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Rómulo and Remus founded the one that ended up being
the capital of the biggest empire in Europe, Rome. To walk
through Rome is to go for a walk for the history of the art,
enjoying each one of the crucial moments of the history. It
cannot be denied their paper like cradle of the western civilization
but Rome is today, much more. Inside her it is the religious
biggest power that has existed never, Vatican, an independent
small state that it leaves marveled to all that that crosses
their door.
They exist three legends that talk about the foundation of
the mythical city, at least that that if it is certain it
is that their origin is emperantado with the etruscos, about
eight centuries to. C. Of that time they have been archaeological
remains as the tombs.
It is a city to enjoy slowly, appreciating each one of the
details and also, it must make walking. Museums, art galleries,
churches like San Pedro, squares, palaces, monuments, gardens,
etc. Unique city in the world that doesn't defraud the traveler,
because it has everything. When the rest, to enjoy the
Italian gastronomy, of an icy artisan or of a coffee they
transform into an entire experience.
Of the Roman time it is indispensable the visit to the Forums,
the Coliseum, Pantenón, etc. Not less interesting they
are the remains paleocristianos and medieval without forgetting
the impressive fever of construction of the Rebirth, continuous
during the Baroque. The neoclassical period also left its
sample. The XX century it has contributed with the big avenues
and the green wide spaces.
The tourist must go prepared with a good footwear because
to know this city well it is needed at least one week and
everything won't be seen, they are always fascinating corners
to discover. It is recommended to make a list with the places
that are high-priority and to make it for areas and not for
styles since everything is blended. It is important to remember
that practically all the museums, to exception of Vatican,
it closes on Mondays. Once only equipped subtraction to
begin the journey. iAdelante! Rome doesn't defraud none of
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Museo di las Catacombe di San Sebastiano
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Museo di San Giovanni in Laterano
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In this museum it stays patre of the treasure of
the Basilica. From the Cloister you consents to the
Room of Pious IX in the one that are conserved, among
other objects, three riquísimos tapestries, Pope's
pluvial layer Vonifacio VIII for the opening of the
First Sacred Year of 1300 and objects belonging to Pope
Tweet IX. In the Leonine Corridor liturgical beautiful
objects can be seen.
- Address: Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
- Phone: 698-863-33
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Museo di San Pancraziio
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This museum is located in the sacristy of the church
of San Pancracio. Here archaeological material of the
old basilica of the century V is exposed; a sarcophagus,
material epigráfico, tablets and sculptures.
- Address: Piazza di San Pancrazio (Basilica di San Pancrazio)
- Phone: 581-04-58
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Museo Francescano
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The main nucleus of the collection of this museum
owes to Brother Luis Antoine of Porrentruy who, with
the purpose of illustrating a biography of s. Francisco,
began to collect incisions, paintings, drawings, pictures,
stamps etc. In 1954, after being in Assisi, the collection
returned to Rome where it occupies the new and wide
locals. It offers a historical wide ilustracioón
of the franciscanismo, starting from the iconography
of S. Francisco, of other Santos and of the most important
and somehow bound characters to the order. The collection
understands numerous paintings, escultruras as well
as ceramic and porcelains, strange objects, currencies,
medals stamps drawings and engravings.
- Address: Circonv. Occidentale
- Phone: 661-519-49
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Museo e Pinacoteca della Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura
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This museum conserves objects of the old cemetery
ostiense. The cloister of the basilica XIII century
it houses the collection of funeral tablets, sarcophaguses,
inscriptions and other objects encontados in the old
cemetery. In the pinacoteca painting is exposed from
the XIII century to the XVIII one. In the cabinets the
forms of the old Basilica, funeral pagan tablets and
Christian of the cemetery ostiense can be seen, relative
tablets to historical events related with the Basilica
and forty two lockets of the Potatoes. To the museum
of the Monastery they can only consent the specialists.
- Address: Piazzale San Paolo
- Phone: 541-03-41
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Casa Keats-Shelley
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This museum was founded by the admirers of the poets
Keats and Shelley in 1903. It occupies the floor in
which lived and it died in 1821, the English poet,
John Keats. In the different rooms manuscripts are collected,
forms, drawings and different objects that not only
belonged to Keats but to Shelley, Lord Byron and J.
L Hunt. This Institution is also proud of a specialized,
very frequented important library and in constant amplification,
and of the publication of a bulletin and a magazine.
Transporte: Linea A, estación Spagna.
Entrada: 2,60 euros.
- Address: Piazza di Spagna
- Phone: 678-42-35
- Fax: 678-41-67
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Museo Teatrale del Burcardo
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The museum owes its name to the palace that is called
Bucardo by the papal teacher's of ceremonies name, Juan
Bruchkardt that built it at the end of the XV century.
The palace houses a big library, inaugurated in 1932
and the mueso that it occupies the ground floor and
the first floor. The first nucleus of the museum was
the collection of Luigi Rasi actor and director of the
School of recital of Florence.
- Address: Via del Sudario
- Phone: 654-07-55
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Monumental Group San Michele a Ripa
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This building, headquarters of the Ministry of Cultural
Goods houses, until the finalization of the works of
restoration of Galleria Borghese, more than five hundred
very important works among those that highlight paintings
of Caravaggio, Titian, Giorgione, Rubens, Canaletto,
GL. Bernini, Giudo Quarreled, Correggio and others.
- Address: Via di San Michele
- Phone: 581-67-32
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Galleria Spada
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The palace, built toward 1540, it is at the moment
headquarters of the Council of State. In the facade
and in the patio it highlights their rich decoration
of stuccos of G. Mazzoni. A part of the palace houses
the homonymous gallery with a collection of painting
of the XVI centuries - XVIII. They highlight works of
Titian, "Musician", I Quarreled "Portrait
of the cardinal B. Spada", Rubens "Portrait
of the cardinal", etc.
- Address: Piazza Capo di Ferro
- Phone: 686-11-58
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Galleria Colonna
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It is about one of the Roman richest collections.
It exhibits squares of the XV centuries to XVIII among
those that "Virgin highlights with the Boy ",
of Stefano she gives Zevio, "Venus, Love and satyr"
of Bronzino, gentleman's" of Veronés "Portrait,
"Narcissus in the source", of Tintoretto,
etc.
- Address: Via della Pilotta
- Phone: 679-43-62
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Museo Philatelic and Numismatist
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Museo Storico Vaticano
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Musei Vaticani
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Museo Gregoriano Egipcio (Musei del
Vaticano)
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Created in 1839 by XIV Gregorio. It understands
an important documentation of the civilization and the
art of old Egypt, with mummies and sarcophaguses, funeral
and commemorative trails, as well as statues of Roman
time inspired by the Egyptian art, among other.
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Museo Chiaramonti (Musei del Vaticano)
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It owes the name to Pious VII Chiaromonti, their
founder (1800-23). It is located in one of the two wings
projected by Twine, (the one that abuts with the Patio
of the Pineapple) and the corridors that cominican the
estate of Inocencio VIII with papal Palace. The museum
houses sculptural works of old blunt and grecia covering
a wide space storm that V goes from century to. C. until
the I follow III d. C.
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Museo Pio-Clementino (Musei del Vaticano)
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It keeps a great collection mainly of Greek and Roman
sculptures. They highlight "Juno Sospita",
the Wounded" "Amazon, the "Bust of Trajano",
Sleeping" "Ariadna, "Apollo of Belvedere",
"Hermes", Goddess's" "Statue, the
celebrated group of "Laoconte" and "Heros
of Centocelle", among other.
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Museo Gregoriano Etrusco (Musei del
Vaticano)
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It was created in the year 1837 by XVI Gregorio.
In their interior it is an interesting collection
coming from the excavations of Etruria southern and
recent donations, among those that are "Mars"
of Toldi, statue of the century V to.C., the "Tomb
Regolini-Galassi" of Cervéteri of the century
VII to.C., and a "Discóbolo", copies
of Onlooker's original. In this museum they cannot be
stopped to visit Galleria of the Chandeliers, with a
"Sarcophagus with Boy" of the century III
d.C. and the "Girl running", it works classicist
of the circle of Praxiteles of the century I to.C.,
among other; Galleria of the Tapestries, with a great
exhibition of textile that Christ's life and Galleria
of the Maps represent, with a squared extension of 120
meter, decorations with the maps of Italy work of Ignacio
Danti of the years 1580-1583.
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Antiquarium Romano (Musei del Vaticano)
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Divided in three small spaces, it shows old objects
and of smaller arts. An ivory doll highlights, (probably
of the century III d. C) covered with a dress of fabric
of gold, found in a sarcophagus near the Basilica of
S. Sebastian.
- Address: Piazza S. Maria Nova
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Collection of Glasses (Musei del Vaticano)
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Sala della Biga (Musei del Vaticano)
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This room takes its name of the "Chariot",
it works Roman of the century I d. C. , completed by
F. A. Franconi, exposed in the center. Also sample the
statue of Discóbolo, copies Roman of the century
I d. C, statue of Discóbolo throwing the disk,
it copies of the time of Adriano.
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Galleria dei Candelabri (Musei del
Vaticano)
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It owes their name to the time of Pious VI, when
according to a project of Simonetti and Camporese, they
closed it and they placed him/her chandeliers. It is
divided in six sections that they show statues, statuettes
and sarcophaguses of Antigua Rome (of the century II
to. C a century III).
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Galleria degli Arazzi (Musei del Vaticano)
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It receives the name of the tapestries that
are exposed in her from 1838. They highlight the eighteen
tapestries of the factory of Pieter Aelst they go, of
Brussels, carried out in XVI century on drawings of
Rafael's school.
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Galleria delle Mappe (Musei del Vaticano)
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Apartment di S. Pio V (Musei del Vaticano)
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Sala Sobieski (Musei del Vaticano)
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It owes their name to the square that occupies the
whole north wall. It represents the victory of Jan Sobieski,
king from Poland on the Turks. It was reallizado in
1883 for the Polish painter, Jan Marejko.
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Sala della Immacolata (Musei del Vaticano)
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Stays and Lodges of Rafael
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It is composed of four rooms whose decoration Pope
Julio II took charge to Rafael in 1508. They are considered
as one of the works teachers of all the times. They
can visit one another the Stay of the Fire of Borgo,
the Stay of the Signature, in which one can admire the
"Dispute of Sacramento "and the "School
of Athens and the Parnassus", Constantino's Stay
and the Stay of Heliodoro, with the "Liberation
of San Pedro of the Jail" and the "Miracle
of Bolsena and expelled Heliodoro of temple."
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Galleria di Rafael (Musei del Vaticano)
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Located in the second floor, with stucco decoration
and grutescos among the recuadros and in the walls,
work of Giovani gives Udine. The vault is decorated
with scenes of the Old one and of the New Testament,
all drawn by the same artist and carried out by Roman
Giulio, Perin of the Vagrant and F. Penni.
It is also distinguished, the Angelic, ornamented
Chapel of Brother everything her with fresh of Angelic
Brother of 1448 - 1450. In this Chapel they can also
visit one another different rooms as that of the Sibyls,
with prophets and the pupils' of Pinturicchio sibyls,
that of the Mysteries of the Faith, that of the Credo,
that of the Sciences and of the Liberal Arts, that of
Santos's Life and that of the Pontiffs, and other two
smaller rooms with fresh of Pinturicchio. It is necessary
to visit the Apartment Borgia that includes the two
stays of the tower Borgia.
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Collezione di Arte Religiosa Moderna
(Musei del Vaticano)
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It gathers hundreds of works of painting and sculpture
donated from all over the world to the Santa Headquarters
by the collectors or the same painters. Works of Chagall
can be seen, Gugin, Klee, Kandinsky, Rodin, Dali, Van
Gogh and other painters and modern sculptors.
