Museo delle Mura — Attraction in Rome

My visit was a real pleasure! More than a "traditional" museum, it is an historical place, where you are let wonder around completely free (and entrance is also always free of charge). You can climb all the way up in the door of the walls and you'll get views on the lushy countryside/via Appia, as well as on different surrounding neighborhoods, of which you'll be able to recognise some main buildings (and the panels there will help you spot them, trees and vegetation cover permitting, in the summer). Then you can walk along/inside quite a long stretch of walls, on the other side a very nicely kept private garden, and there's even a piece of frescoes. To enter you have to ring and they will open the door for you; up the first set of stairs staff is sitting in a small room and will give you a brief explanation, the free tickets and plastic reusable/refillable bottles to use in the many Roman drinking fountains too! (At least, when I was visiting.) Finally, the toilets were available and clean, and only a few people...

The Museo delle Mura ("museum of the walls") is an archaeological museum in Rome, Italy. It is housed in the first and second floors of the Porta San Sebastiano at the beginning of the Appian Way. It provides an exhibition on the walls of Rome and their building techniques, as well as the opportunity to walk along the inside of one of the best-preserved stretches of the Aurelian Wall. The museum is free of charge. The museum in its present form, was officially opened in 1990. Prior to 1939, the Porta San Sebastiano (also known as the Porta Appia) had been open to the public but it was then taken over by Ettore Muti, the Secretary of the Italian Fascist Party. White-and-black mosaics in some rooms date back to that time. From 1970, there was a small museum connected to the internal parapet of the Aurelian Wall but this museum was only open to the public on Sundays, and, after a few...

Wow! Such a great surprise to discover a hidden gem like this! It's FREE! it wasn't busy at all (on a cold yet beautiful sunny Sunday noon), for some time we were the only ones there until a large guided group arrived the inside of the wall is impressive and you can walk inside it for a few hundred meters.

Unfortunately you can't climb all the way up the tower as it is closed for renovations but you can go up the bridge above the gate (above the road) and see some view of the park.

There is signage I'm Italian and in English, there's a toilet and even a little play room for kids in which they can play with small wooden blocks and try to build a model of...