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Rome, sensational examples of reuse of monuments and ancient structures

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 23 June 2020

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The city of Rome is a unique case in the world as it has been inhabited continuously for over 2700 years, and its monuments have been reused several...

Rome, the story of the arrangement of Piazza del Popolo and Pincian Hill

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 23 June 2020; LAZIO • ROMA • Roma

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For centuries, the entrance to Rome for those arriving from the north was through Porta Flaminia and Piazza del Popolo. The three roads of the...

Rome, the Pamphili family and the Roman Baroque

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 12 June 2020; LAZIO • ROMA • Roma

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In 1650, Pope Innocent X Pamphili launched a tender for the construction of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi. This pontiff had been elected in 1644...

Some curiosities about the ancient Roman Aqueducts

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 09 June 2020; LAZIO • ROMA • Roma

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Along with the roads, the aqueducts were the great engineering works with which the Romans amazed the world. From 312 BC they built eleven aqueducts...

Rome and the hidden villas of Villa Wolkonsky and Villa Abamelek

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 09 June 2020; LAZIO • ROMA • Roma

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There are several historic villas in Rome that are impossible or very difficult to access, and two of these are owned by foreign countries and...

The history of the Spanish Steps in Rome

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 08 June 2020; LAZIO • ROMA • Roma

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Piazza di Spagna is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful squares in the world, a masterpiece created over 150 years. The Sistino urban plan,...

Rome. The birth of Termini Station and Via Nazionale

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 08 June 2020; LAZIO • ROMA • Roma

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The great passions of Cardinal Francesco Saverio De Merode were weapons, urban planning and real estate speculation. And as has often happened in...

Sixtus V, Giacomo Della Porta and Domenico Fontana and the birth of the centre of Rome

: Neri; Category: Discover Rome; 08 June 2020; LAZIO • ROMA • Roma

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In the last decades of the sixteenth century Rome was completely transformed, especially for the work of three truly exceptional characters, one...

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