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Capella Sistina (Musei del Vaticano)
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It is the emblem of Vatican and of Rome. This jewel
was built in the years 1475-1481, in the time of Sixto
IV. In her they take place the conclaves for the election
of the Potatoes, being also the private and official
Chapel of the Pontiffs. The balustrade that divides
it was decorated for I Mine it gives Fiesole, Dalmatian
Giovani and A. Bregno. In this wonderful stay different
works of different authors can be admired: In the right
wall of the altar, the "Temptations of Jesus"
of Botticeli, the "Delivery of the keys to San
Pedro" of Perugino, helped by Signorelli, the "Last
Dinner" of C. Rosselli and Jesus'" "Baptism
probably of Perugino and Pinturicchio, among other.
They also highlight the Figures of the Potatoes in the
niches between the windows work of Botticeli and Ghirlandajo,
among other artists and in the left wall of the altar,
the "Step of the Dead" Sea of C. Rosselli,
"Moses and the Daughters of Jetro" of Botticeli
and Moses'" "Death, among other.
However, the vault is, without a doubt, one of the
biggest attractiveness in the Chapel. It was decorated
by brilliant Miguel Angel with wonderful fresh, begun
in the year 1508 and finishes in 1512. The figures and
the scenes are framed in a colored beautiful and monumental
architectural work. In the center of the vault distributed
in nine rectangular recuadros Historys of Genesis they
are represented, while the wall of the Altar is covered
for the great cool air of the Universal Trial painted
by Miguel Angel in the years 1535-1541, during Pablo's
papacy III. In this brilliant work it covered with
robes the nakedness of some figures for order of Pious
IV. Some later retouches and the smoke of the candles
have darkened the painting, although in the last times
they have been carried out restorations returning to
the work their design and original color.
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Biblioteca Apostolica (Musei del Vaticano)
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Been founded by Pope Nicolo V (1447-55). The building
was taken charge to Domenico Fontana (1588). It salts
of the Addresses of Pious IX it conserved the letters
from all over the world of faithful that they have gone
to Pó IX. The Chapel of San Pious V highlights
for the cool airs of Zucchi carried out psobre drawings
of Vasari and that they illustrate the life of S. Pedro
martyr. Ptra Salts of Addresses it conserves certas
directed to XII León and I Tweet X. The cabinets
show, among other objects, liturgical platería
of the XVI and XVII centuries and "Díptico
of Rambona" of the century X.
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Pinacoteca Vaticana (Musei del Vaticano)
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Located from 1932 in the local construídos
for the architect Luca Beltrami, it possesses an imposante
pictorial collection. Here they only make an appointment
some works that can be admired in their rooms: "Triptych
Stefaneschi" of Giotto and their pupils, "Historys
of San Nicolás" of Gentile gives Fabriano,
"Historys of San Nicolás of Bari" and"
"Virgin, angels and saints" of Angelic Fra,
"Coronation of Maria" of Filippo Lippi,
"Redeemer blessing" of S. Martini and many
more.
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Museo Gregoriano Profano (Musei del
Vaticano)
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This museum houses the coleciones that before were
in Palace of Letrán, in the museums Gregorian
Layman, Pious Christian and Missionary. XVI Gregorio
founded it in 1844, but his current placement was made
in 1970. The works are exposed following the didactic
citerio. It shows collections of Greek originals, copies
and Roman reelaboraciones of Greek originals, Roman
sculptures of the republican time and of the imperial
time, as well as Roman sculptures of later times.
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Museo Pio Cristiano (Musei del Vaticano)
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Museo Missionario Etnologico (Musei
del Vaticano)
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From 1925 it gathers the material of the Missionary
Exhibition of the Jubilee of 1925 and the collection
of the Museum Borja. It was getting rich with particular
numerous donations and of the Catholic Missions of äfrica,
Asia, Polynesian and America. It is a very interesting
collection that musestra objects of many cults and religions
of the world.
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Pavilion of the Coaches (Musei del
Vaticano)
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Museo Barracco
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The collection of this museum was given to the city
by the Baron Giovanni Baracco, in 1902. Later the collection
you transfer to the building atribuído to Antonio
of Sangallo the Youth, call 'Piccola Farnesina.' In
their nine rooms, the museum houses from the Egyptian
pieces and etruscas until Greek Roman and the Christian
early time. They highlight the bas-relief ejipcio especially
with the official Nefer III dynasty, the head of a priest
in baslato, the efebo head and the head of Atenea, Greek
originals of the century V to. C. etc.
- Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele
- Phone: 688-068-48
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Museo di Arte Classica
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In 1892 Manuel Lowy creó the 'Archaeological
Cabinet' like didactic instrument of the Class of Classic
Archaeology. Throughout the years, the collection of
tracings in plaster that you creó was increasing
and you forms Museum of the Plasters. Nowadays it houses
more than a thousand tracings of Greek sculptures from
the age arcáica to the slow-Hellenism. The material
is distribuído in historical order in two galleries
and a central body.
- Address: Città Universitaria
- Phone: 445-32-70
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Antiquario Forense
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It was created by Giacomo Boni at the beginning of
the century. It is located in Santa Maria's Nova
convent. Due to restructuring works, it can only visit
one another the ground floor. In their four rooms they
are the opposing objects during the excavations of the
different areas of the Forum and also those opposing
ones inside the wells near the Temple of Vesta. They
highlight domestic instruments of the centuries IX and
VIII to. C.
- Address: Piazza Santa Maria Nova
- Phone: 699-01-10
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Octagonal Classroom
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The classroom occupies the Southwest angle of the
central group of the Thermal baths of Diocleziano. In
1929 it was transformed into planetarium. Recently it
has been restored with what the beauty of almost intact
relief has been stood out. The iron structure has been
conserved on the one that leans on the vault for its
originality, but also to leave testimony of the destination
previous of planetarium of the classroom. Among the
exposed works they deserve special attention: 'Apollo
Secondary school', it copies of the century II d. C.
of an original of Praxiteles that was found in the area
of the Thermal baths of Trajano in the neighbourhood
of San Pietro in Vincoli and 'Aphrodite of Cirene',
statue that comes from Cirene, in Libya, and it is a
splendid copy of half of the century II d. C. All the
other sculptures among them 'Aphrodite Anadiomene',
'Heracles', 'Doríforo' and 'Aphrodite Cnidia'
they were found in the thermal groups.
- Address: Via Romita
- Phone: 488-05-30
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Braccio Nuovo (Inside of Musei Capitolini)
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Museo Archeologico Ostiense
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Museo della Civilizzazione Romana
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The museum was founded in 1927 first floor the name
of Museum of the Roman Empire, and it housed the collection
that was in the Archaeological Exhibition of the Thermal
baths of Diocleciano 1911. It was getting rich thanks
to the documentation gathered for the Exhibition Augustea
of Romanidad 1937. In 59 rooms the museum exposes a
great reproduciones number, monuments and works of art
of all the Roman counties. The material is orderly in
a didactic way, illustrating in a clear way the history
of Rome, its civilization and the repercussion that
it had in the world.
- Address: Piazza G. Agnelli
- Phone: 592-61-35
- Fax: 592-60-41
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Museo della Via Ostiense
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It shows the documental material that illustrates
the history of the Road Ostiense and that it is exposed
in the towers and passageways inside the Door Ostiense
or of San Pablo. One can also see the structure of the
door opened up in the walls aurelianas. In the two towers
the big plastics of city of Ostia can be seen and of
Pueto of Trajano, as well as the plastics of other buildings
ostienses.
- Address: Via R. Persicheti
- Phone: 574-31-93
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Museo delle Antichità Etrusche
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Museo of the Walls
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It is located in one of the bigger and better conserved
doors of the walls Aurelianas, the Door Appia or of
San Sebastian. By means of didactic panels, in Italian
and English and plastics are shown the development of
the fortifications of Rome through the history.
- Address: Via Porta S. Sebastiano
- Phone: 704-752-84
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Museo delle Origini
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In this museum objects are exposed that date from
the neolithic one until the age of the iron. The visitor
will enjoy visiting this museum, because besides showing
the objects of the prehistory, the visit will be enriched
with an audiovisual support that provides explanations
that difficultly can be given in the panels. The visitor
can also manage the reproduced objects or to travel
the whole mediating chain of operations which an instrument
has taken place.
- Address: Città Universitaria
- Phone: 495-79-88
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Museo del Vicino Oriente
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In two sections, Egyptian and that of oriental archaeology,
shows the archaeological pieces prepared in a chronological
order and for areas. Funeral teams of Antinoe can be
seen, pieces of Pharaonic time, objects found in excavations
tebanas, etc.
- Address: Via Palestro (Università
La Sapienza - Facoltà di Lettere)
- Phone: 445-36-72
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Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale
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This museum, located in Palazzo Brancaccio, works
of the architect Luca Carmini 1892-96 it is the Italian
most important collection in oriental art. It shows
the antiques of Old Middle East, Tibet, China, Japan,
Asian Southeast, India and Gandhara etc.
- Address: Via Merulana
- Phone: 73-59-46
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Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia
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The Pontiff's Villa Julio III, construída
on the plan of Jacopo Barozzi of Vignola between 1551
and 1553, houses, from 1889, the Museum Nazionale of
Villa Giulia. Their objective is to collect the pre-Roman
antiques of Straight, of Etruria of the south and of
Umbria; they can be seen discoveries coming from the
excavations carried out in the part of the terriotorio
of the Straight one that it goes from Tiber to the
sea mainly and belonging to the civilizations etrusca
and falisca. Among the exposed pieces they highlight
the statue of Centaur century VI to. C., a tomb of intact
Cervéteri, three clay statues 'Apollo', 'Hércues
fights against Apollo for the cierva', 'Goddess with
boy in arms' found in Veyes, a sarcophagus of style
orientalizante that comes from a tomb of the century
VI to. C. , the famous sarcophagus 'of the husbands',
teacher etrusca of the century works VI to. C., etc.
- Address: Piazza di Villa Giulia
- Phone: 320-19-51
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Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico
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It understands the Prehistoric sections and Protohistórica
and the Ethnographic Section. Located in the region
of Straight, in the second floor of EUR, while in the
first one one can see the ethnographic section.
- Address: Zona EUR - P. De Marconi
- Phone: 591-07-02
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Musei Capitolini
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The Museums Of the Capitol are inside two waxed buildings:
Palace of the Conservatives to the right, and New Palace
or of the Museum to the left. Both buildings were built
according to Miguel's angel project urbanístico.
Together with Palace of the Senators that is behind
they constitute a classic area in the heart of Rome.
The foundation of the Museums of the Capitol goes back
a year 1471, when Pope Sixto IV donated some brass works
to the town of Rome. Throughout the centuries the collection
increased thanks to the numerous donations and acquisitions,
and mainly, to the discoveries in the Roman territory.
In 1749 XIV Banedicto a Pinacoteca added.
- Address: Piazza del Campidoglio
- Phone: 399-67-800
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Palazzo dei Conservatori
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In the patio they highlight the remains of the "Statue
of Constantiono", (head, arm, leg, hand and feet)
acrólito that was encotrado in the apse of Constantino's
Basilica. In the piazza it is Constantino's head II,
another colossal statue. It highlights the Egyptian
collection, reliefs of Augusto's Arch and, of course,
the "Wolf Of the Capitol", famous sculpture
of brass of the century V to.C. that it represents the
wolf that adopted Romulo and Remus. According to the
tradition, it seems that the twins were added in the
XV century by Antonio of Pollaiolo.
