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The Flavian Amphitheater, more commonly known as the Colosseum, stands in the archaeological heart of the city of Rome and welcomes a large number of visitors every day, attracted by the charm of its history and its complex architecture. The building, known as the Colosseum due to a colossal statue that once stood nearby, it was built in the 1st century AD at the behest of the emperors of the Flavian dynasty, and hosted, until the end of the ancient age, shows of great popular appeal, such as hunts and gladiatorial games. The building was, and remains to this day, a spectacle in itself, as it is the largest amphitheater in the world.

Colosseum

The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762 and several others.

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Trevi Fountain

The Pantheon is a former Roman temple and, since 609 AD, a Catholic church in Rome, Italy. It was built on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus, then after that burnt down, the present building was ordered by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated c. 126 AD.&nbsp;

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Pantheon

The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope&#39;s official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481.&nbsp;

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Sistine Chapel

The Vatican Museums are the public museums of Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.&nbsp;

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Vatican Museums

The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.&nbsp;

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Roman Forum

Piazza Navona&nbsp;is a&nbsp;public open space&nbsp;in&nbsp;Rome,&nbsp;Italy. It is built on the site of the&nbsp;Stadium of Domitian, built in the 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.The&nbsp;ancient Romans&nbsp;went there to watch the&nbsp;agones&nbsp;(&quot;games&quot;), and hence it was known as &quot;Circus Agonalis&quot; (&quot;competition arena&quot;). It is believed that over time the name changed to&nbsp;in avone&nbsp;to&nbsp;navone&nbsp;and eventually to&nbsp;navona.

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Piazza Navona

Built as the mausoleum of the emperor Publius Aelius Trajan Hadrian (76-138 AD) and a dynastic sepulcher for the Antonini family, first with the emperor Aurelian and then with Honorius, the imposing mass was included in the walls of Rome and transformed in a sort of fortress for the defense of the city.For these prerogatives, since then, it acquired the name of castellum, to which was added, in the early Middle Ages, that of sancti Angeli from the legend of the vision of the Archangel Michael who the sword to bear witness to the end of the plague.

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Castel Sant'Angelo

The Galleria Borghese is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction.&nbsp;

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Borghese Gallery and Museum

The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, or church of Santa Maria Maggiore, is a Major papal basilica as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the largest Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy.&nbsp;

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Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore

The Janiculum, occasionally known as the Janiculan Hill, is a hill in western Rome, Italy. Although it is the second-tallest hill in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city.&nbsp;

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Janiculum Hill

The Fontana dell&#39;Acqua Paola also known as Il Fontanone or Mostra dell&#39;Acqua Paola is a monumental fountain located on the Janiculum Hill, near the church of San Pietro in Montorio, in Rome, Italy. It was built in 1612 to mark the end of the Acqua Paola aqueduct, restored by Pope Paul V, and took its name from him.&nbsp;

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Fontana dell'Acqua Paola

The Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere; English: Our Lady in Trastevere is a titular minor basilica in the Trastevere district of Rome, and one of the oldest churches of Rome. The basic floor plan and wall structure of the church date back to the 340s, and much of the structure to 1140&ndash;43.&nbsp;

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Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy, in the Trastevere rione, devoted to the Roman martyr Saint Cecilia.&nbsp;

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Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

The Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy, climb a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinit&agrave; dei Monti, dominated by the Trinit&agrave; dei Monti church, at the top.&nbsp;

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Spanish Steps

The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument, also known as Vittoriano or Altare della Patria, is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome, Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill.&nbsp;

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Monument to Victor Emmanuel II

The Archbasilica Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in the Lateran (Italian: Arcibasilica del Santissimo Salvatore e dei Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano), also known as the Papal Archbasilica of Saint John [in] Lateran, Saint John Lateran, or the Lateran Basilica, is the Catholic cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome in the city of Rome, and serves as the seat of the bishop of Rome, the pope.

