41 venues · 76 upcoming events
Things to do in Centro Storico: free events and every venue
Every place we list events for, grouped by neighbourhood. Each venue page shows what’s coming up (recurring shows on their next date), what we’ve listed there before, the address, the Metro, trams and buses and what’s nearby — checked by a person, not a crawler.
Free in Centro Storico this week
3 free events in the next seven days, soonest first. Free means the venue prints it as free; a few still ask you to register.
- Casa di Goethe
FreeTHU, OCT 29Free Day at the Casa di Goethe: 240 Years Since Goethe Reached RomeCasa di GoetheFreeDetails → - Palazzo Sciarra Colonna (Museo del Corso)
FreeTHRU SUN, JAN 10From Franciscan Preaching to the Monti di PietàPalazzo Sciarra Colonna (Museo del Corso)FreeDetails → - Palazzo Sciarra Colonna (Museo del Corso)
THRU SUN, JAN 10In the Footsteps of Francis: Art, Restoration and the ContemporaryPalazzo Sciarra Colonna (Museo del Corso)Free · guided tours €7Details →
Centro Storico
- Accademia di San LucaAccademia Nazionale di San Luca0 pastTreviRome's centuries-old academy of artists in Palazzo Carpegna near the Trevi Fountain, with a gallery of works donated by its members and temporary exhibitions.See what's on →
- Ara Pacis
Ara Pacis Museum3 upcomingPiazza del Popolo / Augusto ImperatoreRichard Meier's glass pavilion by the Tiber enclosing Augustus's Altar of Peace, with a separate exhibition space entered from Via di Ripetta 180.See what's on → - Art Gallery Roma
Art Gallery Roma1 upcomingPiazza NavonaPainter Elena Sagresti's gallery on Via dei Coronari near Piazza Navona, which doubles as a studio for short painting lessons for visitors.See what's on → - San Nicola in Carcere
Basilica di San Nicola in Carcere1 upcomingTeatro di Marcello / GhettoA small basilica built into the columns of ancient Roman temples beside the Theatre of Marcellus, used for evening chamber concerts.See what's on → - Campo de' FioriCampo de' Fiori2 upcomingCampo de' FioriOne of the historic centre's liveliest squares, home to a morning street market selling fruit, vegetables, flowers, dried goods and spices.See what's on →
- Musei Capitolini
Capitoline Museums4 upcomingCapitoline HillThe city's flagship civic museum on Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, with the Capitoline Wolf, the bronze Marcus Aurelius and views over the Forum; exhibitions also use Villa Caffarelli.See what's on → - Capuchin Crypt
Capuchin Crypt (Museo e Cripta dei Cappuccini)2 upcomingBarberini / Via VenetoThe Capuchin friars' museum and bone-decorated crypt beneath Santa Maria della Concezione at the foot of Via Veneto.See what's on → - Casa di Goethe
Casa di Goethe2 upcomingPiazza del PopoloThe apartment near Piazza del Popolo where Goethe lodged during his Italian journey, now a German-run museum with a permanent display and small exhibitions.See what's on → - Chiostro del BramanteChiostro del Bramante1 upcomingPiazza NavonaBramante's Renaissance cloister behind Piazza Navona, used for themed contemporary exhibitions, with a café overlooking Raphael's Sibyls in Santa Maria della Pace.See what's on →
- Sant'IgnazioChurch of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola1 upcomingCampo MarzioThe Jesuit Baroque church near the Pantheon known for Andrea Pozzo's illusionistic ceiling and painted false dome.See what's on →
- Eat and Walk Italy
Eat and Walk Italy1 upcomingPiazza NavonaA Rome food-experience company whose pasta and pizza classes are held in a restaurant kitchen just north of Piazza Navona.See what's on → - Fabio Bordi
Fabio Bordi Mosaici1 upcomingVia dei Coronari / PonteThe workshop of mosaic maker Fabio Bordi, on a lane between Piazza Navona and Castel Sant'Angelo, where he makes marble mosaics and teaches individuals and small groups.See what's on → - Colonna
Galleria Colonna2 upcomingTreviThe Colonna family's private palace and Baroque picture gallery, still lived in and opened to the public only on Friday and Saturday mornings.See what's on → - GAM
Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale1 upcomingSpanish StepsThe city's own modern art gallery, in a former Carmelite convent near the Spanish Steps, with Roman art from the late 19th century to the post-war years.See what's on → - Gourmetaly
Gourmetaly1 upcomingPantheonRome food-experience company running cooking classes and sommelier-led wine and food pairings in the historic centre.See what's on → - Gregory'sGregory's Jazz Club2 upcomingSpanish StepsAn intimate jazz club and restaurant just above the Spanish Steps, with live jazz every evening in two sets.See what's on →
- InRome CookingInRome Cooking7 upcomingPiazza NavonaA cooking school with kitchens around Piazza Navona (flagship at Corso del Rinascimento 65) running shared pasta, pizza and market classes with English-speaking chefs.See what's on →
- Inky Larks
Inky Larks5 upcomingJewish GhettoArt studio founded in 2021 by Rome artist Diletta, where small groups bind their own sketchbook before a drawing walk through the Ghetto.See what's on → - Italian Cooking Classes in Rome
