Must-SeeVatican Museums and St. Peter's
About 2.5 miles away
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. Book the museums ahead.
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Aventine Hill
A quiet, leafy hill with the Orange Garden's view to St Peter's and a famous keyhole that frames the dome.
- Open
- Always; the garden by day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 00153 RomeDirections
- Getting There
- Circo Massimo station (Metro line B), then a 15-minute walk uphill.
Why Go
The Orange Garden has a terrace looking across the Tiber to St Peter's. Down the road, people queue to peer through the keyhole in the gate of the Knights of Malta, which frames the dome perfectly.
The early basilica of Santa Sabina nearby keeps a carved wooden door from the 5th century.
Nearby in Rome
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