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Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano

Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means &quot;People&#39;s Square&quot;, but historically it derives from the poplars after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name.&nbsp;

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Piazza del Popolo

The Domus Aurea was a vast landscaped complex built by the Emperor Nero largely on the Oppian Hill in the heart of ancient Rome after the great fire in 64 AD had destroyed a large part of the city. It replaced and extended his Domus Transitoria that he had built as his first palace complex on the site.&nbsp;

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Domus Aurea

The Palazzo Colonna is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, Italy, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli. It is built in part over the ruins of an old Roman serapeum, and it has belonged to the prominent Colonna family for over twenty generations.&nbsp;

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Galleria Colonna Museo e Pinacoteca

Basilica San Clemente is both a working Roman Catholic of the Irish Dominican friars and also an archeological site of exceptional historic, religious, artistic, cultural political significance. Its activities, and opening hours, can be distinguished between access to the Basilica (which is always free) and access to the archeological excavations (purchase of a ticket is required).

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Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano

The Capitoline Museums are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.&nbsp;

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Capitoline Museums

The Baths of Diocletian were public baths in ancient Rome. Named after emperor Diocletian and built from AD 298 to 306, they were the largest of the imperial baths.&nbsp;

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National Museum of Rome - Baths of Diocletian

15th-century palace housing Renaissance artworks &amp; antiquities, Greek &amp; Roman sculptures &amp; library. - Google

National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Altemps

Archeological &amp; medieval museum, part of the National Museum of Rome, on site of an ancient theater. - Google

National Museum of Rome - Crypta Balbi

The Gardens of Vatican City, also informally known as the Vatican Gardens in Vatican City, are private urban gardens and parks which cover more than half of the country, located in the west of the territory and owned by the Pope.&nbsp;

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Gardens of Vatican City

The Circus Maximus is an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue in Rome, Italy. In the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire.&nbsp;

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Circus Maximus

The Zoological Gardens play a fundamental role in guaranteeing the conservation in nature of species threatened with extinction. To this end, the Bioparc is a member of EAZA - European Union of Zoos and Aquariums - and of WAZA - World Union of Zoos and Aquariums - and collaborates internationally with many institutions engaged in the conservation of endangered species. The Bioparc pursues the conservation of endangered species through awareness-raising actions, adherence to international conservation campaigns and European captive breeding programs.

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Bioparco di Roma

Palazzo Barberini is one of the two headquarters of the National Galleries of Ancient Art. The palace was purchased in 1949 by the heirs of the family and since 1953 it has housed in the monumental rooms a collection of works from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, with absolute masterpieces such as the Annunciation by Filippo Lippi, Raphael&#39;s Fornarina and Caravaggio&#39;s Judith and Holofernes.Palazzo Barberini is, after all, the emblem of the Roman Baroque.A real palace commissioned by Pope Urban VIII and entrusted to the main artists of the seventeenth century: Carlo Maderno, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, who created the extraordinary ceiling with the Triumph of Divine Providence in the main hall.

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National Gallery of Ancient Art in Barberini Palace

The Ara Pacis is being returned to the public after a long period of inaccessibility, dictated by the necessary works to create the most suitable conditions for the long-term conservation of the monument. An examination of the altar carried out in the 1990s revealed its conditions so worrying as to push the Municipal Administration to make such an important commitment: to replace the display case based on a Morpurgo idea in 1938 because it was completely insufficient to protect the precious monument of the Augustan age from dust, exhaust fumes, vibrations, sudden changes in temperature and humidity, and make the Ara Pacis a museum according to the most modern conservation criteria.

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Museo dell'Ara Pacis

The Mamertine Prison, in antiquity the Tullianum, was a prison with a dungeon located in the Comitium in ancient Rome. It is said to have been built in the 7th century BC and was situated on the northeastern slope of the Capitoline Hill, facing the Curia and the imperial fora of Nerva, Vespasian, and Augustus.&nbsp;

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Mamertine Prison

Largo di Torre Argentina is a large open space in Rome, Italy, with four Roman Republican temples and the remains of Pompey&#39;s Theatre. It is in the ancient Campus Martius. The name of the square comes from the Torre Argentina, which takes its name from the city of Strasbourg whose Latin name was Argentoratum.&nbsp;

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Largo di Torre Argentina

Ostia Antica was an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber River. It is near modern Ostia, 25 kilometres southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, the site now lies 3 km from the sea. The name Ostia derives from Latin os &#39;mouth&#39;.&nbsp;

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Ostia Antica

The Villa d&#39;Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.&nbsp;

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