The Best Places To Visit Rome Off The Beaten Path

Are you on a journey to Rome and tired of visiting the same things over and over again? Do you only hear about the Vatican Museums and Colosseum? Well, then you have opened the right page!
Below you will find some places to visit that are off the beaten path.
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There you will find a list of 4 hidden gems in Rome!

Capuchin Crypt

Photo Credits: Dnalor 01, Rom, Santa Maria Immacolata a Via Veneto, Krypta der Kapuziner 1, CC BY-SA 3.0

This is truly one of the most unique, unforgettable sites in Rome – and as one of the least-toured crypts (technically, it’s an ossuary) in the city, it is the very definition of exploring Rome off the beaten path. However, fair warning– it’s not for everyone. In the 17th century, the Capuchin Crypt was slowly built with the skeletons of the friars that died at this monastery.Skeletons are arranged as works of art in several small chapels here, including everything from altars made of human bones, to chandeliers made with human bones, to full skeletons in the robes of a monk resting on a bed of bones.

Arco degli Acetari

Let’s step back in time to the Middle Ages. The small courtyard of Arco degli Acetari is a place where time seems to have stopped several centuries ago. Strolling along Via del Pellegrino, not far from Campo de’ Fiori, when you get to number 19, you will find an entrance that will lead you to a small inner courtyard. A hidden Rome that will amaze you: the old houses with their red ochre coloured plaster, worn by time. The steps in front of the gates and the bicycles leaning against the walls. A very central but well hidden place, where it is difficult to happen by chance.

The Borromini perspective

Photo Credits: Sailko, Palazzo spada, prospettiva di borromini, 09, CC BY 3.0

Speaking of optical illusions and secret places in Rome, I cannot fail to point out the famous but well-hidden Borromini perspective.
This is one of the most famous examples of optical illusionism of the Baroque period, in which Francesco Borromini designed a gallery that looks like a long colonnade, but is actually only 8 metres long! To see it, you must enter the Galleria Spada museum and enter the secret garden. The museum is open every day except Tuesdays.

Casina delle civette

Photo Credits: Howardhudson at English Wikipedia, La Casina delle Civette, CC BY-SA 3.0

Inside Villa Torlonia on the Nomentana is a building that looks like something out of a children’s storybook. It is the Casina delle Civette, home of Prince Giovanni Torlonia Jr. It was designed in 1840 but had various additions and modifications until the first decade of the 1900s. It is a fanciful-looking structure full of turrets, porticoes, towers, and polychrome stained-glass windows.

In a nutshell, this is just a small taste of the secret and hidden Rome. You should come to the city and discover the rest for yourself.