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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.The Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope..It is the oldest and ranks first among the four Papal Basilicas or major basilicas of Rome. It claims the title of ecumenical mother church among Roman Catholics. The President of the French Republic, currently François Hollande, is ex officio the "first and only honorary canon" of the basilica, a title held by the heads of the French state since King Henry IV of France.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.?It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy?It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.?The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. ?The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high.?The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification.?The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I.?The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012 The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy. Standing 26 metres (85.3 feet) high and 20 metres (65.6 feet) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.?The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome.?The sea inspired the scenery is dominated by a rocky cliff in the center where there is a statue of Poseidon driving a chariot in the shape of a shell pulled by two winged horses. Over the four Corinthian columns there are four smaller allegorical statues (from left to right): the "Abundance of Fruit", the "Fertility of the fields", the "Richness of Autumn" and the "Amenity of the gardens".
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican. Bacchus.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza di Spagna,the Spanish Steps and the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti.In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the Old Boat"), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. According to an unlikely legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain installed after he had been impressed by a boat brought here by a flood of the Tiber river..In the piazza, at the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in 1821. On the same right side stands the 15th century former cardinal Lorenzo Cybo de Mari's palace.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza del Popolo seen from the Pincio gardens..It is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian).The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls. Before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Palatin Hill: Boni Garden
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935. The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas.  The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high. The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification. The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I. The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012 The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy. Standing 26 metres (85.3 feet) high and 20 metres (65.6 feet) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.?The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome.?The sea inspired the scenery is dominated by a rocky cliff in the center where there is a statue of Poseidon driving a chariot in the shape of a shell pulled by two winged horses. Over the four Corinthian columns there are four smaller allegorical statues (from left to right): the "Abundance of Fruit", the "Fertility of the fields", the "Richness of Autumn" and the "Amenity of the gardens".
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Field of Mars - Piazza Navona. Fountain of Neptun.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Statue, Ponte San Pio X.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. .The treasures of the Vatican. Exit: stairs double helix..The Vatican Museums spiral staircase is one of the most photographed in the world, and certainly one of the most beautiful. Named by mistake "The Bramante stairs", but designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932, the broad steps are somewhere between a ramp and a staircase. The stairs are actually two separate helixes, one leading up and the other leading down, that twist together in a double helix formation.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. .The treasures of the Vatican.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican. The Round Room..Round Room, built by Michelangelo Simonetti in the late 18th century in a pure Neo-classical style. The dome is actually modelled on the Pantheon and has a diameter of 21.60 metres. A huge round monolithic porphyry basin stands in the middle of the room: it measures almost five metres across, comes from the Domus Aurea and was brought here in the late 18th century. A 2nd century Hercules in gilded bronze found near the Theatre of Pompey and a 3rd century mosaic from the Baths of Otricoli (region Umbria) are also fascinating.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012.St. Peter's Square - Piazza San Pietro - Vatican..The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace". Before the construction of the present basilica, the western part of the square was occupied by a large peristyle which gave access to the old building was built by Emperor Constantine. In the origins, the square used to be the place where Nerone Circus and Gardens where located, and where many Christians, including Saint Peter, suffered from martyrdom. In 1936 the architects M. Piacentini and A. Spaccarelli started the construction of via della Conciliazione in order to grant to the square a symmetric and monumental entrance; but this caused the destruction of the old Medieval village and of its typical narrow streets, a choice that aroused bitter controversy.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.The Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope..It is the oldest and ranks first among the four Papal Basilicas or major basilicas of Rome. It claims the title of ecumenical mother church among Roman Catholics. The President of the French Republic, currently François Hollande, is ex officio the "first and only honorary canon" of the basilica, a title held by the heads of the French state since King Henry IV of France.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Pincio gardens, near the The Villa Borghese gardens.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian).The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls. Before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..National day.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Foutain near Foro Boario, Aventin Hill.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Field of Mars - Near Piazza Navona. By night.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Field of Mars - Piazza Navona. Sant'Agnese in Agone and the Fountain of the four Rivers.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Sant'Angelo Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo by night.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. .The treasures of the Vatican.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. .The treasures of the Vatican. .The rooms were painted in this chronological order: Room of the Segnatura, Room of Heliodorus, Room of the Fire in the Borgo and Room of Constantine. ?This description will follow the compulsory route sequence. The Room of Constantine was on the most part painted by Raphael's pupils after the master died suddenly on April 6th, 1520. Here, the ?Battle at Milvio Bridge? on the wall opposite the windows showing Constantine with the cross that foretold his victory over the pagan Maxentius.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican. Laocoon..The statue of Laocoon and His Sons (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), also called the Laocoon Group, is a monumental sculpture in marble now in the Vatican Museums. The statue is attributed by the Roman author Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents...The story of Laocoon had been the subject of a play by Sophocles. Laocoön was killed after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear. The snakes were sent by Poseidon  and were interpreted by the Trojans as proof that the horse was a sacred object. The most famous account of these events is in Virgil's Aeneid.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican. Entrance of Museums
