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Free things to do in Rome

10 museums and landmarks in Rome are recorded as free entry by OpenStreetMap contributors, and 35 parks, viewpoints and beaches cost nothing by their nature. 15 of them give opening hours.

Contributors marked these as charging no admission. Museums and landmarks only: a zero here is a fact about the place, not an assumption about its kind.

Free by their nature rather than by a tag, so nobody checked these one by one — but a park being free needs no evidence.

Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap and can be out of date. A place is only marked open on Sunday when its record says so plainly.

Free museums — 10 places

  • Museo di scultura antica Giovanni Barracco
    Oct-May: Tu-Su 10:00-16:00; Dec 24,31 09:00-14:00; Jun-Sep: Tu-Su 13:00-19:00, Mo off; Mo off; Jan 01 off; May 01 off; Dec 25 off
  • Polo museale ATAC Porta San Paolo
    Via Bartolomeo Bossi 7
    Mo,We 10:00-14:00, Fr 14:00-17:00
  • Museo Storico della Liberazione
    Via Tasso 145
  • Museo delle Mura
    Mo off; Tu-Su 09:00-14:00; Jan 01 off; May 01 off; Dec 24 09:00-14:00; Dec 25 off; Dec 31 09:00-14:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Museo napoleonico di Roma
    Piazza di Ponte Umberto I 1
    Tu-Su 10:00-18:00; Dec 24,31 10:00-14:00; Mo off; Jan 01 off; May 01 off; Dec 25 off
    Open on Sunday
  • Museo della Repubblica Romana e della memoria garibaldina
    Largo di Porta San Pancrazio
    Tu-Fr 10:00-14:00; Sa,Su,PH 10:00-18:00; Mo off; Jan 1 off; May 1 off; Dec 25 off
    Open on Sunday
  • Museo Pietro Canonica
    Viale Pietro Canonica 2
    Oct-May: Tu-Su 10:00-16:00; Dec 24,31 10:00-14:00; Jun-Sep: Tu-Su 13:00-19:00; Jan 01,May 01,Dec 25 off
    Open on Sunday
  • Museo di Storia della Medicina
    Viale dell'Università 34a
    Mo-Fr 09:30-17:30
  • Museo Internazionale del Presepio
    We 17:00-19:30, Sa 17:00-19:30; Jul-Aug off
  • Real Academia de España
    Piazza di San Pietro in Montorio 3

Parks and gardens — 20 places

  • Villa Borghese Park
  • Villa Doria Pamphilj
    Oct-Feb 07:00-18:00; Apr-Aug 07:00-21:00; Mar 07:00-20:00; Sep 07:00-20:00
  • Pincio
  • Villa Ada
    Mo-Su 06:30-sunset
  • Parco del Colle Oppio
  • Parco degli Acquedotti
  • Botanical Garden
    Largo Cristina di Svezia 24
    Mo-Su 09:00-18:30
  • Villa Torlonia
  • Parco Naturale Regionale Appia Antica
  • Parco Virgiliano
    Via Nemorense 41
    Mo-Su 08:00-20:00
  • Hadrian's Mausoleum Park
    Mo-Su 07:00-21:00
  • Rome Rose Garden
    Via di Valle Murcia 6
    2023 Apr 21-Jun 11: Mo-Su, PH 08:30-19:30
  • Villa Celimontana
  • Riserva Naturale di Monte Mario
  • Riserva Naturale Valle dei Casali
  • Giardino degli Aranci
  • Villa Lazzaroni
    Via Appia Nuova 520
    07:00-19:00
  • Villa Aldobrandini
  • Villa Sciarra
    Via Dandolo
  • Parco della Caffarella

Viewpoints — 15 places

  • Aventine Hill
  • Caelian Hill
  • Vatican Hill
  • Monte Mario
  • Forum Romanum view
  • Belvedere Romolo E Remo
  • Balconata del Pincio
  • Terrazza del Gianicolo
  • Punto panoramico di viale della Galea
  • Monte Ciocci
  • Terrazza Viale del Belvedere
  • Belvedere Niccolò Scatoli
  • Torre del Tabularium
  • Illusione ottica del Cupolone
  • Isola Tiberina

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