2 Best Sights in Piazza di Spagna, Rome

Located in a former monastery, this small museum displays a capsule collection of modern art, with an emphasis on Italian artists. The permanent collection is too large to be displayed at once, so exhibitions rotate, displaying paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Giorgio de Chirico, Mario Mafai, Scipione, Gino Severini, and Giorgio Morandi.

First designed by Giovanni Antonio De' Rossi for the Marquis of Aste in the 17th century, this Renaissance palace is better known as the home of Letizia Bonaparte, who purchased the elegant building in 1818. Napoleon's mother, who lived here until her death in 1836, was fond of sitting on the curious covered green balcony that wraps around a corner of the first floor. The stately home overlooks the Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia, as well as the nonstop motion of Rome's busiest piazza. Palazzo Bonaparte is open for temporary exhibits and has hosted the works of blockbuster artists like Vincent Van Gogh and M. C. Escher, among others.