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The most famous of the Roman fountains: a jewel of water and stone
This fountain was originally placed in a wash-house facing the basilica di San Clemente. It was designed in 1864 by Virgilio Vespignani under pope Pious the Ninth Mastai Ferretti (1846-1878).
The fountain, formed by a large basin in Egyptian granite from Assuan, rests on a Carrara marble base in the centre of a large peperino basin.
Opposite the Accademia di Francia in Villa Medici, near one of the numerous fascinatin
[...]In the Rione Ludovisi, on the corner between Via Leonida Bissolati, Via Sallustiana and Via Friu
[...]When Prince Don Marino Torlonia bought the current Nuñez-Torlonia palace, built in 1660 by Giovanni Antonio De Rossi for the Marquis Francesco Nuñez-Sanchez, he restored it and added a fountain
The small marble sow that gives the street its name, perhaps the fragment of an ancient bas-relief, is documented since 1445 as applied to the wall of the former convent of Sant’Agostino
[...]Designed and built to mark the terminus of the Trajan Aqueduct, between 1610 and 1614, by architects Giovanni Fontana (1540-1614) and Flaminio Ponzio
[...]The Fountain of Anna Perenna was found in 1999 while conducting excavations for an underground car park at the corner of piazza Euclide and via G.
The Forum Boarium was the space given over to the cattle market and was situated between the Tiber
[...]This Forum was built by Domitian (81-96 AD), but inaugurated after his death by his successor Nerva in 97 AD.
Formerly a swampy area, only from the end of the seventh century BC with the reclamation of the valley, the Roman Forum slowly began to become the centre of public life for over a
[...]A period of urban transformation and modernization began after the proclamation of Rome as the Capital of Italy.
A colossal iron structure that is almost 90 meters in height and with a diameter of 63 meters, nicknamed for its monumentality the “Industrial Colosseum” or “Moder
[...]During the recent works on the Metro Line C, the remains of a monumental two-storey public building of the Emperor Hadrian’s times (117-138 AD), were found in Piazza Madonna di Lor
[...]In the Rome of the Popes, starting from the sixteenth century, dissent towards the constituted power and the ruling classes began to manifest itself with the posting of signs with anonymous satiric
[...]Flavours and ancient traditions in a place where time seems to have stopped
The area where the Village of Ostia Antica stands was occupied by necropolis in the imperial age. In the 5th century, a basilica was built on Saint Aurea martyr's tomb site.
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