Secluded Vacation

Museo Nazionale Romano – Crypta Balbi (Roman National Museum – Crypta Balbi). This is perhaps the most recent museum in Rome (it was opened in the year 2000), but undoubtedly one of the most interesting. It provides a birds eye-view panorama of living conditions in ancient Rome, up to the Middle Ages. Exhibits include many household items found during excavations as well as a number of coins, marble inscriptions and various documents of particular historical significance.

Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums). Suppose you are in Rome and you wish to visit a museum exhibiting some of the art treasures that you have always wanted to see, where would it be best for you to go? The answer is extremely simple. Take your pick. Rome has been called an open-air museum, with so many ancient buildings, monuments and archaeological remains to be admired everywhere around the city that you have an embarrassingly wide choice. However, if you are near the Capitoline Hill, we suggest you pay a visit to the Capitoline Museums. They are a complex of buildings hosting a fantastic collection of Egyptian, Greek and, above all, Roman sculptures, Roman artefacts, such as jewels and medals, as well as other works of art, including a bronze equestrian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, which was restored in recent years.  Read more...