Rome

The history of a new street brings papal ideas of morality into contact with rent, credit, and the safety of expelled women.

Here the route begins with a square where, three centuries later, a public sentence received a bronze reply.

Here you will see how an ancient mausoleum became a papal refuge and a place of surrender.

Inside, it will become clear how a painter replaced an unbuilt structure with a convincing architectural illusion.

The finale will compare two ways of presenting new power to the city: a public arena and a monument to the victor.

The Senate chamber is needed on this route to show, after the assault in the street, power acquired through a lawful procedure.

The emperor's private quarters will show how access to a single room could decide the fate of a reign.

This stop is needed to examine the investigation after which a venerated relic turned out to belong to someone else.

The mutilated marble will help explain how Roman mockery became a political tool.

The enclosed corridor explains how the pope could negotiate with a king who had entered Rome without leaving the route to the fortress.

Here, the city hall becomes the setting for testing how long popular support can keep a ruler in a palace.

The surviving side of the temple links an imperial dispute over succession with a later customs house and the modern chamber.

The finale will show how a major architectural success came with defects, a lawsuit, and a career that never took off.

The square will show how a fountain model could restore an architect's papal commissions and deprive a rival of the central work.

The route begins with the most recent and best-preserved stage for mass politics.

This stop will show how a disaster changed the approach to the main pilgrimage crossing of the Tiber.

The high altar will form a vertical chain from the present church to the early shrine and the Roman Necropolis.

This stop will connect the openness of a papal audience with the assassination attempt, the rescue, and the subsequent forgiveness of the shooter.

The panorama will help you trace the soldiers' route from the city square to the fortified summit.

The fountain will help you see how a papal plan took over someone else’s palace and left its own coat of arms on it.

The finale will show how a sculpture found in a vineyard became the core of a collection that the popes later opened to the public.

Here, you will need to compare the ceremonial view of the basilica with the vanished houses, shops, and square of old Borgo.

Here, the triumphal procession will appear as a ceremony that could not be completed without news from the Forum.