The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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A sober, typically late Mannerist style characterizes the imposing and severe palace in the center of the Ri
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The palace dates back to the early seventeenth century and belonged to the Maccarani family; in the second half of the 17th century it was purchased by the Odescalchi Princes, who still own it, and
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The land on which Palazzo Madama was built was ceded in 1478 by the monks of the Imperial Abbey of Farfa to France, looking for a place to host French pilgrims in Rome.


The Palace, designed by architect Giulio Magni, Valadier's nephew, was started in 1912, and was inaugurated on 28 October 1928.

The Palace is located along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in the city centre, and is the masterpiece of the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi who built it where the fifte
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The 17-century Palazzo Nuovo stands opposite the identical Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the splendid Piazza del Campidoglio, designed around the mid-16th century b
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The palace is composed of different buildings taking up an entire artificial hill, which was perhaps formed on the stone materials coming from a nearby Tiber river port and which w
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To unify the different pre-existing properties on Piazza Pasquino in a single building, Girolamo Rinaldi (1570- 1655), built a palace on the orders of Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, w
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Built at the beginning of the sixteenth century for the noble Calcagni family, it then passed to the Del Bene family, who were probably responsible for the painted façade on the Piazza Ricci side,
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The palace was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the Jacobilli family who, having exhausted their resources even before having finished it, sold the palace, in 1583, to
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Facing the Tiber, in Via della Lungara, stands this historic Renaissance palace, begun
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Aimed at combating usury and granting pawn credit with low interest rates, the Monte di Pietà institutional pawnbroker arrived later in Rome as compared to other cities in central
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Built at the behest of Cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro (1502-1559), the construction of Palazzo Spada started at the end of 1548, by the architect Bartolomeo Baronino
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The dignified palace that today faces Via della Conciliazione was built in the early 16th century for the rich cardinal Adriano Castellesi da Corneto, who never li
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The palace, now the seat of the metropolitan city of Roma Capitale, was built in 1583-85 by Cardinal Bonelli on the area of the forum of Trajan, d
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Currently the seat of the INPS, is Known for being the historical headquarters of the newspaper Il Tempo.

Located at the crossroads of via Sistina and via Gregoriana, close to the Spanish Steps, Palazzo Zuc
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“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 Tuscolo Archaeological Cultural Park extends between the municipalities of Montecompatri, Monte Porzio, Frascati and Grottaferrata and represents the historical and cul
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The park occupies the northwestern sector of the Caelian hill, in a green area overlooking the
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The Colosseum Archaeological Park includes the extraordinary ancient complexes forming part of the central archaeological area, namely Colosseum, Roman For
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