The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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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
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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.
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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
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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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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 Domus Tiberiana is the first true imperial palace, built on the northwestern slope of the Palatine Hill in the 1st century AD
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The Drugstore Museum and the Necropoli Portuense Circuit are divided into a territorial route in the historical outskirts of the Western q
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Built in the 18th century near the ancient port of Ripa Grande at the behest of Pope Clement XI (1649-1721), the complex of the new papal arsenal
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The Excubitorium of the VII Cohort of the Vigiles is located in the Trastevere
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In the Pinciano district, at the corner of Via Flaminia and Via di Villa Giulia, right
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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 foun
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The fountain, designed by architect Emanuele Cito Filomarino, is one of the winning designs of a 1928 competition announced among Italian artists
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This fountain is placed in the courtyard in front of the church of Santa Cecilia.


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
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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,
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The fountain consists of a granite pond with two side masks that rests on a support placed in the middle of a larger oval marble pond.

The current fountain of the Lions replaced a sixteenth century fountain by Giacomo Della Porta moved to Piazza Nicosia in 1950.


The Fontana dei Putti or del Biscione was commissioned in the early twentieth century by George Wurts and his wife Henrietta Tower, owners of the former Barberini Sciarra villa from 1902.

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
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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-
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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
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The fountain was built in 1830 by the architect Luigi Canina with the main function of creating a backdrop to the monumental entrance on P
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The River Fountain which dates back to the 17th century, is located inside Villa Celimontana, on the Celio hill.

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