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Museo Nazionale Romano Viale Enrico De Nicola 79, Piazza dei Cinquecento, Rome, 00185 |
. The first, and IInd century A.D. copy of the original by Praxiteles, was found near the Baths of Trajan, by the Church of St. Peter in Chains, while the Aphrodite comes from Cyrene, in Libya, and represents a splendid ... more
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Sistine Chapel Viale Vaticano, Viale del Vaticano, Rome, 00165 |
Capitoline Museums 1 Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, 00186 |
The Capitoline Museums are divided into Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo. Reading the history from room to room will enhance your apprciation considerably. The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced... more
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The Vatican Viale Vaticano, Rome, 00165 |
Rome now is one of the grandest cities in the world. Millions of pilgrims and tourists come every year to admire, and be awed by, its treasures of architecture, art, and history. But is was not always this way. By the fo... more
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Palazzo Altemps Piazza San Apollinare 48, Rome, 00186 |
Containing some of the finest ancient Roman statues in the world, this collection formerly formed the core of the Museo Nazionale Romano. As of 1995, it was moved to these new, suitably grander digs. The palace's sober e... more
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Musei Vaticani Viale Vaticano, Rome, 00193 |
The series of four communicating rooms was a reconstruction carried out by Nicholas V (1447-55) of the thirteenth century palace of Nicholas III (1277-80). Towards the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century Per... more
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni 194 Via Nazionale, Rome, 00184 |
This palazzo with its statues and Corinthian columns, designed by Piacentini, hosts temporary exhibitions of paintings, sculpture and graphics, which are changed every three...
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Domus Aurea Via della Domus Aurea, Cancello Colle Oppio, Rome, 00184 |
The exterior setting of the Domus Aurea also reflected Nero’s particular mania for all things rural, incorporating such countryside elements as vineyards, orchards, vegetable gardens and parks, pastures and forests wit... more
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Villa Dei Quintili Via Appia Nuova, Rome, 1092 |
The Villa dei Quintili was the largest and most sumptuous residence of the Roman “suburbium”. The original nucleus belonged to the Quintili brothers, consuls in 151 A.D., and was enlarged when the villa becam... more
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Museo Barracco Via dei Baullari, Rome, 00186 |
- Collection. The Barracco Museum consists of a prestigious collection of antique sculpture (Assyrian, Egyptian, Cypriot, Phoenician, Etruscan, Greek and Roman art) which Giovanni Barracco, a rich Calabrese nobleman, don... more
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