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza di Spagna,the Spanish Steps and the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti.In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the Old Boat"), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. According to an unlikely legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain installed after he had been impressed by a boat brought here by a flood of the Tiber river..In the piazza, at the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in 1821. On the same right side stands the 15th century former cardinal Lorenzo Cybo de Mari's palace.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Pincio gardens, near the The Villa Borghese gardens.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian).The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls. Before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Oldest Roman bridge in Rome.The Pons Fabricius (Ponte Fabricio, meaning "Fabricius' Bridge") or Ponte dei Quattro Capi, is the oldest Roman bridge in Rome, still existing in its original state. Built in 62 BC, it spans half of the Tiber River, from the Campus Martius on the east side to Tiber Island in the middle. Quattro Capi ("four heads") refers to the two marble pillars of the two-faced Janus herms on the parapet, which were moved here from the nearby Church of St. Gregory (Monte Savello) in the 14th century..It was built to replace an earlier wooden bridge destroyed by fire. Completely intact from Roman antiquity, it has been in continuous use ever since.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Near  the ancient Basilica of Santa Sabina: the scowling face of Giacomo Della Porta's fountain. Perhaps made in reference to Oceanus, a River god. The mask had several previous locations, including the Forum and Lungotevere Gianicolense, before coming to rest on the peaceful Aventine Hill.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Inside Colosseum?The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium.?Its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81-96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).?Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. ?In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum remained in service for nearly 500 years, the latest games lasting until the sixth century;?Today, it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Palatin Hill: Foro Romano.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Santa Maria in Aracoeli..The Basilica of St. Mary of the Altar of Heaven is a titular basilica in Rome, located on the highest summit of the Campidoglio. It is still the designated Church of the city council of Rome, which uses the ancient title of Senatus Populusque Romanus. The present Cardinal Priest of the Titulus Sancta Mariae de Aracoeli is Salvatore De Giorgi..A medieval legend claimed that the church was built over an Augustan Ara primogeniti Dei, in the place where the Tiburtine Sibyl prophesied to Augustus the coming of the Christ. A later legend substituted an apparition of the Virgin Mary. In the Middle Ages, condemned criminals were executed at the foot of the steps.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column in Rome which commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. Completed in AD 113, the freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas relief, that artistically describes the epic wars between the Romans and Dacians (101-102 and 105-106). Its design has inspired numerous victory columns..The structure is about 35 metres (125 ft) including its large pedestal. The 190-metre (625 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times. .The interior of Trajan's column is hollow: entered by a small doorway at one side of the base, a spiral stair gives access to the platform above, having offered the visitor in antiquity a view over the surrounding Trajan's forum.?Trajan's column, and especially its helical stairway design, exerted a considerable influence on subsequent Roman architecture.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935. The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas.  The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high. The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification. The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I. The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.?It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy?It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.?The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. ?The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high.?The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification.?The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I.?The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.?It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy?It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.?The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. ?The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high.?The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification.?The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I.?The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.?It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy?It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.?The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. ?The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high.?The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification.?The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I.?The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.?It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy?It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.?The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. ?The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high.?The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification.?The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I.?The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012 .Piazza della Rotonda. The Pantheon (from Greek, an adjective meaning "to every god") is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD..Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.[3] The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft)..It is one of the best-preserved of all Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a Roman Catholic church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as "Santa Maria della Rotonda." The square in front of the Pantheon is called Piazza della Rotonda...In the aftermath of the Battle of Actium (31 BC), Marcus Agrippa built and dedicated the original Pantheon during his third consulship (27 BC). Located in the Campus Martius, at the time of its construction, the area of the Pantheon was on the outskirts of Rome, and the area had a rural appearance. Under the Roman Republic the Campus Martius had served as a gathering place for elections and the army.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012 The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy. Standing 26 metres (85.3 feet) high and 20 metres (65.6 feet) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. The sea inspired the scenery is dominated by a rocky cliff in the center where there is a statue of Poseidon driving a chariot in the shape of a shell pulled by two winged horses. Over the four Corinthian columns there are four smaller allegorical statues (from left to right): the "Abundance of Fruit", the "Fertility of the fields", the "Richness of Autumn" and the "Amenity of the gardens".
