Twelve reasons
to look for the missing names.

You could spend a week in Rome and never notice them.

Not because they're hidden.

Some have temples named after them. Others are carved into marble, buried beneath churches, or standing in plain sight on streets you've probably already walked.

There's a giant marble foot near the Pantheon that most people pass without a second thought. A courtyard where women once guarded a flame that was never supposed to go out. And an ancient temple whose name tells only part of a much stranger story.

Rome has always been very good at remembering its emperors, generals, and conquerors.

The women take a little more looking.

And what women they were.

Goddesses with extraordinary responsibilities. Priestesses with privileges most Roman women could only dream of. Empresses whose faces appeared on coins. And ordinary women whose lives somehow became the subject of laws, legends, and public scandals.

Some were worshipped. Some were feared. Some were expected to behave impeccably while the men around them did considerably less.

Rome, it turns out, has a complicated relationship with women.

You can see it in the temples, the statues, the inscriptions, and sometimes in what's missing from them.

That's the wonderful thing about this city. History isn't neatly put away in museums. It's under your feet, behind café terraces, around the corner from the place where you stopped for gelato.

And once you know what to look for, even an ordinary walk becomes something else.

There are twelve stories waiting for you here.

You won't need a toga.

Just a little curiosity, comfortable shoes, and perhaps an extra hour before dinner.

You don't need to know what happens before you go. You only need somewhere worth walking toward.

JUNO PORTALS is designed primarily for women traveling alone.

That doesn't mean every experience has to be solitary. It means the product starts from a simple reality: sometimes you're already here, the day is yours, and you'd like a reason to go somewhere you might otherwise have passed.

Read the access note for the portal you choose. Some places are further out than they look on the map, and some are private or working places you only see from outside.

VENUS OVER THE DRAIN, HER NAME BELOW HIS and A NAME CUT AWAY need a ticket or paid entry.

Prices and hours change. Check them on the day.

Curiosity gets you there. Your judgment always comes first.