Monuments & statues in Italy
Detourmap maps 187 monuments & statues worth the detour in Italy — memorials, colossal statues, triumphal arches. The best known is Trevi Fountain. The 150 most notable are listed here; the rest are on the map. Each has a photo and a Wikipedia article.
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Castel Sant'Angelo
Monuments & statues · 2nd century · Renowned
Castle and museum in Rome, formerly the imperial mausoleum of the emperor Hadrian and subsequent Roman emperors
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Mausoleum of Augustus
Monuments & statues · 1st century BC · Renowned
Building in Campo Marzio, Italy
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Column of Marcus Aurelius
Monuments & statues · 2nd century · Notable
Roman victory column (completed 193)
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Column of Phocas
Monuments & statues · 7th century · Notable
Roman monumental column in the Roman Forum of Rome, Italy
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Four Rivers Fountain
Monuments & statues · 17th century · Notable
Fountain in Rome designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
Monuments & statues · 2nd century · Notable
Sculpture formerly at Piazza del Campidoglio
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Farnese Hercules
Monuments & statues · 4th century BC · Notable
Ancient statue of Hercules in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples
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Lateran Obelisk
Monuments & statues · 14th century BC · Notable
Obelisk from Karnak in Egypt, now in Rome, Italy
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Column of Antoninus Pius
Monuments & statues · 2nd century · Notable
Honorific column devoted to Roman emperor Antoninus Pius
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Colossus of Constantine
Monuments & statues · 4th century · Notable
4th-century acrolithic statue, 12 m. tall
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Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni
Monuments & statues · 15th century · Notable
Sculpture by Andrea del Verrocchio in Venice, Italy
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Perseus with the Head of Medus
Monuments & statues · 16th century · Notable
Sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini
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Fontana delle Api
Monuments & statues · 17th century · Notable
Fountain in Rome designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini
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Quattro Fontane
Monuments & statues · Notable
Baroque fountain complex consisting of four fountains in Rome, Italy
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Tomb of Antipope John XXIII
Monuments & statues · 15th century · Notable
Tomb monument of Baldassare Cossa created by Donatello and Michelozzo in the Baptistery, Florence, Italy
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Piraeus Lion
Monuments & statues · 4th century BC · Notable
Ancient sculpted lion now in Venice arsenal
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Fontana dell'Acqua Paola
Monuments & statues · 17th century · Notable
Public fountain on the Janiculum hill in Rome, Italy
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Palazzo Terragni
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
Rationalist building located in Como, nowadays seat of the Guardia di Finanza provincial command
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Elephant and Obelisk
Monuments & statues · 17th century · Notable
Sculpture designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini
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Tomb of the Diver
Monuments & statues · 5th century BC · Hidden gem
Great Greece funerary artifact located in Paestum, Italy
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Tomb of Pope Julius II
Monuments & statues · 16th century · Hidden gem
Sculptural and architectural ensemble by Michelangelo
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Fountain of Neptune
Monuments & statues · 16th century · Hidden gem
Fountain on northern Piazza Navona, Rome
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Statue of Giordano Bruno
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monument in the city of Rome
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Fountain (Babuino)
Monuments & statues · 16th century · Hidden gem
One of the six talking statues of Rome
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Arcus Novus
Monuments & statues · 3rd century · Hidden gem
An ancient arch in Rome, located on the Via lata (now the Via del Corso ), at the site of the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata.
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Colonne di San Lorenzo
Monuments & statues · 1st century · Hidden gem
Roman ruins of sacred architecture in Milan
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Column of the Immaculate Conception
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Rome depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Tomb of the Triclinium
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Etruscan tomb in the Necropolis of Monterozzi near Tarquinia, Italy
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Elephant Fountain
Monuments & statues · 18th century · Hidden gem
Symbolic monument of the city of Catania
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Madonnina
Monuments & statues · 18th century · Hidden gem
Statue of the Virgin Mary atop Milan Cathedral in Italy
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Porcellino
Monuments & statues · 17th century · Hidden gem
Bronze fountain of a boar in Florence, Italy
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Tempio Voltiano
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Museum devoted to Alessandro Volta's studies in Como
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Monument to Dante
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Statue outside Santa Croce, Florence
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Truth unveiled by Time
Monuments & statues · 17th century · Hidden gem
Sculpture in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Fonte Gaia
Monuments & statues · 15th century · Hidden gem
Monumental marble fountain in Siena, Italy
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Fountain of the Pantheon
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Fountain with obelisk at the Piazza della Rotonda in Rome
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Fontana del Carciofo (Napoli)
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
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Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument welcoming the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty to Italy
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Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Rome
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Rome, Italy
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Naples underground geothermal zone
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Underground museum in Chiaia, Municipality 1 of Naples, Italy
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Boboli obelisk
Monuments & statues · 13th century BC · Hidden gem
Ancient Egyptian obelisk in Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy
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Graecostasis
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Platform in the Comitium near the Roman Forum, located to the west of the Rostra. The name refers to the Greek ambassadors for whom the platform was originally…
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monument to Victor Emmanuel II
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monument by Ercole Rosa in Milan, Italy
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Arch of Titus
Monuments & statues · 1st century · Hidden gem
Triple bay arch erected at the eastern end of the Circus Maximus by the Senate in A.D. 81, in honour of Titus and his capture of Jerusalem in the First Jewish–…
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Fanzago's astronomical clock
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Civic tower with astronomical clock in Clusone, Bergamo, Italy
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Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany
Monuments & statues · 17th century · Hidden gem
Tomb by Gianlorenzo Bernini
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Holocaust memorial in Milan, Italy
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Holocaust memorial in Milan, Italy
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Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monument by Emilio Gallori in Rome, Italy
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Artemis of Ephesus (Naples)
Monuments & statues · 2nd century · Hidden gem
Roman sculpture in the Naples National Archaeological Museum
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Life Electric
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Iron sculpture designed by Daniel Libeskind on Lake Como, Italy
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Decennalia Base
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Base of a former column in Rome, Italy, celebrating the 10th year of rule (decennium) of the Tetrarchy's caesars Galerius and Constantius Chlorus
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Monumento a Giovanni Paolo II, Roma
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Rome, Italy
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Futapass German military cemetery
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Building in Firenzuola, Italy
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Tomb of Hunting and Fishing
Monuments & statues · 6th century BC · Hidden gem
Etruscan late archaic tomb in Tarquinia
