The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)


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
[...]A fascinating underground itinerary in the Rome of the imperial age, the real nerve centre of the cultural and political life of the Eternal City.
The Drugstore Museum and the Necropoli Portuense Circuit are divided into a territorial route in the historical outskirts of the Western q
[...]The Excubitorium of the VII Cohort of the Vigiles is located in the Trastevere
[...]In the Pinciano district, at the corner of Via Flaminia and Via di Villa Giulia, right
[...]The work consists of an oval granite pond and amask with valve that originally were parts of the trough placed in front of Julius the Third’s fountain.
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 of the Lions replaced a sixteenth century fountain by Giacomo Della Porta moved to Piazza Nicosia in 1950.
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
[...]In early 18th-century Rome, the ancient area of the Forum Boarium was still sparsely populated.
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 leaning against the
[...]The River Fountain which dates back to the 17th century, is located inside Villa Celimontana, on the Celio hill.