The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)


For more than a hundred years, Giuseppe Garibaldi has good-naturedly watched over Rome atop the Janiculum Hill<
[...]“Nun fuss’antro pe ttante antichità
bisognerebbe nassce tutti cquì,
perché a la robba che cciavemo cquà
c’è, sor friccica mio, poco da dí”
The monument, dedicated to one of the most famous Roman poets, stands in the square n
[...]La statua bronzea raffigura la severa figura di Alfredo Oriani (Faenza 1852 – Casola Valsenio 1909), letterato e storiografo attivo dagli anni Settanta dell’Ottocento fino al 1909,
[...]The Aurelian Walls still surround the historic centre of Rome and are among the longest and best preserved ancient walls in the world.
Built in all probability during the mid-sixth century BC, the Servian Walls take their name from the sixth king of Rome, Servius Tullius.
The Necropolis develops along the two sides of via Laurentina and a road connecting Ostia to the Pianabella area; later the tombs also occupied th
[...]The necropolis, identified and excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, stands on the sides of via Flavia, which connected Porto (Portus) with Os
[...]Between the Rupe di San Paolo and the bend of the Tiber was a vast burial groun
[...]The monumental two-storey nymphaeum overlooking Via Appia Antica, was the real entrance to the Quintili villa : from here, in fact, through a door
[...]In 1962, during the construction of the buildings of the current archive of the Vicariate, on the corner between via dei Laterani and via Amba Aradam, at a
[...]A nymphaeum (monumental fountain) dated back to the end of the first century BC and the beginning of the first century AD was discovered in 1895 during the works for the realization of Via degli An
[...]This obelisk, brought from the Aswan excavation sites without inscriptions by order of Domitian, was decorated in Rome with original inscriptions written in hieroglyphics
[...]A few steps away from the terrace of the Pincio, one of the most evocative
[...]L’Obelisco della Minerva: la storia curiosa di un elefante di pietra al centro dell’incantevole piazza della Minerva.