Rome Foro Italico apartments for rent, bed and breakfast, vacation rentals in Rome : district Foro Italico

The main entrance to the Foro Italico is aligned with the Duca d'Aosta bridge. This leads to Piazza De Bosis where there is a huge obelisk in Carrara marble, dedicated to Mussolini, it is 36.3 metres high (including the basement). The wide Viale del Foro Italico, all with white and black mosaics, leads to the Piazzale del Foro Italico. On both sides of the street is the former Academy of Music, now Palazzo dell’ISEF and seat of the auditorium of the RAI, and more on the left the covered pool (ex Palazzo delle Terme), with floor and wall mosaics. On the right side there is the CONI headquarters which consists of two wings connected by a main building. In the centre of Piazzale del Foro Italico, there is the Fontana della Sfera, a monolith of 3 metres in diameter surrounded by mosaics. At the lower end is the Olympic Stadium, the old Stadio dei Cipressi with simple grassy terraces, from which was started the construction of the walls in 1937, then interrupted by the war. The new stadium with 80,000 seats was made between 1950 and 53. It was almost completely rebuilt during the Football World Cup in 1990 by using prefabricated elements and the roofing of a structure with a grid system, which certainly caused considerable damage to all environmental and the surroundings. On the right side of the Olympic stadium there is the Stadio dei Marmi, surrounded by 60 statues of athletes, at the grandstand there are two groups of wrestlers in bronze. Among other sports facilities (tennis, Olympic pool, etc.), the Foro Italico complex includes several important buildings: La Farnesina, seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Casa internazionale dello Studente, the Palazzi della Foresteria enclose the complex in the north and south.