Piazza Venezia, the Capitoline Hill and Museums

This tour is meant to ideally connect the origins of Rome as a village of shepherds and farmers, with the capital of a modern country and the expression of our cultural identity. Our journey starts with Piazza Venezia, the geographic center of the city. A chance to see the balcony where Mussolini declared war to Poland in 1939, the house where Michelangelo lived and died and the building rising solemnly and majestically to remember Victor Emmanuel II, the king of a just unified Italy in 1861. Second stop will be the Capitoline Hill and its square designed by Michelangelo, hosting the biggest and most important temple of Rome, the one of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, still preserved in its foundations. In the late Republic, part of the hill became the seat of the ancient state archive of the city and nowadays the mayor's office! The Musei Capitolini, first museum of the world opened in 1471, will be the cherry on the cake with the statues of the She wolf with Romulus and Remus and the one of Marcus Aurelius!