The Tombs of the Via Latina (Italian: Tombe di Via Latina) are Roman tombs, mainly from the 2nd century AD, that are found along a short stretch of the...
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The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in...
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Appian Way Regional Park (category Ancient Roman tombs and cemeteries in Rome)
Rome to the 10th Mile, including the Villa of the Quintilii; the Park of the Caffarella; the Tombs of Via Latina archaeological zone; and the Aqueduct Park...
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Castel Sant'Angelo (redirect from Tomb of Hadrian)
building in Rome. The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also called Hadrian's mole, was erected on the right bank (or northern edge) of the Tiber, between...
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Pantheon, Rome (redirect from Pantheon of Rome)
royal tombs are maintained by the National Institute of Honour Guards to the Royal Tombs, founded in 1878. They also organize picket guards at the tombs. The...
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Colosseum (redirect from The Coliseum of Rome)
tickets in the form of numbered pottery shards, which directed them to the appropriate section and row. They accessed their seats via vomitoria (singular...
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notables and their families located in the angle between the Via Appia and the Via Latina on a connecting road joining the two just past the branch point...
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The Mausoleum of Augustus (Latin: Mausoleum Augusti; Italian: Mausoleo di Augusto) is a large tomb built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC on the...
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in 1308 and 1361. The remains of these charred tombs were gathered and reburied in a polyandrion. The popes whose tombs were destroyed are: Pope John...
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Appian Way (redirect from Via Appia)
For this stretch of the road, the builders used the Via Latina. The building of the Aurelian Wall centuries later required the placing of another gate, the...
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Trevi Fountain (redirect from Fountain of Trevi)
three streets". The statue is located right in the center of Via De' Crocicchi, Via Poli and Via Delle Muratte. The fountain was refurbished once in 1988...
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Suburanus Via Appia Via Ardeatina Via Asinaria Via Aurelia Via Cornelia Via Flaminia Via Labicana Via Lata Via Latina Via Laurentina Via Ostiensis Via Portuensis...
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Old St. Peter's Basilica (redirect from Old Basilica of Saint Peter)
elaborate chandeliers, and side tombs and altars were continuously added. The structure was filled with tombs and bodies of saints and popes. Bones continued...
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Aurelian Walls (redirect from Wall of Aurelian)
Laterano Porta Asinaria – here begins the old via Tuscolana Porta Metronia Porta Latina – here begins via Latina Porta San Sebastiano (Porta Appia) – here...
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soon found. The best discovery, that of pagan tombs exactly on the line of St Peter's tomb, was made in the presence of Grimaldi, 9 November 1616: On that...
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Metella Capo di Bove Tombs of Via Latina Villa of the Quintilii Villa dei Sette Bassi Parco degli Acquedotti Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography...
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Via dei Condotti) a new renovation commenced on 8 October 2015, with the steps being reopened to the public on 21 September 2016. The restoration of the...
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The seven hills of Rome (Latin: Septem colles/montes Romae, Italian: Sette colli di Roma [ˈsɛtte ˈkɔlli di ˈroːma]) east of the river Tiber form the geographical...
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Rome (redirect from History of the city of Rome)
Nicene Creed became the official religion of the empire in 380, via the Edict of Thessalonica issued in the name of three emperors – Gratian, Valentinian...
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Palatine Hill (category Seven hills of Rome)
etc.). The Palatine Hill is also the etymological origin (via the Latin adjective palatinus) of "palatine", a 16th-century English adjective that originally...
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Caelian Hill (category Seven hills of Rome)
Porta Latina Church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina Oratory of San Giovanni in Oleo Tomb of the Scipios Basilica of San Sisto Vecchio Basilica di Santo Stefano...
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Arch of Titus (Italian: Arco di Tito; Latin: Arcus Tītī) is a 1st-century AD honorific arch, located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the...
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Italy. It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the stadium in an elongated oval...
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Sistine Chapel (category Sites of papal elections)
Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli, created a series of frescos depicting the Life of Moses and the Life of Christ, offset by papal portraits above and trompe-l'œil...
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and around the tomb between 1660–62. At the time of its construction, the pyramid of Cestius would have stood in open countryside (tombs being forbidden...
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Victor Emmanuel II Monument (redirect from Monument of Victor Emmanuel II)
360-degree views of Rome. This terrace, which is the highest of the monument, can also be reached via 196 steps that start from the portico. The structure is...
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293–294 This is not to be confused with the Arch of Titus, built over the Via Sacra on the opposite side of the Palatine. Humphrey 1986, p. 74 Humphrey 1986...
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Servian Wall (category Walls of Rome)
which the via Appia left Rome to southern Italy after separating from the via Latina. Porta Naevia – this gate on the Aventine led to the via Ardeatina...
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Apollo Belvedere (redirect from Apollo of the Belvedere)
The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity...
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Bocca della Verità (redirect from Mouth of Truth)
of Truth (Italian: Bocca della Verità [ˈbokka della veriˈta]) is an ancient Roman marble mask in Rome, Italy, which stands against the left wall of the...
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