When the ancient Romans built their temples, they often built a tall staircase to the front to protect the building from frequent floods of the Tiber River. The Pantheon was no exception. It's hard...
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When the ancient Romans built their temples, they often built a tall staircase to the front to protect the building from frequent floods of the Tiber River. The Pantheon was no exception. It's hard...
Advice to anyone about to take a trip is don't expect to remember all that you see in the Museums. Like many, you will get brain ache after being overloaded with so much visual stimulus and begin to...
The Vatican is home of ‘The Holy See’ and residence of the Pope. This spectacular enclave within Rome is both a city and a state, which welcomes travellers on pilgrimage to the spiritual centre of the
Constructed between 1110 and 1130, this church of San Clemente is not one, but three churches built one above the other, with ruins dating from the earliest Christian times.
Certainly the most famous and photographed fountain in Rome, legend has it that whoever throws a coin into the pond will return to Rome.
One of seven pilgrimage basilicas in the world, this church was founded in 432 AD and is where the famous architect Bernini is buried.
This palace was built by Gregory XIII in 1574 as a summer residence, which serves today as the residence of Italy's president.
Literally less than a block away from the Pantheon sits the only Gothic church in all of Rome, the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. It houses Michelango's Christ the Reedemer statue, finished in 1521...
This Renaissance church contains Baroque additions along with various 18th- and 19th-century monuments, which add to the beauty of this structure.
The famous painter Caravaggio (1573-1610) was commissioned to paint for this church, where in one of its chapels is his realistic naturalism in three scenes of the life of St. Matthew.
Roman palace worth visiting for its splendor and collection of art, especially its gigantic ceiling fresco of clouds and swirling figures by Italian painter-architect Pietro da Cortona.
Known to be the first church in Christendom, this church belongs to the Vatican and has the privileges of extraterritoriality.