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Palazzo Altemps
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This Renaissance palace, work of Girolamo Riario,
owes its name to the family Altemps that enlarged it
and it made build one of the Roman most beautiful
patios. In 1887 the palace was acquired by the Santa
Headquarters to become property of the Italian State
in 1982 that dedicated it to the second headquarters
of the Museum Roman Nazionale. Today it houses this
way the cardinal's collection Ludovico who was able
to gather an extraordinary collection, testimony of
the pleasure antique dealer of the patrician Roman families
in few years. They highlight the works of artistic great
value as "Galata that is killed next to their wife",
it copies of a group parchment, "Plow Ludovisi",
it copies remontable to Lisippo, the "mosaic of
Castelporziano" century II one of the biggest mosaics
well-known Roman etc.
- Address: Piazza Sant'Apollinare
- Phone: 683-37-59
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Palazzo Massimo - Museo Nazionale
Romano
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Museo Nazionale Romano - Terme di Diocleziano
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After the restoration of the group of the Thermal
baths and the transfer of some of the works to Palazzo
Massimo, at the moment the Thermal baths house an exhibition
of material fúnerario. The Museum Roman Nazionale
is in the living rooms of the Thermal baths and it houses
works that came out to the light thanks to the excavations
carried out in Rome and in its neighbourhood, among
those that highlight: Venus of Cirene, Niña of
Anzio, Torso Valentini, Torso Ludovisi.
- Address: Via E. De Nicola
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Museo della Camera Storica
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It picks up the historical documentation of the registrations
of having executed. Baskets can be seen for the head
of the decapitated ones, machetes to cut the rope of
the fork, strings, sacks and hoods.
- Address: Via San Giovanni Decollato
- Phone: 679-18-90
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Museo della Comunità ebraica di Roma
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This museum occupies it leaves from the Synagogue,
built in 1904 by the architects Boy Costa and Osvaldo
Armanni amid the ruins of the old ghetto. In the walls
of the museum photographic reproductions of steps of
codes and manustcritos can be seen next to other original
documents that illustrate the relationships of Hebrews
of Italy with their country; they highlight relative
documents to the Nazi dominance, bulls and papal bans,
codes that contain Pantateuco and other texts. They
are also exhibited objects of liturgical use.
- Address: Sinagoga, Lungotevere Cenci
- Phone: 656-446-48
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Museo of the Souls of the Deceaseds
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A singular museum that is beside the neo-Gothic small
church of the neighborhood Prati. Last century, in 1897,
the priest Victor Jaüet, epezó a collection
of objects, cloths, you stew, tunics, breviaries, Bible,
shirts at night etc. `crazy' to fire for the hands of
the deads to check to the alive ones their existence
ultraterrena.
- Address: Lungotevere Prati (Chiesa del
Sacro Cuore del Suffragio)
- Phone: 688-065-17
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Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna
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In 1883, with reason of the Universal exhibition,
Ayntamiento of Rome acquired forty watercolors of Ettore
Roesler Franz and later, in 1913, when Auguste Rodin
donated to the city the titled brass 'Bust of Mrs.'
the communal Administration had the duty of offering
a place where the works would be shown acquired in the
last decades. At the moment, after having been located
in different places, the gallery has its headquarters
in the old convent of Barefoot Carmelite and it has
the exhibition of 130 works that illustrate
the most significant movements in the Italian art of
the XX century, it also offers a representative
panorama of the art of eight hundred. It has a library
with scientific records and a catalog computerized for
the consultation on the part of who want it.
- Address: Via F. Crispi (Piazza S. Pantaleo)
- Phone: 474-29-04
- Fax: 474-29-12
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Galleria dell'Accademia Nazionale di San Luca
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This Academy has its origin in the University of
Painters, Miniaturists and Embroiderers of the XV century.
Acacemia had a lot of prestige during centuries, and
to check it it is enough to read the lists of its Italian
members and foreigners admitted from final of the XVI
century until our days. The old statutes demanded each
academic to donate his work to the academy, while the
Prince should also leave his portrait. This way, from
1600 it left creating a collection of more than
a thousand paintings and sculptures, among those which
about 500 portraits, and a remarkable number of drawings.
Later it was added the collection of Pinacoteca Of the
Capitol and some legacies among those that highlight
those of Fabio Rosa, of Cavaceppi, of Domenico Pellegrini,
of Maurizio Dumarest and of the baron Lazzaroni. For
these reasons the collection is not too homogeneous,
but the works of 600 700 are of interest.
- Address: Piazza della Accademia di San Luca
- Phone: 678-92-43
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Galleria di Pallavicini e Casino dell'Aurora
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The cardinal Lazzaro Pallavicini, their niece united
with John the Baptist Rospigliosi, the pontiff's nephew
Clemente creating the Roman potent field of the house
Pallavicini, of the well-known Genoese family. him creó
the nucleus of the collection of the gallery gathering
the works coming from Genoa, among which highlight thirteen
paintings of Rubens. Nowadays in the interior, one can
admire the famous one 'Dawn', colored to the cool air
for Giudo Quarreled, in the vault of the Casino, while
the walls are adorned by those 'Paisajes'de Pablo Brii.
They highlight works of Sandro Boticelli, Luca Signorelli,
Anniballe Caracci, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Nicolás
Poussin, Velázquez, Luca Giordano and others.
- Address: Via XXIV Maggio
- Phone: 482-72-24
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Galleria Doria Pamphili
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In their rooms decorated to the style of the XVIII
century, a great number of paintings is exhibited, among
them some works teachers, of Italian school and of other
countries, of the XV centuries to XVII. Among the represented
painters they highlight Titian "Herodías",
Tintoretto "Portrait", Rafael "Portrait
of two characters ", "Sacred Lotto Girolamo",
Saraceni "San Asleep cured by an angel", Caravaggio
"Magdalena", "Rest during the escape
to Egypt", Guercino "Heminia and Tancredo",
Giovanni gave Paolo "Birth and Engagements of the
Virgin", the shepherds'" Parmigianino "Adoration,
Rubens "Portrait of a Franciscan", Breugel
the Old "Battle in the nápoles" gulf,
Velázquez "Portrait of Inocencio X",
Bernini "Bust of Inocencio X", Claude Lorrain
"Landscape with figures", "Escaped Carracci
to Egypt", Domenichino "Landscape", G.
Dughet "Escaped to Egypt", and Salvatore Rosa
"Landscape."
- Address: Piazza del Collegio Romano (Palazzo
Doria Pamphili)
- Phone: 679-43-65
- Fax: 678-09-39
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Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica (Palazzo
Barberini)
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This palace, one of the most imposing and significant
of the Baroque period, it was begun in 1625 by Maderno
helped by Borromini, and finished in 1633 by Bernini,
to who owes you the piazza facade crowned by a double
gallery cerada, flanked by showy windows. Of Bernini
it is also the perron, and of Borromini the elliptic
stairway under the piazza. The building is the headquarters
of the Gallery that it understands a collection
of XIII painting of centuries to XVIII. Among the works
they highlight 'History of Christ' of Baronzio, 'Virgin
with the Boy' of Teacher of Palace Venice, 'Virgin
with the Boy' and 'Announcement' of Filippo Lippi, 'Magdalena'
of Piero I gave Cosimo, 'Fornarina' of Rafael, 'Portrait
of Stefano Colona' of Bronzino, and many other works
of Lotto, Tintoretto, the Greek one, Caravaggio, Poussin,
Holbeyn and Metsys. The apartment Barberini, of the
XVIII century that attracts for its rich decorations
to the style rococó is in the second floor. 13
rooms dedicated to Italian painters of the XVIII century
are also in this plant. In two rooms the works of the
legacy of the Duke of Cervinara can be seen, dedicated
to French artists of the XVIII century and the Section
of ornamental arts of the XVIII century, with furniture,
porcelains and suits of the time rococó.
- Address: Via Barberini
- Phone: 481-44-30
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Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
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Located in the great palace of Fine arts, built by
Bazzani in 1911, it is the biggest collection in art
of the XIX and XX centuries in Italy. The works are
exposed in a chronological order and they show artistic
different movements. In the room of projections, the
slides illustrate the most representative movements
in the period.
- Address: Viale delle Belle Arti (Valle Giulia)
- Phone: 322-41-52
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Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Corsini
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Built in the XV century for the cardinal Domenico
Riario, the palace transformed into the Queen's habitual
residence Cristina from Sweden in the XVII century,
when she abdicated to the throne and it hugged the
Catholic religion. The elegant facade is work of Ferdinado
it Escapes and it was added later one century. In
the superior plants it can be the other part of the
Cockpit Nazionale d "Art Antica. Of special interest
they are the paintings of the late period, as Caravaggio's
two magnificent works, "Narcissus" and "Saint
John the Baptist", "San Sebastian" of
Rubens, and I "Rest in the escape to Egypt"
of Van Dyck.
- Address: Via della Lungara
- Phone: 688-023-23
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National Institute for the Graph
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The institute is not a museum, since a permanent
exhibition of works doesn't exist, but the place of
conservation of drawings, prints and recorded foils
that they can be examined by the specialists that have
the correspondente application. Their bottom is vastly
rich; 150 000 forms and drawings Fund Corsini, National,
Pious, Druisani, the Chalcography that conserves around
2 400 molds that go from the XVI century to the XX century,
funds Canova, Camuccini, Volpato, the famous bottom
Piranesi, among the contemporaries those of Carrá
and Morandi etc. is The institute also has competition
in the picture field. The institute is also distinguished
for different exhibitions so much graphic as photographic
that are organized every year.
- Address: Via della Stamperia.
- Phone: 654-05-65
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Museo Canonica
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In the seven rooms of the ground floor it exposes
the sculptor's works Canonical Pietro, marbles, brasses,
models of plaster and tracings. The study and the painter's
apartment that are in the first floor can only visit
one another with a special permission.
- Address: Víale P. Canonica (Villa
Borghese)
- Phone: 844-95-33
- Fax: 884-57-02
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Museo Centrale del Risorgimento
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Inaugurated with the reason of the centennial of
the plebiscite for capital Rome, October of 1970, 2
this museum houses the collection that was conserved
in a part from the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II
from 1900. It is about the material that refers to Italian
Risorgimento, orderly in a chronological way in five
sections, and covering the period from the second half
from the 700 to First World War.
- Address: Via San Pietro in Carcere
- Phone: 679-35-26
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Museo della Alta Età Media
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This museum, been founded in 1967, consists of seven
rooms on those that archaeological material is exposed
and collect that they date of the last times of the
Age Antigua, among the centuries IV-VI d. C.
- Address: Viale Lincoln
- Phone: 591-56-56
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Museo delle Arti e Tradizioni popolari
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The objects are organized in a didactic way in 10
sections that they illustrate the cycle of the year,
cycle of the human life, the house, agricultural life,
seafaring life, urban life, art, dances, music, dresses
and popular religiosity.
- Address: Piazza Marconi
- Phone: 591-07-09
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Museo of the Instruments of Reproduction
of the Sound
The museum is located in the superior locals of the
Disco of the Italian State. You creó with the
nucleus donated by one of the most important signatures
in the sector of the years thirty, the 'Loreto' of Naples.
It is prepared in three rooms and preserve strange recording
apparatuses has more than enough rolls of wax and disks
of magnetic tape.
- Address: Via Caetani, Palazzo Mattei
- Phone: 686-41-97
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Museo of the Musical Instruments
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The museum was inaugurated in March d 1974, it
has headquarters in the excuartel 'Prince Piemonte',
built in 1913. The museum was formed around the collection
that belonged to the tenor Evan Gorga and that it passed
to the Italian State in 1950. Later other instruments
were acquired among those that highlight those of Benedetto
Marcello, the famous harp of the family Barberini and
the instruments that were in Palace's Museum Venice
and the Museum of the Arts and Popular Traditions. The
instruments are exposed in 18 rooms and they are organized
according to the chronological approach, for categories
or other goods.
