Albergo Rosso

Southern Rome


This iconic housing block was designed by Innocenzo Sabbatini between 1928 and '29. It's a compelling yet strange combination of modern red bricks with classical hints.


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Nearby Southern Rome attractions

1. Quartiere Garbatella

0.37 MILES

A favourite location for films and TV, Quartiere Garbatella was originally conceived as a workers’ residential quarter, but in the 1920s the Fascists…

2. Via Appia Antica

0.62 MILES

Via Appia Antica is a beautiful cobbled thoroughfare flanked by grassy fields, ancient Roman structures and towering pine trees.

3. Chiesa del Domine Quo Vadis

0.65 MILES

This pint-sized church marks the spot where St Peter, fleeing Rome, met a vision of Jesus going the other way. When Peter asked, ‘Domine, quo vadis?’ …

4. Museo Capitoline Centrale Montemartini

0.69 MILES

Housed in a former power station, this bold outpost of the Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) juxtaposes classical sculpture with diesel engines and…

6. Caserma dell’Aeronautica

0.78 MILES

It's fading fast: Bolognese artist Blu (www.blublu.org) painted this former military warehouse in a rainbow of sinister faces, incorporating the building…

7. Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura

0.9 MILES

The largest church in Rome after St Peter’s (and the world’s third-largest), this vast basilica stands on the site where St Paul was buried after being…

8. Porta San Paolo

0.9 MILES

Built after the barbarians’ invasion of Rome, the remarkably well-preserved Porta San Paolo once served as a southern gate in the 3rd-century Aurelian…