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  • New-York, walk between Waldorf and Chrysler Building.
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  • Grand Central Terminal, colloquially called Grand Central Station, or shortened to simply Grand Central, is a commuter rail terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms:44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100. When the Long Island Rail Road's new station opens in 2016, Grand Central will offer a total of 75 tracks and 48 platforms. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres (19 ha).<br />
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Although the terminal has been properly called "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913, many people continue to refer to it as "Grand Central Station." "Grand Central Station" is the name of the nearby post office, as well as the name of a previous rail station on the site, and it is also used to refer to a New York City subway station at the same location.<br />
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According to the travel magazine Travel   Leisure in its October 2011 survey, Grand Central Terminal is "the world's number six most visited tourist attraction", bringing in approximately 21,600,000 visitors annually.
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  • New-York City, Manhattan by Night.
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  • Le long du cours Vittorio Emmanuele II. <br />
Aera Sacra Argentina.<br />
e Largo di Torre Argentina est une vaste place rectangulaire, située à Rome sur le corso Vittorio Emanuele, dans le quartier historique du Champ de Mars, presque entièrement occupée par un complexe archéologique comprenant quatre temples romains de l'époque républicaine.
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  • Le long du cours Vittorio Emmanuele II
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  • Le long du cours Vittorio Emmanuele II
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  • Le long du cours Vittorio Emmanuele II
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  • New-York City, Manhattan by Night.
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  • New-York City
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  • New-York City, Harlem. Sunday morning.<br />
Left Side.
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  • New-York City, Times Square
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • Ride to New-York at dusk.
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  • CAb in New-York City
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
The sculpture was chosen for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Later that year, the Nazis invaded Poland, preventing the sculpture's return to its homeland. In 1945, it was placed in Central Park by the Polish government as a symbol of the proud and courageous Polish people. It portrays King Jagiello, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, who united Lithuania and Poland and became king after marrying the Queen of Poland in 1386. The monument depicts the moment at the Battle of Grunewald of 1410 when the King crossed over his head the two swords handed to him by his adversaries, the Teutonic Knights of the Cross.<br />
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Under the watchful eyes of King Jagiello, the blue stone circle at the east end of Turtle Pond is the site of weekend international folk dance gatherings.<br />
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Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • New-York City, Harlem. Sunday morning.
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  • English Man in New-York City, Chelsea
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  • New-York City, Chinatown.
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, Madison Square.Echo.<br />
Peeking through the blooming dogwoods in Madison Square Park is 44-foot-high white statue of a head. The sculpture, created by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, is made of fiberglass resin and is modeled after the Greek myth of Echo. <br />
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The statue, called "Echo," wears a serene expression on its face and seems to be a magnet for tots and camera phones. Children played around the statue on Thursday while nearly every passerby on his or her lunch break stopped to snap a photo. <br />
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"Even the people who live here love it," said neighborhood resident Lisa Hin. She said that during the three-day installation process, she had noticed people escaping the office to snap photos and lunch near the statue.
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  • New-York City, Harlem. Sunday morning.
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • Considéré comme l'un des monuments les plus célèbres de Rome, la fontaine de Trevi fut commandée à Niccolò Salvi par le pape Clément XII. <br />
Anita Ekberg a donné la touche finale de cette renommée en s'y baignant en robe du soir dans "La Dolce Vita"<br />
L'origine de son nom serait du soit à une dénommée "Trevi" qui aurait sauvé sa virginité en indiquant l'endroit de cette source ou alors, plus probablement, de l'étymologie de trivium: tre vie en italien signifiant 3 rues, localisation de cette fontaine. Elle est également le rendez-vous par excellence des amoureux et des couples désirant un enfant.<br />
La coutume est de jeter une pièce de monnaie par le bras droit en tournant le dos à la fontaine avant de quitter Rome. Cette superstition étant que celui qui fait ce geste est assuré de revenir à Rome afin de retrouver cette pièce. <br />
Cependant, la monnaie de cette fontaine est collectée par les autorités et envoyée à des oeuvres de charité, qui se partagent près d'un million d'euros par an.
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  • Rome, via del Corso
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  • Piazza Venezia - La Piazza Venezia est une place du centre de Rome dominée par le monument dédié à Victor-Emmanuel II.<br />
D'un blanc immaculé, cet édifice impressionnant s'inspire de l'Autel de Pergame.<br />
Il a été bâti entre 1895 et 1911 pour célébrer les 50 ans de l'Unité Italienne en l'honneur du 1er roi de l'Italie unifiée. La conception du bâtiment a été réalisée par G. Sacconi.