- Address: Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
- Phone: 757-59-36
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Museo del Palazzo di Venezia
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Located in the palace Venice, built in the year 1455
for Pope Paolo II, by Alberti. It possesses a wide collection
of applied arts. It highlights the enamel of Pantocrátor
of the XIII century, Alba's triptych Fucens, the statue
of pontiff Of Arnolfo gave Change etc.
- Address: Via del Plebiscito
- Phone: 679-88-65
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Museo di Roma
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Palazzo Braschi was built after the year 1792 by
C. Morelli for the nephews of Pious VI Braschi, and
it is the last palace papal relative of Rome. It is
located in the square I Lampoon, where it is the
I Lampoon, mutilated torso of Greek statue, the most
famous in those 'speaking statues' of papal Rome. It
houses the Museum of Rome that in numerous rooms sample
relative material to the history of Rome from the Half
Age until the present time.
- Address: Via di San Pantaleo (Palazzo Braschi)
- Phone: 687-58-80
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Museo del Folklore
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Located from the year 1972 in the ex-convent of Carmelite
that dates of the XVII century, this museum it gathers
objects, paintings and sculptures that illustrate the
daily life of the city of Rome in the XVIII and XIX
centuries. The collection is supported by an audiovisual
didactic support.
- Address: Piazza Sant'Egidio
- Phone: 581-65-63
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Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant Angelo
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This is one of the singularest monuments in Rome.
It was built for the Roman emperor Adriano 135-139 as
mausoleum to be transformed by Aureliano in fortified
bridge head. In 1527 Clemente VII took refuge in the
one during the "sack of Rome."
Among the most outstanding in the castle it is necessary
to point out their stuccoed walls and decorated with
paintings to the cool air, the collection of furniture
and tapestries of the rooms pontificiales, the impressive
collection of weapons and old armors in the area of
the dungeons, as well as archaeological, medieval and
exotic weapons.
- Address: Lungotevere di Castello
- Phone: 678-50-36
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Museo Napoleonico
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Most of the collection of this museum owes to the
Count Primoli, son of Carlota Bonaparte. The Count Primoli,
Roman of origin, it passed good part of their life in
Napoleon's court III and after the fall of the Empire,
to the turn to Rome, it was devoted to collect works
of art and beautiful objects of the Napoleonic time.
- Address: Piazza di Ponte Umberto I (Palazzo
Primoli)
- Phone: 688-062-86
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Museo Numismatico della Zecca
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It is located in the locals of the ground floor of
the building of the Ministry of Treasury, the architect's
grandiose palace Rafael Canevari. It consists of 20
800 pieces; collections of currencies, medals, stamp
meterial, models in wax and artistic objects.
- Address: Via XX di Septiembre
- Phone: 476-133-17
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Museo e Galleria Borghese
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It is located in the village that ordered to build
the cardinal Borghese in 1613. It contains old sculptures
as "Paulina Borghese" of Canova
1805, "David throwing the sling", the "Kidnapping
of Prospina" and "Apollo and Dafne" of
Bernini. Galleria contains a collection of painting
in which highlight works of Rafael "Descendimiento",
woman's "Portrait and unicorn" and masculine"
"Portrait, Cranach "Venus and Love",
"Virgin Caravaggio of the Grooms", "Bacchus
boy", "Young with basket of fruits",
Correggio "Damaged", Titian sacred "Love
and profane" Love, Bellini "Virgin" etc.
- Address: Piazzale Scipione Borghese
- Phone: 854-85-77
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Colecciones Paleontologiche e Lito-Mineralogiche
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The collection of this museum was transferred Rome
of Florence in 1873 to Ufficio Geologic pro initiative
of the Geologic Committee. It gathers different samples
that were during the investigations of the floor with
the reason of making the Geologic National Map. It
understands remains of fossils, rocks and minerals.
The collections palenontológicas are represented
by organisms of the animal Kingdom and vegetables distributed
estratigráficamente from the Era Paleozóica
and the Era Neozóica. Many of the pieces are
only in the world.
- Address: Largo Santa Susanna (Servizio Geologico
Italia)
- Phone: 474-23-19
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Erbario
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With almost a million copies are one of the biggest
Herbaria in Europe. It was formed by initiative of Giuseppe
of Notaris at the end of last century. Thanks to him
they have met the private valuable herbaria to form
this important collection. The collections are conserved
in two rooms and they are divided in five sectors: Roman
Herbaro, General, Herbal Herbarium Cesati, Herbal Monteluci
and Herbal Anzlone.
- Address: Università La Sapienza (Facultad di Ciencias Matemáticas)
- Phone: 499-124-10
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Museo Astronomico Copernicano
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In 1873 to celebrate the IV centennial of Nicolás'
birth Copernicus, surgío in the University Sapienza
the idea of founding a museum in the great reformer's
of the planetary system honor. The collection was getting
rich and it houses a considerable number of 'Copernican
trophies' - globes, astrolabes, sextants, meridian,
astronomical quadrants, books etc. It also highlights
the library that understands around 15 000 volumes,
collections of astronomical magazines that go back to
the second half of the 1700. Of remarkable interest
it is the wide photographic review of celestial objects,
obtained by probes and satellites.
- Address: Víale Parco Mellini
- Phone: 34-70-56
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Museo Civico di Zoologia
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This museum was inaugurated in 1932. It picks up
collections that belonged to the Zoological Museum of
Univesidad. Copies of mammals and birds are exhibited,
some of the oldest and important copies of birds like
'Razorbill impennis', already extinguished, the 'Gyapaetus'
of marine Alps and the 'Cygnum Bewieki' found in S.
Rossore.
- Address: Via Ulisse Aldrovandi (Villa Borghese)
- Phone: 322-10-31
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Museo di Anatomia Comparata
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Housed in the Ability of Physical and Natural Sciences
of Università Sapienza.
The origin of this museum goes back a year 1804 when
I Tweet VII I found the Class of Natural History and
of Mineralogy of Archigimnasio. At the moment this Museum
is part of the Department of animal and human Biology
of the University of Rome. It contains skeletons and
prepared anatomical of the vertebrates, didactic collections
of compared anatomy and instruments for the microscopic
Anatomy and Histology.
- Address: Via Alfonso Borelli
- Phone: 49-01-23
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Museo di Antropologia
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In this Museum you consevan different discoveries
of anthropological, paleontological interest and primatológico.
Among more interesting lso they highlight skulls foósiles
neandertalianos found in Saccopastore, Rome, fossil
skeleton of neolithic old of Maiella, Tonterosssi, collections
coming from the Earth of Fire, of Papuasia, Peru old
etc.
- Address: Università La Sapienza
- Phone: 499-122-73
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Museo di Fisica
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It picks up the scientific material of historical
interest of the Department of Physics of the University
'Sapienza' of Rome. Of special interest they are the
collections of instruments of the second half of the
Eight hundred and first décacas of the Nine hundred,
instruments used by Gruppo Fermi, and others of important
stages of the Italian physics.
- Address: Piazzale A. Moro (Università
La Sapienza - Dpto. di Física)
- Phone: 499-143-34
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Museo di Geologia
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The nucleus of the collection of rocks and fossils
owe to Giuseppe Ponzi, doctor and Roman naturalist that
it occupied the first Class of Geology of the year 1864.
The collections got rich and nowadays the museum houses
near 5 000 samples exposed in ten cabinets, and 2000
that are conserved in boxes by space lack.
- Address: Piazzale A. Moro.(Università
La Sapienza
- Phone: 499-148-25
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Museo di storia della Medicina
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Museo dell'Energia Elettrica
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Museo di Merceologia
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Museo di Mineralogia
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This is since the oldest museum in the ability of
mathematical, physical and natural sciences it was instituted
in 1804, with the wide collection of natural discoveries
collected by Archigimnasio of the Wisdom. Later their
collection was divided and it was formed the Museum
of Geology and the Museum of Pleontología.
- Address: Víale dell`Universitá
(Univ. La Sapienza)
- Phone: 499-148-87
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Museo di Paleontologia
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In two exhibition rooms the fossils of the animals,
mainly spineless and vegetable, and the bones and reconstructed
skeletons of vertebrates are shown with particular attention
to the quaternary mammals of the Straight one and of
the islands of Mediterranean. Of special interest they
are the skeletons of dwarf elephants found in Siracusa
and of dwarf deer.
- Address: Università La Sapienza
- Phone: 499-143-15
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Museo di Chimica
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Museo di Zoologia
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The headquarters of the ex-institute of Zoology shows
rich collections of vertebrates and spineless of great
interest. In the exposed cabinets throughout 48 meters
of facade expositiva important study collections are
shown as those of fish, amphibians and reptiles of the
mediterranean area, of skulls of mammals and micromamíferos,
of spineless of all you order them. It is also proud
of a rich library with about 25 000 volumes.
- Address: Vialle dell`Universitá (Univ.
La Sapienza)
- Phone: 495-82-54
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Museo storico delle Poste e Telecomunicazioni
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Although inaugurated in the year 1982, the collection
of this museum began in 1878, with the material coming
from those 'officii telegrafici' of the Italian abandoned
Old States after the unification of the Kingdom of Italy.
- Address: Víale Europa
- Phone: 595-820-90
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Museo storico Nazionale di Arte Sanitaria
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The museum is located in the locals of Ospedale of
sacred Spirito. It shows anatomical prparaciones, exvotos
Roman-etruscos, wide collection of surgical instruments
from the Roman time until the passed century, material
farmaceútico etc.
- Address: Lungotevere in Sassia
- Phone: 686-24-50
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Seconda Sezione del Museo di Zoologia
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This Museum is dedicated to entomology. It shows
the collections of several millions of insects, especially
butterflies and coleopterons. These come from numerous
investigation missions carried out in him Half and Next
east, in the mediterranean islands and in southern Europe,
besides Ethiopia, Mexico and the Asian southeast. It
also possesses a specialized important library with
15 000 volumes.
- Address: Via Catone
- Phone: 397-280-65
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Museo dell'Istituto storico e di Cultura
del Corpo di Ingegneri Militari
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The activity of the institute is developed in two
main addresses: the museográfica and the historical-cultural
one relative to the art fortificatorio and the engineering
and military architecture. Besides the museum where
important characters' memories are exposed that belonged
to the body, among those that the count of Cavour is,
materials used by the body in different times etc.,
a file that documents the activities of the Engineers
from 1 800 to our days is.
- Address: Lungotevere della Vittoria
- Phone: 372-54-46
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Museo storico della Guardia di Finanza
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Museo Storico della Fanteria
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The Museum, created in 1948, it is located in an
estate of style 'liberty' of 1903 on three floors, made
up of 35 rooms and 5 galleries and it is surrounded
by a park of 5000 square meters. The collection consists
of weapons, flags, memories, documents, plastics, squares,
sculptures, uniforms and other relative objects to the
Infantry. It is also to the visitor's disposition a
computer program constituted by a point of information
touch screen with which is possible to know through
images the origins of the museum.
- Address: Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemmne
- Phone: 702-79-71
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Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma
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Museo Storico della Motorizzazione
Militare
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It was created in 1957 to show the process of development
of the motorization of the Army. It conserves pieces
of great value and historical importance as Fíat
of Vittorio Emanuele III, used for the displacements
in the front during first Guerra World cup. Cars can
also be seen that have made history of the Italian motoring.
- Address: V.le dell`Esercito
- Phone: 501-18-85
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Museo Storico dei Bersaglieri
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Museum dedicated to the military body of Bersaglieri.
Its headquarters, from the 1932, is the it behaves
Pious, building lifted by will of Pious IV, and according
to Miguel's angel project between 1561 and 1564.
- Address: Porta Pia
- Phone: 48-67-23
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Museo Storico dei Granatieri di Sardegna
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The body of the grenadiers was formed in 1685 to
develop the capacity of fire of the Regiment. From then
on these soldiers took charge of advancing to the troops
and of throwing grenades against the enemy. They participated
in numerous battles; in the Wars of Italian Independence,
in First World War and also in the Segunda being distinguished
after September 8 1943 in the defense of Rome against
the German troops. This museum possesses some riquísimos
historical memories of all the times, many times donated
by the same ones military or for the families.
