The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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Opposite the Accademia di Francia in Villa Medici, near one of the numerous fascinatin
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In the Rione Ludovisi, on the corner between Via Leonida Bissolati, Via Sallustiana and Via Friu
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The fountain leans against the left wall of the Underground (Metropolitana) Station in the middle of three large arches on the wall supporting the Velia Hill.

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 sarcophagus fountain, located in the recess next to a Torlonia building in via Corsini, dates back to the late 19th century.

The fountain is placed outside the rear facade of Palazzo Altieri and consists of a sarcophagus of the Roman age.


These twin fountains are similar to the works by Pietro Lombardi. They consist of three small ponds flanked by a pair of small pillars.



The fountain of the Leone (Lion) was originally situated in Via di Panico (street number 62) and was moved 60 years ago against the facade of the convent annexed to the church of San Salvatore in L
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The fountain leans against the wall of a building and rests on two semicircular steps paved with small porphyry blocks (sampietrini) and is decorated with a rectangular granite frame that encloses
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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
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This small district fountain by P. Lombardi (1927) is placed in the surroundings of the Arch of Gallienus, the ancient Porta Esquilina in the Servian Walls.

The fountain was designed by Marcelliano Mariano Ginesi and built in 1930. It consists of two pilasters resting on a base that frame the central composition.

This ancient trough was built by Carlo Bizzaccheri in 1717 under pope Clemente the Eleventh Albani (1700-1721).

Designed and built to mark the terminus of the Trajan Aqueduct, between 1610 and 1614, by architects Giovanni Fontana (1540-1614) and Flaminio Ponzio
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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
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This Forum was built by Domitian (81-96 AD), but inaugurated after his death by his successor Nerva in 97 AD.

The Forum Olitorium was the zone reserved to the vegetable and legume market.

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
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