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A celebrated and picturesque market by day, Camp dè Fiori quickly turns into a hub for nightlifers in the evening.
Tra il 1926 e il 1929 i lavori di demolizione del vecchio quartiere compreso tra Via del Teatro Argentina, Via Florida, Via S.
It occupies the area of the ancient circus of Flora, where floral games took place in May to celebrate springtime.
City centre and centre of political life of Rome, the square is surrounded by famous buildings: the Palazzo Chigi (on the right, with the colonnade behind) seat of the Cabinet Office since 1961; on
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While being the lowest and smallest of the seven hills of Rome (The Aventino, Capitoline, Caeline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinale, Viminale), the Capitoline is per
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Piazza della Repubblica, in passato chiamata dai romani ‘Piazza Esedra’, trae origine dalla grande esedra delle terme romane di Diocleziano il cui
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An outdoor “living room”, enclosed on one side by the columns of the Temple of Hadrian. The temple was dedicated to the emperor after his death in 145 AD.
Ancient heart of the Trastevere district, Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere is dominated by the Basilica from which it takes its name.
On entering the piazza, one is immediately taken aback by such elegance: the yellow, brownish ochre-coloured buildings, Bernini’s fountain and the celebrated Spanish Steps
[...]Aristocratically isolated, vast and regular, Piazza Farnese is in a quiet spot decorated with two big twin fountains of Egyptian granite coming from the baths of Caracalla.
Piazza della Madonna dei Monti si estende tra via dei Serpenti e via degli Zingari e prende il nome dalla chiesa di S.Maria dei Monti
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Undeniably the most elegant and cheerful of all Roman piazzas, it was built on the site of Stadium of Domitian in the 1st Century A.D. and still preserves its outline.
Not many people are aware that the very first Christian churches were “domus ecclesiae”, a household church or private homes which wealthy owners open their doors to for believers
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In Piazza Vittorio was one of the main open markets of the city (today in the ex Caserma Pepe close by). The square was built in 1870 and was given the name of the first king of Italy.