- Address: Piazza S. Croce in Gerusalemme
- Phone: 702-82-87
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Museo Storico dell'Arma dei Carabineri
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Museum, inaugurated in 1937, it is located in a building
of two plants in the square I gave Risorgimento. It
houses relative material to the carabinieri and after
the restructuring works, the collection is organized
following the new methods expositivos.
- Address: Via Cola Di Rienzo
- Phone: 653-06-96
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Museo Sacrario delle Bandiere delle
Forze Armate
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Archivio Museo Storico di Fiume
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This file-museum is in charge of Societá I
gave Studi Fiumani, and it illustrates the history and
the development of the region of Fiume today Rijeka,
Croatia that was of Italian domain during centuries.
The collection picks up strange objects, you photograph
and documents of the history and the life of the region
in the Italian period.
- Address: Via Antonio Cippico
- Phone: 591-57-55
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Museo di Criminologia
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This museum was founded in 1931 by initiative of
the Secretary of Grace and Justice Alfredo Rocco and
its purpose was of 'to pick up and to have to disposition
of the studies the objects of more relief that interest
although inirectamente, to the crime rate.' At the moment,
after the reestructruación of 1991, the museum
shows, in chronological order, the crimes, state activities
against the delinquency and executions of the hardships.
- Address: Via del Gonfalone
- Phone: 683-002-34
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Museo delle Cere
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Museo of the Central Institute for
the Pathology of the Book
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Museo of the Paper of the Printing
and of the Information
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Museo del Presepe Tipologico Internazionale
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Museo del Teatro Argentina
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Museo Nazionale of the Nutritious
Pastas
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The museum is located in Palazzo Scanderbeg, building
that owes its name to the Albanian Prince's nickname,
Giorgio Castriota that lived there in 1466. It seeks
to par excellence illustrate the virtues of the national
Italian food, the pasta. The journey begins with the
wheat mixtures and it dilutes of Etruscos, and it continues
with the musetra of the production of the pasta through
the centuries.
- Address: Piazza Scanderbeg (Palazzo Scanderbeg)
- Phone: 699-11-19
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Museo Torlonia
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Municipal Galleria of Modern and Contemporary
Art
- Address: Via F. Crispi
- Phone: 474-28-48
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Basilica di San Pietro del Vaticano
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It is the heart of the Christianity. After many years
in the complicated task of to reconstruct and to enlarge
the church, it works original of Constantino, they were
the architects Sangallo, Rafael and Peruzzi who directed
the construction of the most beautiful and grandiose
Basilica from all over the world, with form of Greek
cross, in their origin, being later in form of Latin
and finished off cross, later on, by Miguel Angel, with
the wonderful dome of 132,5 meters of high that gives
unit to the interior of the basilica. Modern Carlo's
facade, Bernini's piazza, above this Loggia, gallery
that gives before to the square mentioned with five
access doors, of these that of the right only opens
up every twenty-five years during the Sacred Year. The
central doors of brass, with own portrait and of their
assistants from behind showing their work, they are
work of Antonio Filarete that took twelve years in finishing
them 1433-1445. There also it can Bernini's Regal
Scala it turns.
In the chapel, to the right of the entrance, it
is San Pedro's more important work of art, 'Pietá'
of Miguel Angel that sculpted with single 25 years of
age, being also the only piece signed by him. Other
works that can be admired in the basilica are the sculpture
of 'San Pedro in the Throne' atribuída to Arnolfo
gave Change, XIII century, located at the end of the
ship and the right near the papal altar. Under this
altar it is the golden grill that covers the Niche
of Pallia, original and restored mosaic of the century
VI. Most of the interior of the basilica is Baroque,
work of Bernini, as well as the great central baldachino
of brass that took ten years in finishing and that it
runs off with above the papal altar. Their importance
is unquestionable.
One cannot stop to admire San Pedro's Tomb, located
in the same basilica.In the Treasure so important works
can be contemplated as the 'Dalmatian', the 'Cruz of
the Emperor Justino II' and the "Sarcophagus"
of Giunio Basso.
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Basilica Santa Maria in Aracoeli
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This very old basilica that rises in the summit of
Capitol, probably dates of the century IV or V. It was
restored to the románico-Gothic style by the
Franciscans to those that it trusted in 1250. In
the exterior one can admire their simple facade of bricks.
In the roomy interior of three ships one can admire
the rich roof carved in 1575 and the floor of type cosmatesco
of the XIII century. Also, it houses the 'Funeral of
San Bernardino', fresh of Pinturicchio of the XV century,
the 'San Antonio from Padua', another cool air of Benozzo
Gozzoli, the sepulchral tablet of G. Crivelli, work
of Donatello, a Roman Virgin of the century X, and the
monument to the cardinal D'Albert. In the old chapel
it stays the veneradísimo 'Boy Jesus', to
which go letters from all over the world. They
can also be admired fresh of Sansovino and Pomarancio.
- Address: Via dei Fori Imperiali
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Santa Francesca Romana
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Their name comes from a Santa of the XV century,
but the construction of the church dates of the century
X. The facade of the XVII century is due to Lombardi,
while the steeple dates of the XII century. In the interior
one can see 'Confession' of Bernini and 'Virgin in their
throne among Santos' a beautiful mosaic of the XII century.
San Roman Francesca is also the employer of the drivers
from Rome and every year, the day March 9, they come
closer to the church to receive the blessing.
- Address: En frente di Coliseo
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Santi Luca e Marina
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Santa Maria in via Lata
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San Marcello
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The reconstruction of this church was taken charge
to the great architect, Sansovino, in 1519. The Baroque
facade that one can observe at the moment is of Fontana
1683. In the interior they are other two works of Sansovino,
the cardinal's tombs Michiel and of the bishop Orso.
`The Crucifixion' of Van Dyck one can admire in the
Sacristy.
- Address: Via del Corso
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San Ignazio di Loyola
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This grandiose church Jesuit runs off with in the
homonymous square, call also dei Burró of butter.
It was built between 1626 and 1650 by Grassi on plans
of C. maderno and others. In the interior, of a single
ship, it highlights the rich decoration with marble,
fresh and ornaments. The vault is adorned by a 'trompe
l'oeil' that represents San Ignacio's entrance in the
Paradise, work of A. Pozzo.
- Address: Piazza San Ignacio
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San Lorenzo in Lucina
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The church dates of the century IV but it was restored
several times. In the interior, of the XVII century,
they stay the remains of San Lorenzo's grill. The cool
airs of P. can also be seen It gives Cortona, mosaics
of the century VI and in the biggest altar the 'crucified
Christ' of I Quarreled. The steeple románico
dates of the 1100.
- Address: Piazza San Lorenzo
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Sant' Andrea delle Fratte
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Basílica dei Santi Apostoli
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The basilica dates of the century VI, but it was
reconstructed in 1705 by Fontana. their neoclassical
facade is due to G. Valadier. The Renaissance piazza
finished in a crowned gallery of statues with a Roman
relief with the imperial eagle of the century II d.
C. it deserves the visit. In the interior they are the
cool airs of Baciccia, 'Ascención' a cool air
of Ricci and the monument in Pope's honor XIV Clemente,
work of Canova.
- Address: Piazza dei Santi Apostoli
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Gesú
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This church is that of more importance of the order
of the Jesuit in Rome. It was begun in 1568 according
to the project of Vignola that also served as the prototype
of the churches of Contrarreforma. The facade and the
dome owe to Giacomo Della it Carries 1575. The interiór
is the example of the pleasure of the churches Jesuit
with a rich decoration with marbles, brasses, gildings
and cool airs. `I triumph of Jesus' Name', the cool
air of Baciccia adorns the vault of the ship. In their
interior it highlights the Chapel of San Ignacio of
Loyola of A. Pozzo, under the altar the body of the
founder of the Order, San Ignacio of Loyola rests.
- Address: Piazza di Gesú
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Sant`Andrea della Valle
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This imposing church that has the second bigger dome
of Rome, was begun in 1592, according to the project
of Grimaldi and Giacomo Della Behaves. However the termination
of the work and the dome are due to Maderno. In the
wide interior, of a sóla ship, they highlight
the cool airs of Lanfranco, M. Petri and Domenichino.
- Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
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Chiesa Nuova o S. Maria in Vallicella
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It was built under the care of San Felipe Neri. Their
construction began in 1575, you continued under you
order them of M. Longhi the Old One. The Baroque facade
1605 are due to F. Rughesi. In the interior, one can
admire the roof covered with fresh of Pietro it
gives Cortona. In the apse and the altar, three squares
of Rubens are 'Virgin among angels' and to the sides
two squares of saints. They are also 'Maria's presentation'
and 'Visitation' of Barocci. In the chapel it is informed
San felipe Neri.
- Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuelle II
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Santa Agnese in Agone
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This church that dominates the square Navona, runs
off with in the place where, according to the legend,
the young martyr Inés, exposed naked, it was
covered miraculously by its hair. The construction of
the church began in 1652, according to the project of
Rainaldi, but it ended in 1657 low Borromini. In
the interior they highlight altarpieces in the altars,
statues paintings and fresh of Baciccia. Organizing
a previous appointment, the ruins of the Roman stadium
and an altarpiece of marble of A. can be seen Algardi
in the underground part.
- Address: Piazza Navona
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Santa Maria dell`Anima
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Church that dates of the beginnings of the XVI century,
highlights for its simple Renaissance facade of three
covers in one of those which a group of marble of Sansovino
is. In the interior they are two paintings of Saraceni
and the monument to Pope Adriano VI, projected by B.
Peruzzi.
- Address: Via della Pace
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Santa Maria della Pace
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Church of style of the first Rebirth, of the time
of Sixto IV. The facade and the polygonal square, one
of the most significant examples in the Roman Baroque,
they are work of Pietro it gives Cortona. Those
are in the interior 'Sibyls' of Rafael 1514, the cool
air of B. Peruzzi 'Virgin and saints', and the image
of the Virgin of the Peace that is considered miraculous.
The small cloister is considered one of the most important
works in Twine.
- Address: Vicola della Pace
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San Agustin
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In the interior of this Renaissance church, among
other works, highlight the worshipped statue of Madonna
of the Childbirth of Iacopo Sansovino 1521, 'Prophet
Isaías', fresh of Rafael, a group of marble of
Andrea Sansovino and 'Madonna dei Pellegrini', work
of Caravaggio.
- Address: Piazza San Agostino
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San Luigi dei Francesi
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Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
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To a side of the square Navona the Gothic only church
of Rome rises, built on the ruins of the temple dedicated
the old goddess Minerva in the year 1280. In their interior
numerous works of art, tombs and sepulchral monuments
of the XV-XVI centuries can be seen. They highlight
fresh of Filippino Lippi and 'The Christ loading Cruz'
of Miguel Angel to the left of the biggest altar. Also
guard the relics of Santa Catalina of Siena. In this
church The Trial of Galilean Galilei took place in the
annexed convent to this church.
- Address: Piazza Navona
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Santa Maria del Popolo
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This church reconstructed in the time of the Rebirth,
highlights to house in its interior the chapel Chigi
in way exagonal carried out by Rafael and the chapel
of the cruise with wonderful paintings of Caravaggio
that date of the years 1601-1602, besides other works.
- Address: Piazza del Popolo
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San Carlo al Corso
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Chiesa dei Cappuccini
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Chiesa di Sant'Andrea del Quirinale
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Chiesa di San Carlo delle Quattro
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Built by Borromini.