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Field of Mars - Near Torre Argentina.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Field of Mars - Near Piazza Navona. By night.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Field of Mars - Piazza Navona. Sant'Agnese in Agone.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Field of Mars - Piazza Navona. Sant'Agnese in Agone and the Fountain of the four Rivers.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. Sant'Angelo Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. The Tiber near Vatican.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. .The treasures of the Vatican. Exit: stairs double helix..The Vatican Museums spiral staircase is one of the most photographed in the world, and certainly one of the most beautiful. Named by mistake "The Bramante stairs", but designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932, the broad steps are somewhere between a ramp and a staircase. The stairs are actually two separate helixes, one leading up and the other leading down, that twist together in a double helix formation.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. .The treasures of the Vatican. Exit: stairs double helix..The Vatican Museums spiral staircase is one of the most photographed in the world, and certainly one of the most beautiful. Named by mistake "The Bramante stairs", but designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932, the broad steps are somewhere between a ramp and a staircase. The stairs are actually two separate helixes, one leading up and the other leading down, that twist together in a double helix formation.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. .The treasures of the Vatican.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The treasures of the Vatican. The Round Room..Round Room, built by Michelangelo Simonetti in the late 18th century in a pure Neo-classical style. The dome is actually modelled on the Pantheon and has a diameter of 21.60 metres. A huge round monolithic porphyry basin stands in the middle of the room: it measures almost five metres across, comes from the Domus Aurea and was brought here in the late 18th century. A 2nd century Hercules in gilded bronze found near the Theatre of Pompey and a 3rd century mosaic from the Baths of Otricoli (region Umbria) are also fascinating.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012.The treasures of the Vatican - Entrance of Museums
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012.Rome. Ponte Sant'Angelo - Sant'Angelo Bridge
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012.St. Peter's Square - Piazza San Pietro - Vatican. Via della Conciliazione..The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace".?Before the construction of the present basilica, the western part of the square was occupied by a large peristyle which gave access to the old building was built by Emperor Constantine.?In the origins, the square used to be the place where Nerone Circus and Gardens where located, and where many Christians, including Saint Peter, suffered from martyrdom.?In 1936 the architects M. Piacentini and A. Spaccarelli started the construction of via della Conciliazione in order to grant to the square a symmetric and monumental entrance; but this caused the destruction of the old Medieval village and of its typical narrow streets, a choice that aroused bitter controversy.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012.St. Peter's Square - Piazza San Pietro - Vatican..The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace". Before the construction of the present basilica, the western part of the square was occupied by a large peristyle which gave access to the old building was built by Emperor Constantine. In the origins, the square used to be the place where Nerone Circus and Gardens where located, and where many Christians, including Saint Peter, suffered from martyrdom. In 1936 the architects M. Piacentini and A. Spaccarelli started the construction of via della Conciliazione in order to grant to the square a symmetric and monumental entrance; but this caused the destruction of the old Medieval village and of its typical narrow streets, a choice that aroused bitter controversy.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Capitoline Hill. Rome City Town Hall
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The square in front of the Lateran Palace has an obelisk commissioned by Pharaoh Thuthmose III and completed by his grandson Thutmose IV in Karnak. It was placed in the Circus Maximus before being re-erected in its current location.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The square in front of the Lateran Palace has an obelisk commissioned by Pharaoh Thuthmose III and completed by his grandson Thutmose IV in Karnak. It was placed in the Circus Maximus before being re-erected in its current location.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza della Repubblica and the Fountain of the Naiads..This square is located at the summit of the Viminal Hill, next to the Termini station. .The former name of the piazza, Piazza dell'Esedra, still common today, originates in the large exedra of the baths of Diocletian, which gives the piazza its shape. .The fountain in this square was originally the fountain of the Acqua Pia (connected to the aqua Marcia aqueduct), commissioned this site by Pope Pius IX in 1870. It originally showed four chalk lions replaced in 1901 with sculptures of Naiads..The naiads represented are the Nymph of the Lakes (recognisable by the swan she holds), the Nymph of the Rivers (stretched out on a monster of the rivers), the Nymph of the Oceans (riding a horse symbolising of the sea), and the Nymph of the Underground Waters (leaning over a mysterious dragon). In the centre is Rutelli's Glauco group, symbolizing the dominion of the man over natural force.