Italian Cooking Classes in Rome3 upcomingPiazza Venezia / GhettoA ground-floor cooking school on a quiet square behind Piazza Venezia that runs shared classes in English, from gelato to pasta and pizza.See what's on → - Magic Clay Pottery
Laboratorio di Ceramica Magica5 upcomingPiazza NavonaSmall ceramics studio a short walk from Piazza Navona, run by Gioia and Denise, with wheel and hand-building sessions.See what's on → - Michelangelo For a Day
Michelangelo For a Day1 upcomingPiazza Navona / Via dei CoronariArt studio near Via dei Coronari offering private two-hour fresco, mosaic, pottery, watercolour and Caravaggio-style painting workshops, open daily 9am–6pm.See what's on → - Museo Napoleonico
Museo Napoleonico1 upcomingPiazza Navona / LungotevereA city museum by the Tiber devoted to the Bonaparte family's ties with Rome, with paintings, furniture and mementoes donated by Count Giuseppe Primoli.See what's on → - Palazzo Braschi
Museo di Roma – Palazzo Braschi1 upcomingPiazza NavonaThe civic museum of the city's history in a papal-family palace on the south side of Piazza Navona, also used for major temporary exhibitions.See what's on → - Museo Barracco
Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco1 upcomingCampo de' FioriA jewel-box collection of Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman sculpture assembled by Baron Giovanni Barracco, in a small Renaissance palazzo off Campo de' Fiori.See what's on → - Oratorio del Gonfalone
Oratorio del Gonfalone5 upcomingVia GiuliaA 16th-century confraternity oratory near Via Giulia whose walls are covered in Mannerist frescoes of the Passion; it hosts an intimate weekly chamber-music season.See what's on → - Palazzo Altemps
Palazzo Altemps1 upcomingPiazza NavonaRenaissance palace just north of Piazza Navona where the Museo Nazionale Romano shows its collections of ancient sculpture, including the Ludovisi pieces.See what's on → - Palazzo Bonaparte
Palazzo Bonaparte1 upcomingPiazza VeneziaThe palazzo on Piazza Venezia where Napoleon's mother lived, now used by Arthemisia for large modern-art exhibitions.See what's on → - Doria Pamphilj
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj1 upcomingVia del CorsoA princely palace on Via del Corso, still owned by the Doria Pamphilj family, whose private apartments occasionally open for small concerts.See what's on → - Palazzo FarnesePalazzo Farnese1 upcomingCampo de' FioriMichelangelo-era Renaissance palace that is now the French Embassy, visitable only on booked guided tours that take in the Carracci gallery and, on some tours, Roman-era underground rooms.See what's on →
- Museo del Corso – Palazzo Sciarra
Palazzo Sciarra Colonna (Museo del Corso)2 upcomingVia del CorsoFondazione Roma's palace museum just off Via del Corso, free to visit, with its own collection and temporary exhibitions.See what's on → - Pantheon
Pantheon2 upcomingPantheonHadrian's domed temple, still a working church (Santa Maria ad Martyres), now run as a state museum site with a ticketed entrance.See what's on → - CampidoglioPiazza del Campidoglio1 upcomingCampidoglioMichelangelo's square on the Capitoline Hill, seat of Rome's city hall and the Capitoline Museums.See what's on →
- Rimessa Roscioli
Rimessa Roscioli1 upcomingCampo de' Fiori / RegolaWine bar and restaurant from the Roscioli family of bakers and delicatessen owners, known for sommelier-led group tasting dinners.See what's on → - Scholars Lounge
Scholars Lounge Irish Pub2 upcomingPiazza VeneziaA big Irish pub just off Piazza Venezia, popular with English speakers for sport on the screens, karaoke, live music and a weekly quiz. Open daily from 11:00 (10:00 at weekends) until 3:30.See what's on → - Sketching Rome Tours
Sketching Rome Tours1 upcomingJewish GhettoSmall English-language sketching classes held outdoors around the historic centre, using pen, pencil and travel watercolours.See what's on → - Teatro Argentina
Teatro Argentina2 upcomingLargo ArgentinaRome's historic 18th-century playhouse on Largo Argentina, where Rossini's Barber of Seville premiered. Today it is the main stage of the Teatro di Roma and hosts the Accademia Filarmonica Romana's evening concerts.See what's on → - Westin Excelsior
The Westin Excelsior Rome1 upcomingVia VenetoA grand Belle Époque hotel on Via Veneto whose ballrooms host fairs and gala events.See what's on → - Villa Medici
Villa Medici (French Academy in Rome)3 upcomingSpanish Steps / PincioThe Medici villa on the Pincio above the Spanish Steps, home of the French Academy, with guided tours of its gardens and contemporary art exhibitions.See what's on → - VIVE
Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia (VIVE)1 upcomingPiazza VeneziaThe state institute running the white Vittoriano monument (with its panoramic terrace and Risorgimento museum) and the Renaissance Palazzo Venezia museum across the square.See what's on → - Via di Monserrato Wine Tasting
Wine Bar at Via di Monserrato 41 upcomingCampo de' FioriSmall boutique enoteca near Campo de' Fiori run by Patrizia and her sommelier son Giampaolo, hosting seated tastings of Italian wines.See what's on → - weBag
weBag1 upcomingPantheonA small leather-goods workshop near the Pantheon founded by Claudia, which runs short sessions making a leather pochette.See what's on →