- Address: Via del Quirnale
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Santa Maria della Vittoria
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Santa Ines
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This church was built in a place that can be a little
I miss since it is inside the catacombs, place where
the saint of the same name was buried. Built among the
years 625-638, in this church one can see in the biggest
altar the statue of alabaster of Santa Inés that
dates of the XVI century under which rest their
remains together with those of Santa Emereciana. One
can also admire the golden mosaic of the century VII
that it represents to the Santa with a Byzantine dress
and surrounded by the potatoes that built the church.
- Address: Via di Sant`Agnese
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Santa Constanza
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Built church as mausoleum for the emperor's daughters
Constantino, Elena and Constanza, date of the century
IV. In her beautiful mosaics can be admired adorning
the vault, ornamental designs composed by geometric
and floral figures, adorned with Cupidos, birds and
fruits.
- Address: Via Sant`Agnese (perpendicular
a la via Nomentana)
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Santa Maria degli Angeli
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San Pietro in Vincoli
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It was built in the century V to keep the chains
it links of San Pedro. Later it was restored in several
occasions. In the interior it is Julio's mausoleum
II, it works unfinished in the one that Miguel angel
was working for responsibility all his life. At the
moment, it only houses to 'Moses' and it leaves of the
two lateral statues of it Ties and Raquel. San Pedro's
chains stay under the biggest altar.
- Address: Piazza San Pietro in Vincoli
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Santa Maria Maggiore
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Patriarchal great basilica, is one of the most important
places in pilgrimage of the city. The church, built
by Sixto III, is of structure paleocristiana and it
dates of the years 432 - 440. The basilica has 36 panels
of mosaics on the alquitrabe representing scenes of
the Old Testament. However, they are easier of appreciating
the golden and beautifully colored mosaics of the victorious
arch, representing the most important moments in Jesus
Christ life. They are also worthy of the Oratory of
Presepio of the century it turns VII, the small chapel
that remembers the grotto of Nativity, San José's
statues, three Reyes Magicians, the ox and the ass that
were part of the original Birth of Arnolfo are to request
to somebody of the Sacristy that opens the door of the
grotto to see them, the biggest Altar, with inlays of
agates, jasper, amethysts and lapislazuli, in the center
of this the celebrated portrait of Archeiropointeon
that supposedly it was not painted by human hand, and
it represents Madonna and the Boy, possibly of the century
VIII. To the feet of this, the statue of Pious IX kneeling
before the reliquary of the Santa Cradle that is exposed
the days 25 of every month and in Christmas Eve. August
five allow to fall white petals from the dome of the
chapel like commemoration of the vision of Liverio and
the legendary snowfall.
- Address: Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore
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Chiesa di Santa Pudenciana
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Santa Prassede
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Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
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It is the Cathedral of Rome, built in the century
IV on the barracks of the imperial army and reconstructed
in diverse occasions. In 1735 Alessandro Galilei restored
the main facade, inspired by that of San Pedro. The
central doors, made of brass, as old as famous, they
were brought of the House of the Senate in the Forum.
That of the right end only opens up during the Sacred
Year. Inside the basilica different and wonderful works
can be admired as a fragment of Pope's cool air Bonifacio
VII of Giotto and the monument to Pope Silvetre II are
said that this stone perspires and it makes a similar
noise when cracking of bones, but only before the death
of a Pope. In the biggest altar there is a wooden table
of which is supposed it is where San Pedro celebrated
the Sacrament, the Cloister where the artistic most
beautiful mosaics in Rome are shown carried out by Vassalletto
and his son with gold and multicolored marbles, the
Font surrounded by four chapels where he was carried
out the baptism for immersion or the musical famous
doors in San Juan's chapel.
- Address: Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano
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Scala Santa
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Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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Built church toward the year 320 probably for order
of Santa Elena, to house Santa Cruz's relic. It was
reconstructed in the year 1743. In the interior it highlights
the cool air 'Santa Cruz's legend' and the cardinal's
sepulchre Quiñones, work of Sansovino.
- Address: Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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Chiesa di Santa Bibana
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San Paolo fuori le Mura
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San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
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Dedicated to the sacred martyr Lorenzo. The original
structure of the church dates of the emperor's times
Constantino, but it was restored in numerous occasions.
Of special interest they are the pulpits of the century
13 and bishop's throne. Sacred Lorenzo's relics and
Estéban you ecuentran in the crypt.
- Address: Cimitero di Campo Verano
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San Gregorio Magno
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Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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San Cesare in Palatio
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San Giovanni in Oleo
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Santo Stefano Rotondo
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SS. Quattro Coronatti
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Capilla di San Silvestre
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San Clemente
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Basilica that dates of the century IV, but that it
was remodeled in the XII century. Inside three ships
it highlights the mosaic 'I Triumph of Cruz' of the
XII century and the chapel of Santa Catalina from Alexandria
decorated with fresh of masolino it gives Panicale
around 1431. You can also consent to the inferior church
decorated with fresh of the centuries VI - XII.
- Address: Via San Giovanni in Laterano
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Santa Maria in Cosmedin
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It considers it to him like one of the exemplary
buildings of the medieval time dates of the century
VI but it was restored in XII, time to which belongs
the steeple. The famous Mouth of the Truth, great marble
mask, that could bite the hand of the liars according
to the tradition is under the piazza.
- Address: Piazza Bocca della Veritá
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Santa Sabina
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Santa Cecilia
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Reconstructed in several, the main structure of this
church is of before the century V. At the moment, it
shows a Baroque facade, it works of Flight. Inside the
XVIII century, one can see 'The Decapitation of the
Santa', of Guido I Quarreled, Santa Cecilia's statue,
of Stefano Maderno and a great mosaic of the century
IX in the apse. In the convent to the side, one can
adimrar the 'Universal Trial', fresh of P. Cavallini,
teacher that dates of final of the XIII century works.
- Address: Via Antica (Trastevere)
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San Francisco a Ripa
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
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The first church dedicated to Virgin Maria's cult,
built toward the year 352 and reconstructed by Inocencio
II in 1143. It has a piazza that dates of 1702, steeple
románico of the XII century and facade of mosaics.
The church shows in the fresh interior of Domenichino.
- Address: Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere
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San Pietro in Montorio
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It was erected in the place where, according to the
legend, San Pedro was crucified. In the patio it highlights
the one tempers you of Twine, while in the interior,
works the are among other 'Lashing' of Sebastian of
Pombo.
- Address: Via Garibaldi
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Sant'Onofrio
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Domine Quo Vadis?
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Small church that is in the place where, according
to the legend, San Pedro asked to Jesus that had been
appeared: 'Do dominate quo vadis?` Mr., where do you
go?
- Address: Via Appia Antica
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San Sebastiano
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Catacombe di Domitila
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Abazia delle Tre Fontane
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In Via delle Acque Salvie, near the Road Laurentina,
Three Fuentes' Abbey rises. The whole architectural
group dates of the century V. According to the legend
this it is the place where they beheaded San Pablo.
Where it fell the head three sources they sprouted
and there three churches rose; Santos's church Vicente
and Anastasio 1221, Santa Maria's church octogonal Scala
Coeli, restored by Giacomo Della Behaves in 1583 and
the church of San pablo of Three Fuentes, also reconstructed
by Della it Behaves and where they are the three
legendary sources.
- Address: Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio - Santa
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It works of the emperor Adriano, it dates of the
year 139, and in their beginnings it was dedicated to
be their mausoleum. This castle was concluded by its
successor Antonio I Tweet, one year later della death
of Adriano. The Tomb Imperial, where they stay the urns
with the ashes of the emperors it is in the second floor.
The castle continued as mausoleum until the death of
Caracalla in the century III, when it became a well-known
strength as the Citadel of Rome. San Miguel's statue
crowns the crenels and it was added in 1753. Pope León
IV fenced with a wall Vatican and Borgo, transforming
it into a strength where they took refuge the potatoes
in times of danger. The passageway that Vatican unites
with the Castle made it Alejandro VI in the XV century.
During Pope's pontificate Paulo III, the interior was
decorated, being placed a marble angel in the highest
part, work of Raffaelo of Montelupo. During the Rebirth
it was used as prison and later as papal residence.
At the present time it welcomes the Museum Nazionale
of the same name, of great importance that opened up
to the public in the year 1933. They can visit one another
four plants and the papal apartments with valuable collections
of furniture, tapestries, painting, weapons and armors
that date of the century VII to.C., of authors like
Miguel angel and Perin of the Vagrant, among other.
In to the third plant Loggia of Pauolo is III that it
drives to the gallery open of Pious IV, from the one
that a panoramic beautiful della city is contemplated.
Also from the terrace Julio's Loggia II leave the you
Put on Sant'Angelo and in the part higher della citadel
it is contemplated San Pedro's beautiful view and their
neighbourhood.
- Address: Via Zanardelli, Mausoleo di Adriano,
Lungotevere Castello
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Torre degli Anguillara
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Torre delle Milizie
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Farnesina
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Piazza Venezia
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Palazzo Venecia
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It was the Fascist government's headquarters. It
is a battlemented building, provided of an angular tower.
This great palace of the Roman Rebirth made it build
Venetian Pope Paulo II in the year 1455. It has a provided
attractive museum of a stupendous sample of arts applied
among those that highlight an abundant and good collection
of sculptures like that of Arnolfo gave Change, as well
as the beautiful brasses of Barsanti, utensils of gold
and silver, tapestries, brocades and diverse samples
of the occupations and arts of the medieval and Renaissance
time; in the facade of the palace the angel highlights
decorated with enamels of Pantocrator of the XIII century.
The room of Mappamondo that served like office to Mussolini
has been totally restored in its original style and
it is located in the papal apartment.
- Address: Piazza Venezia
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Monumento al re Vittorio Emanuele
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Call also "Vittoriano", monument dedicated
to the king Victor II, it is known as the 'nuptial tart'
among the Romans. This gigantic mass of white marble
of Brescica resembles indeed in many senses a tart of
that type. This work of Giuseppe Sacconi was built to
evoke the unification of Italy and it was inaugurated
in 1911. In their interior one can admire the Altar
to the Homeland, the Unknown Soldier's Tomb, added after
Second World War and the Central Museum of Risorgimiento.
In the special occasions in that the building can be
visited, the panoramic of the city that one can admire
from its higher part is spectacular.
- Address: Piazza Venezia
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Campidoglio
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Piazza del Campidoglio
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If one wants to enjoy with incomparable Miguel Angel
it is necessary to admire the balance of the square
with their facades and pavements that, also, they were
his work. In this square you can contemplate a beautiful
sample of reliefs that come from the old Temple
of Adriano.
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Palazzo Senatorio
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Via del Corso
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Colegio Romano
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Palazzo Doria Pamphili
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It is distinguished for a facade to the style rococó,
work of Valvassori, while the patio dates of the principles
of the XVI century. Here they have inhabited diverse
families of aristocrats. At the moment bill with private
inhabited dependences that keep numerous so
much family memories in the green stay as in the living
room Dorian Andrea. The Dorian Gallery can visit one
another enjoying that the excellent pinacoteca of big
artists like Velázquez, Ticiano, Caravaggio and
Rafael with works as 'Pope's Portrait Pamphili', 'Inocencio
X', 'The Aided Religion for Spain and Salomé',
'Santa Maria Magdalena', 'Saint John the Baptist'
or the 'Escape to Egypt', among other. Also bill with
the Yellow living room that exhibits a collection of
twelve tapestries of Gobelinos made for XV Luis.
- Address: Via del Corso
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Piazza di Pietra
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Piazza Colonna
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Palazzo di Montecitorio
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Palazzo Borghese
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Thanks to their construción, to this magnificent
palace it is called 'il cembalo', since their portal,
work of Flaminio Ponzio has form of the keyboard. The
palace was the residence of the family Borghese since
the Cardinal Borghese, later potato Paulo V, bought
it in 1605. The liking of the family to the works of
art and the rich collections that they gathered, nowadays
one can admire in the Gallery Borghese. At the present
time the palace is not open to the public but it can
visit one another its patio and the gardens.
