The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)


Il nome originario era Porta Flaminia perché da qui usciva, ed esce tuttora, la via consolare Flaminia
The Nero aqueduct, also known as the "Celimontano Aqueduct", winds its arches along a path that from Piazza di Porta Maggiore passes through via Statilia reaching the Celio
[...]The Felice aqueduct owes its name to Pope Sixtus V - Felice Peretti - who built it in the 16th century and runs along a path that, from Via Prenestina, arrives at
[...]Besides the archeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, the Aurelian Walls arrive to and include the ruins of the Amphitheater Castrense, one of the most important an
[...]Among the most interesting monuments in the area are the Portico d'Ottavia, the Church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, so called because it was created inside the anc
[...]The road, skirting the maritime side and being behind the war front, was faster and safer than the Via Latina and soon took on a military and strategic function.
[...]Despite its name, the Arcus Argentariorum is a architraved gate erected in 204 AD on the ancient urban road of the vicus Jugarium, where the street entered the For
[...]The Arch of Constantine is the largest of the three triumphal arches still preserved in Rome, about 25 meters high, located along the road usually used by the triumphs, in the stre
[...]The arch of Dolabella is a door of the Servian Walls, rebuilt by Augustus and identifiable with the Porta Caelimontana.
Nestled up against the church of Santi Vito e Modesto, the arch marks the exact spot w
[...]The imposing monuments stand at the crossroads between the Imperial Forums and the Boarium Forum, in an area that for centuries was a trade node for products arriving from all over the Mediterranea
[...]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
[...]The archaeological area of the Tomb of the Scipios is located along the urban stretch of the ancient Via Appia, within the Aurelian Walls, before the city gate, Porta S. Sebastiano.
Not far from Trevi Fountain, in Vicolo del Puttarello, there is the Vicus Caprarius archaeological site, also called “Città dell’Acqua”
[...]The archaeological area of Settecamini, discovered in the 1950s, is located halfway between Rome and Tivoli, at the intersection of the eighth mile of via Tiburtina
[...]The Stadium of Domitian Archaeological Area, now Piazza Navona in Rome, “the earliest example of a masonry athletics stadium built in Rome, a unique element in the hist
[...]Opening out before one of Rome’s most important and oldest theatres, Teatro Argentina, and located in the middle of a rather busy road junction, is an archaeological site which was discovered as re
[...]Strolling around the Foro Olitorio (opposite the contemporary Palazzo dell'Anagrafe), you can admire, also from the outside, the archaeological area known as the Sacred Are
[...]If you happen to be going down Via Merulana from the Basilica of St.
The basilica stands along via Portuense and was built at the behest of Pope Damasus - in the 4th century AD - within the catacombs of Generosa where the martyrs
Those of you who have already visited the Capitoline Museums will certainly have admired the fragment of the colossal statue of Emperor Constantine.
This Basilica was built in 324, at the behest of Constance daughter of the emperor Constantine, above the ruins of a cemetery and catacombs that housed the remains of the Saint.
The basilica is located inside the Celio Military Hospital and dates back to the mid-2nd century AD.
The building was accidentally found in 1917 under the Rome-Naples railway. There are various hypotheses on its use.
The Basilica Ulpia, built by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the behest of the Emperor Trajan between 106 and 113 AD, is located near the
[...]The Mouth of Truth is the ancient mask, probably an ancient sewer cover, with a diameter of 1.80 meters, walled in the wall of the pronaos of Santa Maria i
[...]Sapori e antiche tradizioni in un luogo dove il tempo sembra essersi fermato
Perched on a volcanic cliff, a few kilometers north of Rome, lies this delightful village.