The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)
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It is one of the largest water tanks from antiquity and since the Middle Ages this monumental complex gained the name Sette Sale (Seven Halls), although in reality
[...]The monument was discovered around the 1940s, under a farmhouse that was demolished during the excavations carried out to build the via Imperiale, now via Cristoforo Colombo.
The so-called Roman Cistern or Nymphaeum, located in the Caffarella Park near via Latina, has recently reopened to the public aft
[...]Inaugurated in 1935 in the presence of King Victor Emmanuel III, the construction of the Città Universitaria (University City) had begun only three years earlier, when the project
[...]The two sepulchres are spread over an area crossed by the via Latina and via Labicana, an agricultural area characterized by the presence of the Claudian aqueduct.
The Colombariums are located inside the Codini Vineyard, between the Scipioni Park and the Aurelian Walls, near Porta San Sebastiano, in an area o
[...]The term columbarium refers to a burial chamber which walls are covered with rows of niches in which cinerary urns, small clay pots containing the ashes of the dec
[...]Along the sides of the via Prenestina, as was the case for the main road axes in Roman times, there were vast sepulchral areas formed largely by columbaria
[...]In front of the splendid Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, in the centre of the square of the same name
[...]The Column that stands in the center of the square having the same name was erected between the year of the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD, and 193 AD.
Erected in 113 A.D. to celebrate the deeds of emperor Trajan in Dacia, the Trajan's Column was the first triumphal one - with decorations that spiral along the shaft - ever raised.
[...]At the time of Augustus the whole area around the church was a residential quarter, with large villae and domus of the wealthiest families of the time.
Located on the slopes of Monte Mario, the complex was conceived at the end of the 1920s by Renato Ricci, then president of the ONB - Opera Nazionale Balilla.
Grazie a una fortunata campagna di scavo iniziata nel 1970, nella zona adiacente al campanile romanico di Sant’Ippolito, è stata riportata alla luce una basilica cristiana
[...]The Capo di Bove archaeological complex is located on the fourth mile of the Via Appia Antica, not far from the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella.
The origins of the Complex date back to 727 AD, when the king of the Saxons INA established the "Schola Saxonum" to give hospitality to the pilgrims headed to the Tomb of the Apostle Peter.
Owned by the municipality of Rome, this simple and enchanting small building on the slopes of the Caelian is a
The town of Crustumerium stood between Eretum, today's Monterotondo, and Fidenae and was located on a plain overlooking the Tiber valley and the ancient
[...]The theatre was built by L. Cornelius Balbus the Younger in the year 13 AD, behind the Portico d’Ottavia in the heart of the current Jewish quarter.
The La Polledrara deposit is located about 20 km north-west of Rome, between the via Aurelia and Boccea and constitutes one of the richest paleontological deposits in exist
[...]After the fire of 64 AD, which destroyed much of the center of Rome, Emperor Nero began the construction of a new residence, that for its splendor went down in history with the name of Domus Aurea.
[...]In 1959, during the works for the construction of the new INPS headquarters, came to light the remains of an archaeological complex, the structures of which have been traced back
[...]The so-called Domus Parthorum, or House of the Parthians, is an ancient monumental complex, not yet fully investigated, located inside the current "Nando
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