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Rome is the capital city of Italy. It is located on the Tiber river, in the central part of the country near the Mediterranean Sea. The Vatican City, located in an enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Inhabited for over 3000 years — the city was the seat of the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and the Roman Empire — it has now grown to cover a metropolitan area with more than three million inhabitants, making it the largest city of the Italian peninsula.
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THE APPIAN WAYThe via Appia was the paradigm of all subsequent Roman roads. It was the very symbol of the republic, which brought order to the terrain and peace and freedom to the peoples of Italy, at least in their ideals. The Roman army depended for its success on the use of bases in which to prepare itself for battle and to refresh ... |
ARCH OF CONSTANTINEThe Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on Oct. 28th, 312 AD. Dedicated in 315 AD, it is the latest of the extant triumphal arches in Rome ... |
THE COLOSSEUMThe Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an amphitheatre in Rome, capable of seating 50,000 spectators, which was once used for gladiatorial combat. It was built by Emperor Vespasian and his son, Titus, between AD 72 and AD 90. It was built at the site of Nero's enormous palace ... |
THE PANTHEONThe Pantheon is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of the Roman state religion, but has been a Christian church since the 7th century AD. It is the only building from the Greco-Roman world which is completely intact and which has been in continuous use throughout its history ... |
QUIRINAL PALACEThe Quirinal Palace (known in Italian as the Quirinale) is the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic upon the Quirinal Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome. The palace, located on the Via del Quirinale and facing onto the Piazza del Quirinale, was built in 1573 by Pope Gregory XIII as a papal summer residence ... |
THE SPANISH STEPSThe Spanish Steps is a famous landmark in Rome, ramping a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and the church Trinità dei Monti above. The monumental stairway was built with French funds between 1721-1725 in order to link the Bourbon Spanish embassy, with the Bourbon French church above ... |
TRAJAN'S COLUMNTrajan's Column is a monument in Rome raised by order of emperor Trajan. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. Finished in 113, the spiral bas-relief commemorates Trajan's victory in his military campaigns to conquer Dacia ... |
TREVI FOUNTAINThe Trevi Fountain is the largest and most ambitious of the Baroque fountains of Rome. The fountain at the juncture of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the Aqua Virgo (in Italian: Acqua Vergine), one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to Rome ... |
TRITON FOUNTAINBernini's baroque Triton Fountain is located in Piazza Barberini, Rome, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini. The fountain is located near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (Now the museum, Galeria de Arte Antica), which Bernini helped redesign for his patron Maffeo Barberini, who had become pope as Urban VIII ... |
VILLA BORGHESEVilla Borghese is a large landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the second largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 148 acres) after that of the Villa Doria Pamphili ... |
VILLA FARNESINAVilla Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance villa in Via della Lungara, in the central district of Trastevere in the centre of Rome. The villa was built by Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 1506–1510, the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi ... |
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