- Address: Via Fontanella di Borghese (Viale
dell'Obelisco)
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Piazza di Spagna
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This emblemática square, point of encounter
of Rome, owes its name to the Spanish Embassy before
the Santa headquarters. It dates of the time of Sixto
V and it is surrounded of monuments worthy of Monti
it turns as the Perron of Trinitá dei, the wonderful
Source of Barcaccia, supposed work of Pietro Bernini
or of their son Gian Lorenzo, the Column of the Immaculate
one or Palace of Propaganda Fide. In the neighbourhood
of this square they are the big signatures of the international
fashion.
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Scalinata della Trinitá dei
Monti
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Palazzo di Carpegna
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Piazza di SS. Apostoli
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Palazzo Colona
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Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
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Palazzo Vidoni
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Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
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Piccola Farnesina
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The facade highlights for the frieze of the flowers
of lis of France. It was probably built in 1523 according
to the project of Sangallo the Youth. It contains in
their interior the Museum Barracco with an important
old, original sculpture collection and copies, Roman,
Egyptian, Greek, Phoenicians, Assyrian, etc.
- Address: Corso Vittorio
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Palazzo Braschi
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Piazza di Pasquino
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Palazzo della Cancelleria
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One of the best samples in the architecture of the
Rebirth in Rome. Its construction, dated between 1483
and 1517, probably owes you to A. Bregno and Twine.
Their long facade gives to the square of Chancellery.
It is worthwhile the patio with arcades it probably
has more than enough columns of Twine.
- Address: Piazza della Cancelleria
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Palazzo Farnese
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This beautiful example of the architecture of the
Rebirth owes to Antonio Sangallo, Miguel Angel and Giacomo
Della Behaves. The interior houses, upholster and fresh
of Domenichino and of Lafranco. At the moment the building
is the headquarters of the Embassy of France.
- Address: Piazza Farnese
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Palazzo Spada
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Building built in the XVI century, owes its name
to the cardinal Bernardino Spada who I buy it in 1632.
It is characterized by an overloaded stucco facade,
work of Giulio Mazzoni. It is also famous the 'trompe
l'oeil', work of Borromini. The palace houses the homonymous
gallery, with works of art of great value.
- Address: Piazza Capodiferro
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Via Julia
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This street, parallel on Tiber, it owes their name
to Pope Julio II that it ordered it to build in the
XVI century. It is a right long layout, of an architectural
great nobility. To the princpio of the road julia you
leave the facade of the palace Farnese and later on
the paloacios Falconieri and Saccheti.
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Piazza Navona
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Square Navona is the most beautiful and grandiose
square in Baroque Rome. It is in elliptic way thanks
to that it was built in the place that previously occupied
the stadium of Domiciano, place where the Romans organized
naval battles. The atmosphere is only since painters
and artists meet here outdoors amid beautiful palaces
and coffees, with three stupendous sources, that of
Fiumi in the center, The Source of the Moor, and the
Source of Neptune.
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Via dei Coronari
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Palazzo Madama
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This beautiful building dates of the XVI century
and it belonged to the family Medici. It was the residence
of Caterina di 'Medici. It owes their name to Madama
Margarita from Austria, illegitimate daughter of Carlos
V that married a member of this family. From 1871 it
is the headquarters of the Italian Parliament's High
Camera.
- Address: Corso del Rinascimento
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Piazza Barberini
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Palazzo Barberini
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One of the most representative examples in the Roman
Baroque, their construction was begun in 1625 by C.
Maderno and completed by Bernini in 1633. Of the building
it highlights the stairway of snail of Borromini. To
Bernini they are also owed the facade and the perron.
The palace houses one of the best museums in Rome, National
Galleria of Old Art.
- Address: Via Fontane (Piazza Barberini)
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Via Sistina
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Villa Medici
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Porta del Popolo
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Piazza del Popolo
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Square in an oval way, adorned with sources, it was
planned by Valadier in 1816-1820. In the center the
shaft runs off with Flaminio, of the time of Ramsés
II (it dates of XIII-XII centuries to. C.). It is also
surrounded by the churches Santa Maria of the
Miracles (1679) and Santa Maria of Montesano
(1675), work of Rainaldi, Bernini and Fontana.
- Address: Piazza del Popolo
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Mausoleo di Augusto
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Via Vittorio Veneto
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Palazzo Margarita
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Largo Magnanapoli
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Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi
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Piazza del Quirnale
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Palazzo Quirinale
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Built in 1574, this palace was papal residence up
to 1870. Nowadays it is the official residence of the
Italian Government's President. It highlights their
Renaissance facade, the portal of G. Maderno and the
patio of D. Fontana. In the interior several living
rooms can be admired among those that highlight the
Living room of the Mirrors in which the beautiful chandeliers
of Murano can be seen, one can also admire the 'I Break
into fragments of the Trial Final'de Melozzo it
gives Forli.
- Address: Piazza del Quirnale
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Porta Pia
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According to Miguel's project Angel, his architectural
last work, was built in 1561. It is the expression of
the coalition among the rebirth and Baroque. The facade
was added in 1864 by Vespignani. This building welcomes
the Museum at the moment Bersaglieri with an interesting
exhibition of military objects.
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Piazza del Cinquecento
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Piazza della República
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Piazza dell'Esquilino
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Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano
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Palazzo del Laterano
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Via di San Gregorio
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Piazza di Porta Capena
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In the center the shaft of Aksum runs off with, of
the century IV, while to the side it is the palace Vignola,
of the XVI century.
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Piazza della Navicella
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Piazza Campitelli
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Palazzo Savelli-Orsini (Teatro Marcelo)
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Julio Caesar the construction of this enormous amphitheater
began with capacity for 20 000 people. The theater was
dedicated Macus Claudius Marcellus, nephew of Caesar
and of there its name comes. In the Half Age it was
transformed into strength and finally in the XVI century,
it passed at the hands of the family Savelli that took
charge to Peruzzi to transform it into family palace.
Nowadays it is divided in apartments.
- Address: Via del Teatro Marcello
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Isola Tiberina
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This island amid the river Tiber, from the distant
times was the place where the sick persons were treated.
In the times of old Rome here was the temple of Esculapio,
god of the Medicine, that was erected after the pest
that suffered the city in the year 291 to. C. Later,
the the Half Age the sick persons retired here to look
for rest. At the present time here it is the hospital
Fatebenefratelli.
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Piazza Bocca della Veritá
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Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta
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Puerta di San Pablo
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Old carries Ostiensis, it was opened in the wall
aureliana. The external facade is of the century V while
that of interior is of time of Aureliano (century III).
The interior houses the museum of the road Ostiense.
In their neighbourhood it is the Pyramid of Caio
Cestio and it leaves of the Walls Aurelianas.
- Address: Piazza di Porta San Paolo
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Piazza Trilussa
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Palazzo Corsini
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Paseo del Gianicolo
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Piazza Gianicolo
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Via Appia Antica
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Zona EUR
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The initials correspond to Universal Exhibition Of
Rome the 1942 that never ended up taking place because
of the war. The group was projected according to the
airs of greatness of Fascist Italy. After the war it
was transformed in the neighborhood of offices and services.
In this area it is a the palace of Sports, with the
capacity for 15000 spectators and an artificial lake.
In the center it is the square Marconi with the shaft
dedicated to this great one physical Italian.
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El Vaticano
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It is located in the area west of Rome in the hill
of Vatican that (Ager Vaticanus) was chosen for the
construction of the basilica because it was believed
that it was the place where San Pedro was buried. The
emperor Constantino erected the first basilica in the
century IV, but the one that is true symbol of the Santa
Headquarters dates of the XVI one. From the signature
of the Treaty of Letrán, in 1929, Vatican is
a sovereign state. It extends in a surface of 44
there is (what makes him/her the smallest country in
the world) and it has their civil and judicial own organization
besides mail, banking, presses and radio, rail station
and supermarket. In spite of this minuscule size Vatican
doesn't stop to be one of the richest States and, maybe,
more powerful of the world. It has numerous attractiveness
that make indispensable a visit. Besides the religious
main ceremonies that can be continued of lips of the
Sacred Father, Vatican offers an inigualable sample
of artistic treasures. The City of Vatican has numerous
museums and galleries, it possesses one of the biggest
Libraries in the world, one of the most potent Stations
of Radio in Europe and a great number of buildings of
artistic incalculable value. The architectural jewel
of Vatican is San Pedro's Basilica that houses marvels
among other Miguel's angel Pity. Other places of interest
are: Apostolic Palace, the Egyptian Museum, the Pious
Museum Clementino, the Missionary Museum, the Museum
of the Coaches, the Philatelic Postcard and the Museum
Gregorian Layman, among other many.
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Piazza Campo dei Fiori
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Trastevere
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Palazzo di Giustizia
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Palazzo Torlonia
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Quattro Fontane
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Villa Albani
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Built among the years 1743 and 1763 for C. Marchionni.
In their interior paintings of Batoni can be contemplated,
Guercino, Van Dych, G. Roman, Van Vitelli, Borgognone
and L. Giordano.
- Address: Via di Villa Albani
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Via Appia Antica
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Campidoglio
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It stopped to be the political center of the city
to open the way to an area of museums. To them you consents
through Miguel's wonderful cordonada Angel, a not very
marked slope with two groups of Dioscuros that was designed
by this brilliant artist for the Emperor's victorious
entrance Carlos V in Rome in 1536.
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Via dei Fori Imperiali
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Through this road you consents to the remains of
constructions that were built around the Roman Forum,
the one that was political center, religious and commercial
of old Rome. It unites the square Venice and the Coliseum,
passing among the Roman Forum to the right and the Imperial
Forums to the left. In this Road it is the Basilica
I gave Massencio, dedicated to the administration of
the justice and the business in the year 312.
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Colosseo
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Also well-known as Amphitheater of Flavio, it was
inaugurated in the year 80 by the emperor Tito although
the beginning of its construction dates of the 72 to.C.
It is the most celebrated in the Roman monuments of
the time of the Empire. In the external wall ionic columns
can be appreciated, corintas and doric (in the superior
part a great carp protected the spectators of the sun),
the velarium, the entrances with their 80 numbered arches
that they allowed the entrance to the town. Internal
enormous galleries allowed the accommodation in the
spectators' 10 minutes. In the interior you poeden to
see the great platform or podium where it sat down
the emperor and the members of the wealthy classes and
the vomitorium that it was the numbered exit of each
section and it is said that it took their name of
a gigantic statue of brass of the colossus that ran
off with next to the amphitheater. This construction
that it has seen countless combats of gladiators
and fierce. It has 57 meters high and a capacity
to welcome 50.000 people.
- Address: Anfiteatro Flavio (Piazza del Colosseo)
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Tempio di Venere e Roma
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Domus Aurea
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It is the place where, according to the legend, Nerón
was playing the lira while Rome burned. In this place
it was built a fantastic palace covered with gold and
the biggest luxury in the time in their rooms, with
springs of sulfurous waters as well as water hot current
and fry. Trajano ordered to build its Public Bathrooms
here after the fire destroyed it in the year 104. Today
the paintings can be appreciated, if it is had a good
lantern and binoculars, as well as the lobby octogonal
and the main lobby.
- Address: Palatino
- Phone: 699-01-10
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Foro di Giulio Cesare
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Lifted between 54 and 44 to. C., to commemorate the
victory of Farsalia, it was the first of the Imperial
Forums. At the moment they highlight the remains of
the temple of Venus Gentrix that contains the remains
of the basilica it would Silver and the remains of a
"forica (public latrine).
