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Keats-Shelley Memorial House

Keats-Shelley Memorial House is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Monte Ara stands 782 m to the southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away.

The story

The Keats–Shelley Memorial House is a writer's house museum in Rome, Italy, commemorating the Romantic poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The museum houses one of the world's most extensive collections of memorabilia, letters, manuscripts, and paintings relating to Keats and Shelley, as well as Byron, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oscar Wilde, and others. It is located on the second floor of the building situated just to the south of the base of the Spanish Steps and east of the Piazza di Spagna.

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Dates from 1909.

Wikidata Q1133966, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What to expect

Fee
Yes

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.90575, 12.48258

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Artworks
Parks
  • Fontana del porto di Ripetta: 0.4 mi
  • Giardini del Quirinale: 0.4 mi
  • Giardini di Palazzo Barberini: 0.4 mi
  • Giardini Emiciclo di Nettuno: 0.5 mi
  • Giardini Emiciclo di Nettuno: 0.5 mi
Peaks
Waterfalls: 23
  • Cascata fosso Marrana: 5.4 mi
  • Cascata della Mola di Veio: 9.4 mi
  • Cascata del fosso degli Olmetti: 9.6 mi
  • Pisciacavallo: 11.9 mi
  • Cascata di San Bartolomeo: 13.1 mi
Beaches: 21
  • Le Palme: 13.5 mi
  • Bau Beach: 15.8 mi
  • Spiaggia dei gabbiani: 18.7 mi
  • Malibù: 20.7 mi
  • Spiaggia libera: 22.4 mi
Springs: 19
  • Sorgente (non potabile): 14.1 mi
  • Acqua Acetosa: 14.4 mi
  • Fonte Levinosa: 20.0 mi
  • Fonte di Virginio: 20.5 mi
  • Fonte: 21.4 mi
Nature reserves: 16
Picnic sites: 9
  • Lago Bullicante Ex Snia: 3.0 mi
  • Area Picnic 1: 9.3 mi
  • Area Picnic 2: 9.5 mi
  • Area attrezzata Tuscolo: 13.5 mi
  • Le Scampagnate di Sbardella Giuliano: 13.8 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Rupe Tarpea: 1.0 mi
  • Rupe del Parco Brin: 3.1 mi
  • Rupe del Lotto 6: 3.2 mi
  • Rupe sinistra delle Rocce di San Paolo: 3.2 mi
  • Falesia Ciampino: 9.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.8 miles of Keats-Shelley Memorial House. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Monte AraSE 128°782 m15.7 mi
Monte SalomoneESE 120°778 m15.0 mi
la MontagnolaESE 120°736 m14.4 mi
Trinità SS in AlgidoESE 119°710 m15.4 mi
Colle TondoSE 125°686 m15.8 mi
Monte TuscoloESE 122°670 m14.0 mi
Colle dell'AcquaSE 125°555 m14.8 mi
Colle della Tartaruga (Colle Procolio)SE 125°516 m14.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:1517:4518:22
June solstice05:3620:0720:49
September equinox06:5818:3319:10
December solstice07:3515:5716:42

Local time (Europe/Rome).

Where this comes from

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