016
The origins of the Vatican Museums can be traced back to Julius II, who in 1503 had ancient works deposited in the courtyard of the Belvedere Palace. Popes Clement XIV and Pius VI contributed to their development and glory. The 1,400 rooms of the museum have been constantly enriched to this day.
14 June 2016
St. John Lateran has witnessed many historic events in its long history: Charlemagne was baptized here in 774, several great councils were held here, all the popes were enthroned here until the 19th century, and Mussolini signed the so-called Lateran Accords here in 1929.