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The Flavian amphitheater aka Colosseum, it was built by emperor Vespasiano
and inaugurated by its son Tito in 80 A.D. Its name, Colosseum, derives from the colossal statue
of Nerone which stood near the amphitheater.
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The Trajan's Column. It was built by Trajan in 113 AD to represent the monument of
the Dacha war won by Romans in 105 AD.
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The Trajan's Column.
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The 'Trajan's Markets'.
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Piazza Venezia (Venice square) - Altare della Patria (1911) and grave of milite ignoto
(unknown soldier)
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View of Altare della Patria from the 'Foro di Traiano' (Trajan's forum).
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Castel S.Angelo is mirrored by the river Tevere water
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Piazza San Pietro (St. Peter Square) detail of the colonnade made by Bernini four centuries ago.
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St. Peter Basilica.
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St. Peter Basilica, central aisle view. You may see another work of art created by Bernini: the baldacchino.
Built up in 1624 for Urban VIII it reaches 27 meters high including the cross.
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Wow how peoples are very small near the columns!. The central aisle is 186 meters long and 46 meters high.
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Four statues of the Doctors of the Church support the the San Pietro Pulpit.
Another work of art created by Bernini (1658).
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The putti supporting the holy water stoups are 2 meters high.
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St. Peter Basilica, the main entrance arcade.
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At the of Via della Conciliazione there is the impressive St. Peter Basilica. On the top of it
you may see the Michelangelo's dome. This big and majestic work of art in masonry
has the diameter of 42 meters and it is 136 meters high.
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Castel S. Angelo.
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Castel Sant'Angelo, this structure was started in 135 AD as a mausoleum for emperor Adriano.
Its turning into the form you still see today took place in the X century.
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Vittorio Emanuele bridge.
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The river Tevere.
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A view from Umberto I bridge.
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Piazza Navona, the Fountain of the Nettuno.
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Piazza Navona, a close view of the most beautiful works of Bernini: Fontana dei Fiumi.
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The Pantheon. It was a temple built by Agrippa in 27 BC and rebuilt by
Emperor Adriano in 128 AD in the form you still see today.
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The building of the Stock Exchange encompassing the eleven remaining columns
was built on the site of the enclosure of the Temple of Hadrian.
It was built by Antonino Pio in 145 AD in honour of Emperor Hadrian who was died.
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Trinit dei Monti church.
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View of Rome from the Trinit dei Monti.
You may see Via Condotti (the street in the middle of the picture),
and, on the bottom, the fountain 'Fontana della Barcaccia' made by
Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his son in 1629.
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The well known Trinita' Dei Monti staircase that leads to the homonymous church.
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Close view on the 'Fontana della Barcaccia' with Trinita' Dei Monti staircase on background.
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Tempio di Venere Genitrice.
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View of the Colosseo from the street to Campidoglio.
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The Arch of Septimius Severus, built in 203 AD on the tenth anniversary
of the emperor's ascent to the throne.
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Ruins of Tempio di Saturno.
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