The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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

Built in all probability during the mid-sixth century BC, the Servian Walls take their name from the sixth king of Rome, Servius Tullius.



Between the Rupe di San Paolo and the bend of the Tiber was a vast burial groun
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The monumental two-storey nymphaeum overlooking Via Appia Antica, was the real entrance to the Quintili villa : from here, in fact, through a door
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In 1962, during the construction of the buildings of the current archive of the Vicariate, on the corner between via dei Laterani and via Amba Aradam, at a
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A nymphaeum (monumental fountain) dated back to the end of the first century BC and the beginning of the first century AD was discovered in 1895 during the works for the realization of Via degli An
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This obelisk, brought from the Aswan excavation sites without inscriptions by order of Domitian, was decorated in Rome with original inscriptions written in hieroglyphics
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A few steps away from the terrace of the Pincio, one of the most evocative
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L’Obelisco della Minerva: la storia curiosa di un elefante di pietra al centro dell’incantevole piazza della Minerva.

This obelisk and its twin, now in the Boboli Gardens in Florence, have a similar history to the twin obelisks in Piazza della Rotonda and Villa Celimontana.




Together with the one visible today in the Villa Celimontana, it was originally erected in Heliopolis by Ramses II.

A twin of the one in Piazza della Rotonda, it is the only one in Rome not to be located in a public square.

Similar to the Esquiline Obelisk - made of granite, about 15 metres high and without inscription
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Located in front of the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti, right
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The building is located along Via Porta San Sebastiano inside a private property, the Pallavicini vineyard, and was discovered by Mariano Armellini in the second half of the 19th century.

In a corner of Trastevere, a few steps from the famous Basilica of Santa Cecilia
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