The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)


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.
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.
More than 300 meters long and covering an area of over 25 thousand square meters, the monumental complex overlooking the Tiber, near Porta Portese, was built in successive phases
[...]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.
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 imposing and severe brick building on the edge of the Roman Forum owes its name to the assemblies of the “curiates”, the citizens selected on the basis of the
[...]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
[...]Located in the Trevi district, the basilica of Santa Susanna stands on the remains of the Roman domus owned by the martyr from which it takes its name.
A fascinating underground journey through the Rome of the imperial age, a veritable nerve centre of the cultural and political life of the city.
The Domus Transitoria, the first royal palace of Nero on the Palatine Hill, due to its value and the wealth of materials used, occupies a place of primary importan
[...]The Emporium, that is the ancient river port of Testaccio, rises along the left bank of the Tiber, partially hidden from view by the rive
[...]Named after the close-by 17th-century College of Neophytes or Catechumens, the fountain that adorns Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, today the central meeting point in the Monti dis
[...]The fountain is placed in the center of a small square near a junction of four tree-lined paths and was built between 1790 and 1791 to replace the previous fountain of the Mascherone or della Vela,
[...]The current fountain replaced a sixteenth century fountain by Giacomo della Porta moved to Piazza Nicosia in 1950.
Located on Via degli Staderari, between the Pantheon and Piazza Navona, the Fountain of the Books was built in 1927.
Commissioned by Pope Innocent X Pamphilj (1644-1655) to adorn the square that would have magnified the grandeur of his pontificate – with the monumental family palace and the nearb
[...]The fountain, which dates back to the early eighteenth century and is supplied by a branch of the Acqua Felice, stands near the temple of Ercole Vincitore, on the
[...]The fountain of the Babuino (Baboon), so renamed by the Roman people because of its ugliness recalling the figure of a monkey in the statue above the basin, was originally a "semi-
[...]A male figure with a badly-damaged face holds a barrel in his hands, out of which flows a stream of water creating a little fountain: it is the so-called Fountain of the Porter which was originally
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