The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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The Mausoleum of Lucilio Peto (dated to the late first century) was discovered in 1887, about 6 meters below the present ground level, during the work on the positioning of the former Vigna Bertone
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It is one of those monuments of ancient Rome whose imposing remains still amaze us today.

The Mausoleum of Sant’Urbano is located on a side street that departs from the via Appia Antica at th
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The Mausoleum stands along the ancient via Flaminia, near the current Viale Tor di Quinto and can be dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries.

The Mausoleum known as "La Celsa" stands atop the Saxa Rubra cliff, along the via Flaminia.

Between the spring and summer of 1849, the French troops sent by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (the future Napoleon III) laid siege to the city in order to restore papal temporal power
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In front of the Arch of Constantine, the remains of an ancient fountain are still visible.

A hidden jewel in the historic center of Rome, a fascinating and mysterious little monument with a suggestive atmosphere: the so-called Barberini Mithraeum was discovered by chance in 1936 in the b
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The mithraeum was discovered during the 1930s, when works were carried out to create a storage facility for the sets of the National Opera Theatre at the former Pantanella pasta factory.


The Mithraeum was discovered by chance in 1934 under the Church of Santa Prisca by the Au
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Located in Testaccio district and popularly known as Monte dei Cocci, Monte Testaccio is an artificial hill in ancient Rome's port area, near the horrea (warehouses).
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Places and sites of historical, cultural and artistic interest, the monuments of the territory of Rome include historic buildings
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Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian antifascist politician, MP and secretary of the Socialist Unity Party since 1922.

La statua equestre in bronzo dell’eroe nazionale albanese Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg (1403-1468) è collocata al di sopra di un piedistallo a pianta semiovale, a sua volta posto sopra un basamento
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Il monumento dedicato a papa Giovanni Paolo II (Karol Jòzef Wojtyla, Wadowice, 18 maggio 1920 - Città del Vaticano, 2 aprile 2005) è stato commissionato allo scultore abruzzese Oliviero Rai
[...]For more than a hundred years, Giuseppe Garibaldi has good-naturedly watched over Rome atop the Janiculum Hill<
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“Nun fuss’antro pe ttante antichità
bisognerebbe nassce tutti cquì,
perché a la robba che cciavemo cquà
c’è, sor friccica mio, poco da dí”

L’esecuzione del monumento celebrativo dedicato a Marco Minghetti (Bologna 1818 - Roma 1886), più volte Primo Ministro dell’Italia unificata, venne deliberata dal Parlamento subito dopo la morte de
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L’opera è composta da un alto basamento in granito, poggiante su due gradini e digradante verso l’alto, diviso in quattro registri da cornici marcapiano.


The monument, dedicated to one of the most famous Roman poets, stands in the square n
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The bronze statue depicts the severe figure of Alfredo Oriani (Faenza 1852 - Casola Valsenio 1909), a man of letters and historiographer active from the 1870s until 1909, the autho
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The idea of erecting a monument on the Janiculum Hill dedicated to Anita Garibaldi dates back to 19
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Il monumento ai Caduti della Montagnola, posizionato il 24 marzo 1966, commemora un evento della Resistenza romana, la battaglia del 10 settembre 1943, in cui persero la vita più di cinquanta perso
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Il 16 marzo 1978 le Brigate Rosse rapirono lo statista democristiano Aldo Moro in Via Mario Fani e ne uccisero la scorta.

The Aurelian Walls still surround the historic centre of Rome and are among the longest and best preserved ancient walls in the world.

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