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza della Repubblica and the Fountain of the Naiads..This square is located at the summit of the Viminal Hill, next to the Termini station. .The former name of the piazza, Piazza dell'Esedra, still common today, originates in the large exedra of the baths of Diocletian, which gives the piazza its shape. .The fountain in this square was originally the fountain of the Acqua Pia (connected to the aqua Marcia aqueduct), commissioned this site by Pope Pius IX in 1870. It originally showed four chalk lions replaced in 1901 with sculptures of Naiads..The naiads represented are the Nymph of the Lakes (recognisable by the swan she holds), the Nymph of the Rivers (stretched out on a monster of the rivers), the Nymph of the Oceans (riding a horse symbolising of the sea), and the Nymph of the Underground Waters (leaning over a mysterious dragon). In the centre is Rutelli's Glauco group, symbolizing the dominion of the man over natural force.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Porta Alchemica or alchemical door, or Alchemy Gate or Magic Portal, is a monument built between 1678 and 1680 by Massimiliano Palombara marquis of Pietraforte (1614-1680) in his residence, located in the east of Rome on the Esquilino hill. Porta Alchemica is the only survivor of the five gates of the Palombara villa...According to a legend dated 1802 , a pilgrim "stibeum" (from Latin: stibium = antimony) was hosted in the villa for a night. The "pellegrino", identifiable with the alchemist Giustiniani Bono, stayed for a night in the gardens of the villa in search of a mysterious herb capable of producing gold, the next morning he was seen disappearing forever through the door, but left behind a few flakes of gold fruit of a successful alchemical transmutation, and a mysterious paper full of puzzles and magic symbols that would contain the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. .The marquis had engraved on the five gates of the villa Palombara and on the walls of the mansion, the content of the manuscript with symbols and riddles in the hope that one day someone would be able to understand them..The particular drawing on the pediment of Porta Alchemica, with the two triangles overlap and inscriptions in Latin, appears  in a bookmark possessed by Berenger Saunière, who became the parish priest at Rennes-le-Château in 1885.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza di Spagna,the Spanish Steps and the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti.In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the Old Boat"), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. According to an unlikely legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain installed after he had been impressed by a boat brought here by a flood of the Tiber river..In the piazza, at the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in 1821. On the same right side stands the 15th century former cardinal Lorenzo Cybo de Mari's palace.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Pincio gardens, near the The Villa Borghese gardens.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Pincio gardens, near the The Villa Borghese gardens..A homeless doing her laundry.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Rome seen from the Pincio gardens, near the The Villa Borghese gardens.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian).The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls. Before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian).The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls. Before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian).The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls. Before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..National day.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..National day.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Oldest Roman bridge in Rome.The Pons Fabricius (Ponte Fabricio, meaning "Fabricius' Bridge") or Ponte dei Quattro Capi, is the oldest Roman bridge in Rome, still existing in its original state. Built in 62 BC, it spans half of the Tiber River, from the Campus Martius on the east side to Tiber Island in the middle. Quattro Capi ("four heads") refers to the two marble pillars of the two-faced Janus herms on the parapet, which were moved here from the nearby Church of St. Gregory (Monte Savello) in the 14th century..It was built to replace an earlier wooden bridge destroyed by fire. Completely intact from Roman antiquity, it has been in continuous use ever since.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Via di Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Near  the ancient Basilica of Santa Sabina: the scowling face of Giacomo Della Porta's fountain. Perhaps made in reference to Oceanus, a River god. The mask had several previous locations, including the Forum and Lungotevere Gianicolense, before coming to rest on the peaceful Aventine Hill.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Near  the ancient Basilica of Santa Sabina: the scowling face of Giacomo Della Porta's fountain. Perhaps made in reference to Oceanus, a River god. The mask had several previous locations, including the Forum and Lungotevere Gianicolense, before coming to rest on the peaceful Aventine Hill.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Near  the ancient Basilica of Santa Sabina: the scowling face of Giacomo Della Porta's fountain. Perhaps made in reference to Oceanus, a River god. The mask had several previous locations, including the Forum and Lungotevere Gianicolense, before coming to rest on the peaceful Aventine Hill.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Garden of Oranges, behind the Basilica of Santa Sabina at the Aventine..The tranquil Garden of Oranges, also known as Parco Savello, affords fantastic views of the many monuments, roof tops and domes of Rome, encapsulating flavors of the modern and medieval on its shady walkways.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Foutain near Foro Boario, Aventin Hill.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid in Rome, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. Due to its incorporation into the city's fortifications, it is today one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome...The sharply pointed shape of the pyramid is strongly reminiscent of the pyramids of Nubia, in particular of the kingdom of Meroë, which had been attacked by Rome in 23 BC. .The similarity suggests that Cestius had possibly served in that campaign. His pyramid was not the only one in Rome; a larger one?the so-called "pyramid of Romulus"?of similar form but unknown origins stood between the Vatican and the Mausoleum of Hadrian but was demolished in the 16th century..During the construction of the Aurelian Walls between 271 and 275, the pyramid was incorporated into the walls to form a triangular bastion. .The origins of the pyramid were forgotten during the Middle Ages. The inhabitants of Rome came to believe that it was the tomb of Remus and that its counterpart near the Vatican was the tomb of Romulus. Its true provenance was clarified by Pope Alexander VII's excavations in the 1660s, which cleared the vegetation that had overgrown the pyramid, uncovered the inscriptions on its faces, tunnelled into the tomb's burial chamber and found the bases of two bronze statues that had stood alongside the pyramid.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid in Rome, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. Due to its incorporation into the city's fortifications, it is today one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome...The sharply pointed shape of the pyramid is strongly reminiscent of the pyramids of Nubia, in particular of the kingdom of Meroë, which had been attacked by Rome in 23 BC. .The similarity suggests that Cestius had possibly served in that campaign. His pyramid was not the only one in Rome; a larger one?the so-called "pyramid of Romulus"?of similar form but unknown origins stood between the Vatican and the Mausoleum of Hadrian but was demolished in the 16th century..During the construction of the Aurelian Walls between 271 and 275, the pyramid was incorporated into the walls to form a triangular bastion. .The origins of the pyramid were forgotten during the Middle Ages. The inhabitants of Rome came to believe that it was the tomb of Remus and that its counterpart near the Vatican was the tomb of Romulus. Its true provenance was clarified by Pope Alexander VII's excavations in the 1660s, which cleared the vegetation that had overgrown the pyramid, uncovered the inscriptions on its faces, tunnelled into the tomb's burial chamber and found the bases of two bronze statues that had stood alongside the pyramid.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Inside Colosseum The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium. Its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81-96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia). Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology.  In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum remained in service for nearly 500 years, the latest games lasting until the sixth century; Today, it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Palatin Hill: Foro Romano.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Palatin Hill: Foro Romano.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Palatin Hill: Foro Romano.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Palatin Hill: Boni Garden
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Colosseum and Arch of Constantine.?The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium.?Its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81-96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).?Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. ?In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum remained in service for nearly 500 years, the latest games lasting until the sixth century;?Today, it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome...Arch of Constantine?The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated near the Colosseum and Palatine Hill. It was erected by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312.?The arch spans the Via Triumphalis, the way taken by the emperors when they entered the city in triumph. ?It measures 21.10 meters high, 25.7 m wide and 7.4 m deep
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Colosseum and Arch of Constantine. The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium. Its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81-96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia). Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology.  In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum remained in service for nearly 500 years, the latest games lasting until the sixth century; Today, it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome...Arch of Constantine The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated near the Colosseum and Palatine Hill. It was erected by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312. The arch spans the Via Triumphalis, the way taken by the emperors when they entered the city in triumph.  It measures 21.10 meters high, 25.7 m wide and 7.4 m deep
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Colosseum and Arch of Constantine.?The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium.?Its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81-96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).?Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. ?In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum remained in service for nearly 500 years, the latest games lasting until the sixth century;?Today, it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome...Arch of Constantine?The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated near the Colosseum and Palatine Hill. It was erected by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312.?The arch spans the Via Triumphalis, the way taken by the emperors when they entered the city in triumph. ?It measures 21.10 meters high, 25.7 m wide and 7.4 m deep
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Colosseum and Arch of Constantine.?The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium.?Its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81-96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).?Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. ?In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum remained in service for nearly 500 years, the latest games lasting until the sixth century;?Today, it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome...Arch of Constantine?The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated near the Colosseum and Palatine Hill. It was erected by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312.?The arch spans the Via Triumphalis, the way taken by the emperors when they entered the city in triumph. ?It measures 21.10 meters high, 25.7 m wide and 7.4 m deep
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Colosseum?The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium.?Its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81-96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).?Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. ?In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum remained in service for nearly 500 years, the latest games lasting until the sixth century;?Today, it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Santa Maria in Aracoeli..The Basilica of St. Mary of the Altar of Heaven is a titular basilica in Rome, located on the highest summit of the Campidoglio. It is still the designated Church of the city council of Rome, which uses the ancient title of Senatus Populusque Romanus. The present Cardinal Priest of the Titulus Sancta Mariae de Aracoeli is Salvatore De Giorgi..A medieval legend claimed that the church was built over an Augustan Ara primogeniti Dei, in the place where the Tiburtine Sibyl prophesied to Augustus the coming of the Christ. A later legend substituted an apparition of the Virgin Mary. In the Middle Ages, condemned criminals were executed at the foot of the steps.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column in Rome which commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. Completed in AD 113, the freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas relief, that artistically describes the epic wars between the Romans and Dacians (101-102 and 105-106). Its design has inspired numerous victory columns..The structure is about 35 metres (125 ft) including its large pedestal. The 190-metre (625 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times. .The interior of Trajan's column is hollow: entered by a small doorway at one side of the base, a spiral stair gives access to the platform above, having offered the visitor in antiquity a view over the surrounding Trajan's forum. Trajan's column, and especially its helical stairway design, exerted a considerable influence on subsequent Roman architecture.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Trajan Forum This forum was constructed on the order of Emperor Trajan with the spoils of war from the conquest of Dacia, which ended in 106..To build this monumental complex, extensive excavations were required: workers eliminated the sides of the Quirinal and Capitoline Hills, which closed the valley occupied by the Imperial forums toward the Campus Martius.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Trajan Forum?This forum was constructed on the order of Emperor Trajan with the spoils of war from the conquest of Dacia, which ended in 106..To build this monumental complex, extensive excavations were required: workers eliminated the sides of the Quirinal and Capitoline Hills, which closed the valley occupied by the Imperial forums toward the Campus Martius.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The Doria Pamphilj Gallery is a large art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. It is situated between the Via del Corso and Via della Gatta. The principal entrance is on the Via del Corso. Like the palace, it is still privately owned by the princely Roman family Doria Pamphilj..In 1291 two Doria brothers bought the lordship of Oneglia, which was co-owned by their descendants until the late 15th century. Admiral Andrea Doria fought for the French at the battle of Crécy.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..The National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or Altar of the Fatherland or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.?It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy?It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.?The monument is built of white marble from Botticino, Brescia, and features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. ?The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide and 70 m (230 ft) high.?The base of the structure houses the museum of Italian Reunification.?The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I.?The monument was controversial since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
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