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  • Piazza Venezia - La Piazza Venezia est une place du centre de Rome dominée par le monument dédié à Victor-Emmanuel II.<br />
D'un blanc immaculé, cet édifice impressionnant s'inspire de l'Autel de Pergame.<br />
Il a été bâti entre 1895 et 1911 pour célébrer les 50 ans de l'Unité Italienne en l'honneur du 1er roi de l'Italie unifiée. La conception du bâtiment a été réalisée par G. Sacconi.
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  • Basilique St Pierre. <br />
Cité du Vatican. Située sur ce que l'on appelait dans l'antiquité l'ager Vaticanus, aux bords du Tibre, et à quelque distance des Monts Vaticani, elle se dresse sur les anciens« jardins impériaux » qui furent propriété d'Agrippine.<br />
Son fils, l'empereur Caligula , y fit construire un cirque privé, le Circus Vaticanus, dont l'obélisque planté en plein coeur de la Piazza San Pietro constitue un de ses seuls vestiges. Dans ce cirque eut lieu le martyre de nombreux chretiens à l'époque de Néron.<br />
St Pierre fut enterré au nord de ce cirque puis l'empereur Constantin fit édifier une basilique grandiose sur le cirque. Cette edifice fut remplacé par l'actuelle basilique au cours des XVIe et XVIIe siècles.
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • The George Gustav Heye Center is a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, USA.<br />
The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The center features contemporary and historical exhibits of art and artifacts by and about Native Americans.<br />
The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903 and opened the Museum of the American Indian on Audubon Terrace in upper Manhattan in 1922. That museum closed in 1994 and part of the collection is now housed at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green in lower Manhattan. The Beaux Arts-style building, designed by architect Cass Gilbert, was completed in 1907. It is a designated National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark. The center's exhibition and public access areas total about 20,000 square feet (2,000 m²). The Heye Center offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs and living culture presentations throughout the year.
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  • New-York City. Empire State Building.
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • New-York City, Times Square
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Gapstow Bridge.<br />
Curving gracefully over the narrow neck of the Pond at 59th Street, Gapstow is one of the iconic bridges of Central Park. Design aficionados might notice a striking resemblance to the Ponte di San Francesco in San Remo, Italy.<br />
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The bridge offers postcard views of the surrounding cityscape. Facing south, you can see the famed Plaza Hotel and distinctive New York skyscrapers rising from above the Park's trees. Look southward in the winter and you'll see Wollman Rink's twirling skaters; in the warmer months you'll see the colorful amusements of Victorian Gardens.<br />
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Originally designed by Jacob Wrey Mould in 1874, the then-wooden bridge with cast-iron railings suffered great  wear over 20 years. It was replaced with the current stone structure in 1896, designed by Howard & Caudwell. Built of Manhattan schist, Gapstow stand 12 feet high, spans 44 feet of water, and stretches 76 feet in its full length. <br />
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Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • New-York City, Empire State Building.
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  • Cabs in New-York City.
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  • Basilique St Pierre. <br />
Cité du Vatican. Située sur ce que l'on appelait dans l'antiquité l'ager Vaticanus, aux bords du Tibre, et à quelque distance des Monts Vaticani, elle se dresse sur les anciens« jardins impériaux » qui furent propriété d'Agrippine.<br />
Son fils, l'empereur Caligula , y fit construire un cirque privé, le Circus Vaticanus, dont l'obélisque planté en plein coeur de la Piazza San Pietro constitue un de ses seuls vestiges. Dans ce cirque eut lieu le martyre de nombreux chretiens à l'époque de Néron.<br />
St Pierre fut enterré au nord de ce cirque puis l'empereur Constantin fit édifier une basilique grandiose sur le cirque. Cette edifice fut remplacé par l'actuelle basilique au cours des XVIe et XVIIe siècles.
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  • Rome Antique: la colonne Trajane. Erigée par Trajan en vers 116, pour immortaliser ses campagnes contre les Daces entre 101 et 107.<br />
Colonna Traiana
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  • Piazza Venezia - La Piazza Venezia est une place du centre de Rome dominée par le monument dédié à Victor-Emmanuel II.<br />
D'un blanc immaculé, cet édifice impressionnant s'inspire de l'Autel de Pergame.<br />
Il a été bâti entre 1895 et 1911 pour célébrer les 50 ans de l'Unité Italienne en l'honneur du 1er roi de l'Italie unifiée. La conception du bâtiment a été réalisée par G. Sacconi.
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  • Piazza Venezia - La Piazza Venezia est une place du centre de Rome dominée par le monument dédié à Victor-Emmanuel II.<br />
D'un blanc immaculé, cet édifice impressionnant s'inspire de l'Autel de Pergame.<br />
Il a été bâti entre 1895 et 1911 pour célébrer les 50 ans de l'Unité Italienne en l'honneur du 1er roi de l'Italie unifiée. La conception du bâtiment a été réalisée par G. Sacconi.
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  • Statues du Ponte Vittorio Emmanuele II.
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  • Basilique St Pierre. <br />
Cité du Vatican. Située sur ce que l'on appelait dans l'antiquité l'ager Vaticanus, aux bords du Tibre, et à quelque distance des Monts Vaticani, elle se dresse sur les anciens« jardins impériaux » qui furent propriété d'Agrippine.<br />
Son fils, l'empereur Caligula , y fit construire un cirque privé, le Circus Vaticanus, dont l'obélisque planté en plein coeur de la Piazza San Pietro constitue un de ses seuls vestiges. Dans ce cirque eut lieu le martyre de nombreux chretiens à l'époque de Néron.<br />
St Pierre fut enterré au nord de ce cirque puis l'empereur Constantin fit édifier une basilique grandiose sur le cirque. Cette edifice fut remplacé par l'actuelle basilique au cours des XVIe et XVIIe siècles.
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  • New-York City: Rockefeller Plaza.
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  • New-York City, Central Park.
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  • New-York City, MoMA
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Bethesda Fountain.<br />
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Rising from Bethesda Terrace is Angel of the Waters, also called Bethesda Fountain. The statue references the Gospel of John, which describes an angel blessing the Pool of Bethesda and giving it healing powers. The fountain commemorates the Croton water system, which first brought fresh water to New York City in 1842. The angel carries a lily in her left hand -- a symbol of the water's purity, very important to a city that had previously suffered from a devastating cholera epidemic before the system was established. The piece is the only statue that was commissioned for the Park. Created by Emma Stebbins, it also marked the first time a woman received a public art commission in New York City.<br />
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Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • New-York City, Tumes Square by Night
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  • New-York City, Chinatown.
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  • New-York City, Central Park.<br />
Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.<br />
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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $37.4 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff.
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  • Vendeur. Alentours de la Piazza Navona, Rome - Italie.
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  • Ruelle pres de la Piazza Navona.
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  • Piazza Venezia - La Piazza Venezia est une place du centre de Rome dominée par le monument dédié à Victor-Emmanuel II.<br />
D'un blanc immaculé, cet édifice impressionnant s'inspire de l'Autel de Pergame.<br />
Il a été bâti entre 1895 et 1911 pour célébrer les 50 ans de l'Unité Italienne en l'honneur du 1er roi de l'Italie unifiée. La conception du bâtiment a été réalisée par G. Sacconi.
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  • Tour a tour monument funéraire (il y contient les cendres d'Hadrien et les restes de Caracalla) puis en fortin militaire a l'arrivée de Vitigés, ce château tiendrait son nom d'une légende venant de l'époque de la Grande Peste (590). Grégoire 1er aurait eu une apparition de l'archange Michel au sommet du château et rangeant son épée dans son fourreau, signifiant par le fait la fin de l'épidémie. Il est ensuite transformé en prison, où quatre des papes du IXe siècle trouvent la mort.<br />
C'est désormais un musée.
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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..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..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..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 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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  • This museum is named after Pope Pius VII (whose last name was Chiaramonti before his election as pope), who founded it in the early 19th century. The museum consists of a large arched gallery in which sides are exhibited several statues, sarcophaguses and friezes. The New Wing, Braccio Nuovo built by Raphael Stern, houses important statues like The Prima Porta Augustus, Doryphorus, and The River Nile. Galeria Lapidaria is another part of Chiaramonti museum, with more than 3,000 stone tablets and inscriptions, which is the world's greatest collection of its kind.
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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..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..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 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..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..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..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..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..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..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 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 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..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 Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, near Piazza Venezia.
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  • ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012. The Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius is dedicated to the founder of the Jesuit order. .The Collegio Romano opened very humbly in 1551, with an inscription over the door summing up its simple purpose: "School of Grammar, Humanity, and Christian Doctrine. Free". .The church has a Latin cross plan with numerous side chapels. The building was inspired by the Jesuit mother church, the Church of the Gesù. The imposing order of Corinthian pilasters that rings the entire interior, the theatrical focus on the high altar at the rear of the broad eastern apse, the church's colored marbles, animated stucco figural relief, richly ornamented altars, extensive gilding, and bold Tromp l'oeil paintings in the "dome" at its crossing and in the nave ceiling all produce a festive, sumptuous effect. The church stages the triumph of its dedicatee most effectively.
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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 .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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