Rome: one city to discover

Mail on a group of heights on the rivers of the Tevere (in origin, on seven necks: Palatino, Campidoglio, Aventino, Celio, Esquilino, Viminale, Quirinale; then extended on Pincio, Gianicolo, Vatican and Mario Mount), to 23 Km from the Sea, comprende City of the Vatican.
The condition of center of the Cristianità, the beauty of monuments, the fascination of its past, the mitezza of the climate, of it makes one of the cities more visited of the world.

Arc of Costantino

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E' the more important of arches prevails them roman. Raised in order to celebrate the Victoria of Costantino emperor on Massenzio. It was constructed in the 313 d.C.

Colosseo

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Wonderful architectonic complex that does not find examples in the roman art. Its true name is Flavio Amphitheater. It was constructed in the 72 d.C. from disowned architect.

Pantheon

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Huge considered monument a capolavoro of the roman architecture. E' one of antichi monuments better conserved of the world. It was made to construct from Agrippa consul in the 27 a.C.

Campidoglio

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E' one of the architectonic spaces more interesting than Rome. All the complex of the public square and the buildings that encircle it was realized on plan of Michelangelo in the five hundred.

Basilica of S. Peter

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E' the greatest church of the world dominated from the imposing michelangiolesca cupola. It was founded in the 324 from Costantino. In the 1506 they began the jobs that, on plan of Coveting, transformed it in put into effect them basilica.

Castel S.Angelo

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It was made to erect from Adrian emperor like its mausoleo, in the 130 d. C. and received the empty ones of the members of the imperial dynasty until Caracalla.

Fontana of Trevi

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E' most famous Fontana than Rome, work of the architect Knows to you that it realized it in 1735 under pontificato of Clement XII. considered E' one of the beautifulst Fontanas of the world. The palace that ago they give background to Fontana is that one of the Duchi di Poli.

Public square of the People

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Devised from the Valadier to beginning dell ' 800, it is considered like one of the best works urban planning of the city.

Public square of Spain

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One of the known and evocative places more than characterized Rome e' from the great perron of Trinità of Mounts .

Terme di Caracalla

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Said also Antoniane C. and the 217 were built up between the 212 d. d. C. from Caracalla Emperor.

Palace of the Quirinale

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Of remarkable grandiosità it was papal center, then divenne official residence of the real ones of Italy, and finally of the President of the Republic.

Traianei Markets

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It considers in the antiquity one you of the wonders of the world classic, today show only one small part of their splendor. The great complex of 150 premises was planned in II the century d.C. from Apollodoro of Damascus for Traiano.

Saint Greater Maria

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The basilica was erected in IV the century but it has endured in the course of the numerous years participations and rifacimenti. The building introduces therefore various architectonic styles, puts into effect to you in its secular history.

Monument to VittorioEmanuele II

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Huge monument built up in 1885 on plan of architect G. Sacconi in order to celebrate the cinquantenario of the Reign of Italy.

Roman Hole

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Symbol of the antiquity was the nucleus of the roman civilization, the center of the legal and social political life of the ancient Rome.