The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (its Italian name), known in English also as St Mary Major, is an ancient Catholic basilica of Rome.

The Capitoline Museums are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the famous Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of over 400 years.

A gathering place for German artists and intellectuals, the Via del Corso apartment where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived between 1786 and 1788 is now a lovingly maintained museum.

The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as the Castel Sant'Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Rome, initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The building was later used as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum.

The Church of the Gesù ( or "Church of the Holy Name of Jesus") is the mother church of the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, an order of the Roman Catholic Church. Its facade recognized as "the first truly baroque facade" it was the model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in the Americas. The Church of the Gesù is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome.