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![Arco di Settimio Severo Arco di Settimio Severo](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Arco%20di%20Settimio%20Severo_copertina.jpg?itok=JErinhYG)
To the emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Parthicus Arabicus Parthicus Adiabenicus, son of Marcus, father of his country, Pontifex Maximus, in the eleventh year of h
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The Imperial Fora are a monumental architectural complex, formed by a series of buildings and monumental squares, the centre of the political activity of ancient Rome, built in a p
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In the Rione Ludovisi, on the corner between Via Leonida Bissolati, Via Sallustiana and Via Friu
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Rome is the city with the most obelisks in the world. Obelisks of Egyptian manufacture arrived in Rome from the time of Augustus when Egypt was under Roman control.
![Musei Vaticani Musei Vaticani](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Musei%20Vaticani_1920x1080_0.jpg?itok=MkJndesH)
As a collection of ancient sculptures, the first group was begun by Julius II (1503-13) but it was Clement XIII (1758-69) who had the Secular Museum created with the assistance of
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Probably the most famous monument in the world and a symbol of the greatness of Rome, the Flavian Amphitheater, better known as the Colosseum for the colossal bron
[...]![MAXXI veduta esterna Foto: Musacchio Ianniello & Pasqualini Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI MAXXI veduta esterna Foto: Musacchio Ianniello & Pasqualini Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Maxxi_1920x1080.jpg?itok=Wrd0HjEI)
The idea of endowing Rome with a national museum dedicated to contemporary arts took shape in 1997 when the then Ministry of Cultural Heritage obtained fr
[...]![La lupa dei Musei Capitolini La lupa dei Musei Capitolini](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Lupa.jpg?itok=wGyQHZdE)
The birth of Musei Capitolini dates from 1471, when Pope Sisto IV gave the roman people a set of bronze statues, forming the first set of the collection kept in th
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The Ara Pacis is one of the greatest of all artistic works of the Ancients.
![Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/castelsantangelo.jpg?itok=puMWekXR)
![Pantheon Pantheon](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Pantheon.jpg?itok=hY_y84IL)
“The most beautiful relic of ancient Rome, a temple so well preserved that it appears as the Romans must have seen it in their times,” so described it the French writer Stendhal in the 19th century
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The Regional Park of the Appian Way offers you an unforgettable experience in a setting full of charm, where nature and archaeological monuments melt in harmony, elements that have
[...]![Studi di Cinecittà EntrataStorica@AndreaMartella Studi di Cinecittà EntrataStorica@AndreaMartella](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Studi%20di%20Cinecitt%C3%A0.jpg?itok=5ShZ_uxW)
A walk through the history of Cinema
![Via Margutta Via Margutta](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Scorcio%20di%20Via%20Margutta.jpg?itok=ElJfQ5wO)
"Noble simplicity and quiet grandeur": this is how the great art historian Johann Joachim Winkelmann (1717-1768) described this small street in the center of Rome.
![Galleria Borghese Galleria Borghese](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Galleria%20Borghese_630x473_0.jpg?itok=MV3D7R0e)
![Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Museo%20di%20Roma%20-%20Palazzo%20Braschi.jpg?itok=wG6qqNO6)
A trip inside the museums between Piazza Navona and its surroundings
![Musei Capitolini Musei Capitolini](https://turismoroma.it/sites/default/files/styles/pagina_snodo/public/Musei%20Capitolini_1.jpg?itok=jfkAfGTL)
Located at the foot of the Capitoline Hill,
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