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Place:Roma
Date:20/12/2003 Views:23225
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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Place:Roma
Date:20/12/2003 Views:10001
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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Place:Roma
Date:20/12/2003 Views:2087
The Trajan's Column.
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Place:Roma
Date:20/12/2003 Views:18845
The 'Trajan's Markets'.
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Place:Roma
Date:20/12/2003 Views:21063 Piazza Venezia (Venice square) - Altare della Patria (1911) and grave of milite ignoto
(unknown soldier)
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Place:Roma
Date:20/12/2003 Views:3430
View of Altare della Patria from the 'Foro di Traiano' (Trajan's forum).
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Place:Roma
Date:20/12/2003 Views:12687 Castel S.Angelo is mirrored by the river Tevere water
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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:2692 Piazza San Pietro (St. Peter Square) detail of the colonnade made by Bernini four centuries ago.
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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:2453 St. Peter Basilica.
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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2371 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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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2151 Wow how peoples are very small near the columns!. The central aisle is 186 meters long and 46 meters high.
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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2248 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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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2098 The putti supporting the holy water stoups are 2 meters high.
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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2059 St. Peter Basilica, the main entrance arcade.
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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:17275
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 h
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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:2135
Castel S. Angelo.
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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2276
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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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:2130
Vittorio Emanuele bridge.
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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2267
The river Tevere.
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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:11897
A view from Umberto I bridge.
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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:13321
Piazza Navona, the Fountain of the Nettuno.
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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2485
Piazza Navona, a close view of the most beautiful works of Bernini: Fontana dei Fiumi.
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Place:Roma
Date:21/12/2003 Views:23556
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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Place:Roma Date:21/12/2003 Views:2453
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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Place:Roma
Date:22/12/2003 Views:2235
Trinità dei Monti church.
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Place:Roma
Date:22/12/2003 Views:12223
View of Rome from the Trinità 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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Place:Roma Date:22/12/2003 Views:2588
The well known Trinita' Dei Monti staircase that leads to the homonymous church.
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Place:Roma
Date:22/12/2003 Views:9363
Close view on the 'Fontana della Barcaccia' with Trinita' Dei Monti staircase on background.
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Place:Roma Date:20/12/2003 Views:2080
Tempio di Venere Genitrice.
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Place:Roma Date:20/12/2003 Views:1935
View of the Colosseo from the street to Campidoglio.
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Place:Roma Date:20/12/2003 Views:1936
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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Place:Roma Date:20/12/2003 Views:1902
Ruins of Tempio di Saturno.
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