- Address: Via Fori Imperiali
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Foro di Augusto
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Foro Nerva
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Foro di Traiano
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It was the most impressive in the Imperial Forums
and one of the marvels of the world was considered in
their time, nowadays only preserve the Column of Trajano
of the year 113, with numerous figures that cover the
structure totally. The ashes of Trajano and their statue
crowning the tip was substituted in 1587 by San Pedro's
effigy. In these Imperial Forums they are two churches:
Sacred Maria of Loreto and Sacred Name of Maria.
- Address: Via Fori Imperiali
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Mercati di Traiano
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The group of old constructions to the Forum of Trajano
that were designed also by the architect Apollodoro
of Damascus, with three floors of rashers. They had
three levels prepared in semi-circle that housed
stores and offices. One can obtain an idea of their
antinguo splendor observing the arched roofs.
- Address: Entrata da via IV Novembre
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Arco di Constantino
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It is to a side of the Coliseum and it is considered
as the one bigger than the Roman arches that are conserved
at the present time. It dates of the year 315, it is
imposing due to the enormous proportions of their three
arches with statues and lockets and to the eight Corinthian
columns belonging to other times. It was built to commemorate
the emperor's victory Majencio it has more than enough
in the bridge Milivio. The best reliefs took of previous
monuments dedicated Marco Aurelio, Trajano and Adriano.
- Address: Foro Romano (estremo occidentale)
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Foro Romano
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It was the heart of the Roman life. You consents
through the Piazza of the Tolerant God with their twelve
columns. One can observe how the life of the Christian
prisoners was for the Romans in the jail Marmertina
and to relax you observing the Temple of the Concord.
Then the big disputes can be remembered by the power
in what was the headquarters of the Senate, the Curia,
been founded by the king I Cripple Ostilio (the current
building of bricks is a reconstruction of Diocleciano
of the 303 to.C.). In the interior Pluteos of Trajano
can be admired, two big altarpieces that show the animals
sacrificed in the solemn offerings and two scenes of
the life of Trajano and what is supposed that it is
the Tomb of Rómulo, a square stone of black marble
before the Curia, in the one that one can see the sacred
inscription that is the oldest document in the Latin
language, centuries V-VI to.C. Other important constructions
that can be admired in the Roman Forum are: the arch
of Severe Settimo, the temples of Saturn and Dioscuros,
the house of the Vestals, Tito's arch and the Basilica
of Magencio. To the north of the Road of the Forum Imperial
is the Forums of the Peace, of Nerva, of Augusto and
of Trajano.
- Address: Via Fori Imperiali
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Portico degli dei tolleranti
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Basilica Aemilia
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Built in a year 179 to.C. What today can turns it
is what was after the looting of Rome for Alarico (in
the year 410 d.C.), the floor of marble of colors, the
base of the columns and architrave fragments.
- Address: Foro Romano
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Chiesa di Santa Maria la Antica
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This church that dates of the century VI, is formed
by three ships with nátrex and apse surrounded
by two chapels. In the walls they can be seen fresh
of the centuries VI at VII with scenes of great importance
like: Cruz's Adoration, the Crucifixion or Santos's
Theory, among other.
- Address: Foro Romano
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Rostri
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Tempio di Saturno
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Curia
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It was the headquarters of the Senate. It was probably
founded by the king Tulio Ostilio. The current building
dates of the reconstruction of Diocleciano. The facade
of bricks is well conserved, In the interior one can
still see the rectangular enclosure in which the seats
of the senators were. They highlight the plúteos
of Trajano, two big altarpieces with images of sacrificed
animals and two scenes of life of Trajano.
- Address: Foro Romano
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Tomba di Romolo
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Before Curia, it is "lapis niger",
a tablet of black marble that covers the monument that
the old Romans considered the tomb of Rómulo.
The inscription that conserves is considered the oldest
document in the Latin language (century VI or V to.
C).
- Address: Foro Romano
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Sacra Via
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Basilica Julia
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Julio Caesar their construction began in 54 to. C.,
but it ended in Augusto's time. In times of Diocleciano,
year 284, it was reformed. At the moment, of enormous
building with piazzas, it is only the pavement and you
base them of the piazzas.
- Address: Foro Romano
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Colunna di Focas - Piazza del Foro
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This square, extends in front of Rostri. In the center
the column of Seals, the last monument of the Forum
is pulled (it dates of 608 d. C.), lifted in honor to
the emperor of East, Seals.
- Address: Foro Romano
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Tempio degli Deiscuri
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It dates of the year 484 to. C. and it was dedicated
to Dioscuros, the celestial twins, Beaver and Polux.
One can admire the high Podium Regilo, of the year 496
to.C. In the high thing of this three planked elegant
Corinthian columns of the times of Adriano or Augusto
get up.
- Address: Foro Romano
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Fonte di Juturna
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Tempio di Cesare
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Casa delle Vestali
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La Casa Regia
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Cimitero antico
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Tempio di Romolo
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Basilica di Constantino
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Palatino
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Hill that maintains the oldest memories in Rome.
The beauty of this place, with archaeological remains,
the wealth of their vegetation and their wonderful views
make of him one of the most beautiful places in the
city that inspires the proximity of the gods. Among
the architectural treasures that it keeps it is
necessary to highlight: Domus Flavia and Domus Augustana,
the emperors' private residence.
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Tempio di Cibeles
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Domus Tiberiana
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In the vicinities of the Temple of Cibeles. The statue
of Cibeles is under one of their arcades. And surroundings
are losrestos of some archaic monuments as the remains
of "campanne" of the Age of Iron, two circular
cisterns of the century V to. C and some tiers of Thief's
stairways that ascended toward the house of Rómulo.
- Address: Palatino
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Casa di Livia
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In this place the visitor can discover like the wealthy
Romans lived in the house. Tiberio ordered to build
the imperial residence here of which is conserved part
of the structure and some arched rooms with the paintings
murals of these, Calígula it made a continuation
of the house and a bridge to unite it to the Capitol.
In the oriental area it is famous Cryptoporticus
of Nerón, an underground long gallery in the
one that the decoration of stucco of the vaults has
been substituted by copies.
- Address: Colle Palatino
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Criptoportico
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Palazzo dei Flavi
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Domus Augustana
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In this place the emperors and their family resided.
It is palace it was built by Diocleciano, and at the
moment remains of a small temple are conserved, a great
patio with a source and, surroundings, numerous enclosures
covered with vault or dome. It can imagine to the perfection
the public's uproar that attended the competitions in
the Stadium.
- Address: Colle Palatino
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Ippodromo
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This enormous construction was good for the celebrations
of parties and competitions. It was built in the time
of Domiciano and restored by Severe Settimio, and it
was surrounded by a piazza of two orders. In the center,
todaviá is remains of the imperial gallery.
- Address: Estadio Palatino
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Termas Severianas
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Terme di Caracalla
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You construction, begun in the Severe time of Seventh,
ended during the government of its hico Carcalla to
the one who owe him/her the name. They were
the most luxurious bathrooms in Rome in their time.
To part of receiving 1.500 people in the interiors,
there were also gardens, a stadium, libraries, reading
rooms and trade. They were in operation until the century
VI. At the moment, they serve outdoors as scenario of
representations during the months of summer.
- Address: Via Terme di Carcala
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Tempio di Adriano
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Largo di Torre Argentina
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Terme di Diocleziano
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Circo Majencio
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Tomba di Cecilia Metela
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Sezione antica della Via Appia
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Circo Massimo
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Catacombe di San Sebastiano
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Portico di Ottavia
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Tempio della Fortuna Virile
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Colomna di Focas, Piazza del Foro
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Foro Romano
This square, extends in front of Rostri. In the center
the column of Seals, the last monument of the Forum
is pulled (it dates of 608 d. C.), lifted in honor to
the emperor of East, Seals.
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This beautiful park, with a surface of 86 has, it
is located to the northeast of Piazza of Popolo. It
was property of Cardinal Scipione Borgese in the XVII
century who designed it inspiring by Tivoli. Here, besides
the walks one can enjoy the lake, of a surrounded race
track of pines in the Square of Siena; it can visit
one another the small zoo located in the north end and,
of course, the Casino that albega Galleria Borghese.
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Zoo
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Villa Celimontana
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Botanical Garden
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This secular garden is located among Door Sptiminiana
and Door Angélica it was born in very distant
times. In 1278 an existed in Rome 'Viridarium' described
by the contemporaries as rich place of plants in which
were made grow medicinal different species
under the care of Simone it gives Genoa, Arquiatra
of Nicolás III. This garden was enriched and
abandoned successively. Nowadays it is one of the three
Italian more important botanical Gardens as much for
extension as for wealth of species, around 3 500. They
are interesting the collections of palms, of Coniferous,
Leguminous, Liliáceas, with very strange, old
copies or of very distant places. There are five hothouses
2 800 square meters where the delicate species and collections
of orchids, Ferns and fatty plants are conserved. Of
special interest it is the part dedicated the visitors
blind call the Garden of the Aromas. Aromatic and perfumed
willing plants are in this place or with ojas peculiar
to the tact indicated by labels in Braile.
- Address: Largo Cristina di Svezia
- Phone: 686-41-93
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Ostia Antica
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It highlights their archaeological area. Been founded
in the century IV to. C. it ended up being a point estratégicode
defense and trade since is in the coast. Here merchants,
soldiers and slaves lived. For that reason, the ruins
of the city show a clearing it contrasts with those
of Pompeii where the richest citizens lived. It was
abandoned after the attacks of Saracenos and a malaria
epidemic but it was reestablished in the century IX.
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Tivoli
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Located in the hill beside the river Aniene, it
settled down like place of I vacation of the Romans
during the time of the Rebirth. Most of the tourists,
nowadays, they are attracted by the gardens and sources
of Villa d'Este although the ruins of Villa Adriana
maybe deserves more attention.
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Viterbo
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This city been already founded in the times of Etruscos,
but it reached their splendor in the Half Age, concretely
in the XIII century, when the potatoes chose it as residence
place. Although severely bombarded during Second World
War, the city continues being, the best example in the
medieval city of the region of Straight. It is also
famous for their balenarios, the most famous in them
is Bulicame, mentioned in the "Divine Comedy"
of Giving.
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Abazia di Grottaferrata
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This place is to 21 kilometers of distance of Rome.
The Abbey was founded in the year 1004 by San Nile and
San Bartolomé, on the ruins of a Roman village.
Their external aspect is the one of kind of a strength
with walls, turrets and moats. To the museum of the
monastery you consents through a magnificent piazza
of Sangallo. The museum houses objects of the Byzantine
time, tablets, amphoras and prehistoric glasses and
etruscos. In the second patio the Basilica of Santa
Maria of Grottaferrata runs off with, built in
style románico and of the one that is only the
steeple of the XII century. The interior of the temple
of the century XVIII bill with three ships. Of the ship
of the right you consents to the Chapel of San Nile
of Aníbal Carracci, painted by Domenichino.
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- Address: Via di Tor Carbone
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Field of 18 holes
- Address: Via Appia Nuova
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Olegiata
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Field of 18 holes
- Address: Largo Olegiata
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- Address: Largo Fontanella Borghese
- Phone: 683-21-68
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ATP
- Address: Via Parigi
- Phone: 488-99-253
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Tourist information agency in Roma
ATP
- Address: Central lobby of the Station Termini
- Phone: 06-487-12-70
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Tourist information agency in Roma
ATP
- Address: Arrivals of the airport Fiumicino
- Phone: 06-659-54-471
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Policlinico Umberto I
- Address: Viale del Policlinico (Near Station
Termini)
- Phone: 06-499-71
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Policlinico Gemelli
- Address: Largo A Gemelli (far from the center)
- Phone: 06-301-51
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San Giovanni
- Address: Via Amba Aradam
- Phone: 06-770-51
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San Giacomo
- Address: Via Canova
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