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The Passetto di Borgo corridor linking Castel Sant'Angelo to the Vatican

Castel Sant'Angelo - Museo NazionaleBorgo

Passetto di Borgo

Now showingPermanent collectionTicketed — see website

The fortified elevated corridor built into the Leonine walls that let popes flee the Vatican to the castle's safety, famously used by Clement VII during the 1527 Sack of Rome.

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Poster for FOOD. Il gusto nell'arte at the Chiostro del Bramante, over a Baroque still life of cherries

FOOD. Il gusto nell'arte

Chiostro del Bramante

L'Ara si rivela videomapping experience banner, Museo dell'Ara Pacis

L'Ara si rivela

Museo dell'Ara Pacis

Keith Haring, X-Man, 1984

Keith Haring

Museo di Roma (Palazzo Braschi)

All exhibitions in Rome this month Coming up in November

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The two-storey Renaissance courtyard of the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome

Chiostro del Bramante

Art7 min walk
The white glass-and-travertine Ara Pacis museum building designed by Richard Meier, with fountain, beside the Tiber in Rome

Museo dell'Ara Pacis

Art10 min walk
Facade of Palazzo Braschi, home of the Museo di Roma

Museo di Roma (Palazzo Braschi)

Local History10 min walk
Magazzino d'Arte Moderna

Magazzino d'Arte Moderna

ArtFree10 min walk

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