The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)


A hidden jewel in the historic center of Rome, a fascinating and mysterious little monument with a suggestive atmosphere: the so-called Barberini Mithraeum was discovered by chance in 1936 in the b
[...]The mitreo was discovered in the thirties during the building of the set storage facility for the Teatro Nazionale dell’Opera.
The mithraeum was discovered by chance in 1934 under the Church of Santa Prisca by the Augustinian Fathers; the walls of two buildings were used to construct it: o
[...]Located in Testaccio district and popularly known as Monte dei Cocci, Monte Testaccio is an artificial hill in ancient Rome's port area, near the horrea (warehouses).
[...]Places and sites of historical, cultural and artistic interest, the monuments of the territory of Rome include historic buildings
[...]Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian antifascist politician, MP and secretary of the Socialist Unity Party since 1922.
For more than a hundred years, Giuseppe Garibaldi has good-naturedly watched over Rome atop the Janiculum Hill<
[...]“Nun fuss’antro pe ttante antichità
bisognerebbe nassce tutti cquì,
perché a la robba che cciavemo cquà
c’è, sor friccica mio, poco da dí”
The monument, dedicated to one of the most famous Roman poets, stands in the square n
[...]The bronze statue depicts the severe figure of Alfredo Oriani (Faenza 1852 - Casola Valsenio 1909), a man of letters and historiographer active from the 1870s until 1909, the autho
[...]The Aurelian Walls still surround the historic centre of Rome and are among the longest and best preserved ancient walls in the world.
Built in all probability during the mid-sixth century BC, the Servian Walls take their name from the sixth king of Rome, Servius Tullius.
In a corner of Trastevere, a few steps from the famous Basilica of Santa Cecilia
[...]The Necropolis develops along the two sides of via Laurentina and a road connecting Ostia to the Pianabella area; later the tombs also occupied th
[...]The necropolis, identified and excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, stands on the sides of via Flavia, which connected Porto (Portus) with Os
[...]Between the Rupe di San Paolo and the bend of the Tiber was a vast burial groun
[...]The monumental two-storey nymphaeum overlooking Via Appia Antica, was the real entrance to the Quintili villa : from here, in fact, through a door
[...]In 1962, during the construction of the buildings of the current archive of the Vicariate, on the corner between via dei Laterani and via Amba Aradam, at a
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