Step-by-step Guide: Visit Ancient Rome for Free (easy Itinerary)!

Hi, I'm Alyssa from Rome. Your

guide

to Rome in today's video. I want to show you how you can

visit

ancient

Rome for

free

, of course, as you walk through the historic center of Rome you will see many monuments and sites of

ancient

Rome, such as the pantheon Piazza navona and laguar Argentina, but most people when When

visit

ing Rome they want to include a visit to the Colosseum which also includes a visit to the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill and this is a visit that will take approximately half a day of your time and although we consider it to be a must see when visiting Rome, it is a visit that can be a little stressful, first you have to deal with purchasing tickets and deciding whether you are going to go on your own or take a tour and then obviously there are the crowds and the lines, so whether you are looking to avoid those crowds and queues or you're looking for a way to watch these sites for

free

, that's what today's video is about if you're new to my channel. roamwise is your

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to Rome where I bring you the best of Rome and sometimes beyond, with lots of great things to see and do, places to eat and drink and lots of secret spots along the way, so consider subscribing and press. that like button while you're at it, okay, let's get started with this video, so the hike I'm going to show you today is my little secret

itinerary

where you'll see the best sites in ancient Rome, all for free, almost any time of year. at any time of the day or night and purposely filming this video for you in the middle of the day in the middle of high season because I want to show you what kind of crowds you can expect when you do this hike, so I'm standing here in Piazza Venezia and here It is where we will begin our walk.

The large monument behind me is not part of our hike. I just wanted to use it as a starting point. Yes, the monument is worth visiting, but not on today's hike. We will go around it to the right side and begin our visit here on the Capitoline Hill. Rome has seven hills from ancient Rome that are still here today and one of the most important is the capital hill. where the Romans built their temple to Jupiter Optimus Maximus that temple is no longer here although you can see parts of it if you visit the Capitoline museums but I am going to show you the views that you can see from the back of this hill over the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill today this square has a very different appearance, it was designed by Michelangelo in the 16th century and when it was designed by him, the Pope turned the face of the square towards the Vatican and Rome, so this The square originally faced to ancient Rome and today it has views of the most modern Rome.

The statue in the middle is an equestrian bronze of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The original is inside the capillary museums. There are always few people here, not always, but it is an amazing place. come see the Roman Forum, the Colosseum behind me and the Palatine Hill. If there are a lot of people here, you can wait a moment and you will have a chance to take a photo like this. This is a wonderful place to visit early. in the morning or at sunset, really any time of the day, so this is really the best free view of the Palatine Hill from the Roman Forum, but there is much more to see on this hike, so let's continue abroad, this It is the symbol of Rome because the founding Legend of Rome. is that it was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus who were abandoned but then found by a she-wolf and raised by her and then they founded Rome, so that's another story, but you can see this bronze Wolf here next to the mayor's office . the original is inside the cavali museums in the Temple of Saturn.

You can see Cenatus Romanos written. This is from ancient Rome and you will see this all over Rome today. Here we can actually see the ancient Roman tabularium that has been incorporated. Today's Kapolei museums come from this side and take a better look at this Arch. It's pretty incredible. We only have three of these trampled arches left from ancient Rome and this is truly intact. From here you have another view of the Roman Forum. I can get a closer look at the temple of Caster and Pollux with the Palatine Terrace right above it, even in high season.

I think this place is almost never crowded, so you get a great crowd-free view of the Roman Forum and now we continue our walk passing by Mammerteen Prison. Now we are going to walk through the Cleveland Argentario. The clivo is a slope from ancient Rome and you can see that this is the original path. We have completed the circle around the big white wedding cake and Now we will head to the Via de for imperiali and take a walk along that road, so this is the Via del dia 40 imperiali, which means the street of the imperial forums, which is plural for forums and it refers to the four forums here from different eras. of ancient Rome different emperors of ancient Rome except one the first forum we are looking at here is the oldest of the four forums and this one is named after not an emperor Julius Caesar, in fact he was a dictator the three imperial forums that in They are actually imperial which means they are from emperors on the other side of the road.

I'm going to head over there and start with Trajan's Forum. Trajan's Forum was the last of the forums to be built here and was the largest, the column you see is dedicated to a triumph under the emperor Trajan tells of the triumph over Dasha, which today is Romania and you can see the remains of the urpia basilica, which was a huge basilica under emperor trajan. In fact, you can visit this site and there is also a small walkway here that allows us to better see Trajan's column, Trajan's basilica and in front of us we have Trajan's market, which is an amazing site to visit from ancient Rome , it is never crowded, it was the first shopping center, this is a great street to walk whenever it is open.

On Sundays all the time, however, it is closed to traffic, so the center fills up with people walking and riding bikes, scooters, etc. This bronze sculpture depicts Rome's first emperor, Octavius ​​Augustus, and you can see the original inside the Vatican Museums here along the way. pon imperiali is standing in front of his Forum let's take a look the last forum is the Forum of Nerva now we are heading towards the Colosseum we are approaching the end of the Viet and you would think that the Colosseum is the end of this walk, but in reality I have a couple of secret places to show you where you can see some really amazing parts of ancient Rome still for free, thanks, so in case you were wondering, this is an exit, but you can't enter.

Roman Forum from here, but we are entering the back of this section where we can come and see a little bit of the Basilica of Maxentias. There you can see those enormous barrel vaults and coffered ceilings. Also here is one of the hidden gems that you can visit. Church of Santa Francesca Romano Santa Maria antiqua is inside the Roman Forum, this is Santa Maria Nova because it is the relatively new church, but you can visit it, it is inside the Roman Forum, but the entrance is outside the Roman Forum, so we can enter. a scarf in my bag to cover my shoulders, it's not a big secret, but there are never that many people here, most people come back here because they think this is a way to get into the forum, which is not strange here.

We are in the Colosseum, you can certainly visit this Monument up close. You can walk around it everywhere. You can get very close without even entering. I've covered this in other videos, so let's just go. To continue to finish this

itinerary

of ancient Rome free foreigner we are going to turn right and we are going to go up this road called asakra towards the last of the three triumphal arches that remained from ancient Rome the Arch of Titus here is the entrance to the roman forum let's just pass this and move on thanks by the way, I've been here very early in the morning and I've never seen this gate closed although I assume it will close at some point so they probably can't do this part of the hike 24 hours a day hours of the day.

This particular view is really beautiful at sunrise and sunset, guys, on a really hot day like today. This is a great place to walk because there is shade here on Palatine Hill. Park of the three parts of ancient Rome, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palestine Hill. The Palatine Hill is the only part that has shade, we are among the parts that you can visit and this is the street that takes us to a church that is free. The street is free to walk while we continue here we can go to the church. You can see the Stations of the Cross along the way.

I hope you enjoyed this visit to ancient Rome without the crowds and for free. in less than an hour non-stop, of course, if you try it or have questions, leave me some comments below. Also below you will find links to the sites that we mentioned and that I mentioned that you can visit if you decide that you want to go inside, including the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, you will find all of those links below. Thank you very much for watching, hit the like button and see you in the next video, ciao for now.