But perhaps most alluring is its proximity to Campo Marzio (its name, Italian for “Field of Mars”, refers to its use during ...

ROME — For centuries, historians and architecture critics have been embarrassed by buildings like San Giorgio in Velabro. The exterior of the medieval church is inoffensive enough: trim portico, ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ almsgiver has gone down a Rome manhole to restore electricity for hundreds of homeless people living in an unused state-owned building. Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski told ...

Rome (CNN) — Rome, as it’s often said, wasn’t built in a day. And nowhere is that more evident than its state-of-the-art Metro Line C, an ambitious project meant to help relieve the Italian capital’s ...

The Colosseum, inaugurated in A.D. 80, seated 50,000 and hosted gladiatorial games, ritual animal hunts, parades and executions. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images The Romans started making concrete ...

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland turned morbid when historians came across a trove of infant burials dating back to Ancient Rome. The excavation began last May in order to make way ...