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 TEMPLE FO VENUS & ROME
This is the greatest temple of the ancient Rome; its dimensions are 145m x 100m. It was erected by Hadrian and, as the legend says, by his own project strongly influenced by Greek architecture, in 121 A.D., to honor the main divinities of the empire:...
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 TEMPLE OF ANTONINUS & FAUSTINA
The temple was built in honor of the dying wife of emperor, Faustina, and in 161 A.D; after the death of Antoninus, it was dedicated to both of them, as this couple was deified. In the 7th century it was transformed in a church. But in 1536 the eleme...
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 TEMPLE OF CASTOR AND POLLUX
It was built in 484 b.C. by the dictator Aulus Postumius in honor of the twin heroes Castor and Pollux, whose miraculous appearance at the battle of Lake Regillus in 496 b.C. brought victory to the Romans. The site for the temple was chosen close to ...
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 TEMPLE OF CESARE
Close to the Temple of Vesta, on the site where the body of murdered Julius Caesar was cremated, the Senate erected an altar. In 29 b.C. Octavian (Augustus) dedicated a newly built temple. It was a little construction on a podium, decorated with the ...
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 TEMPLE OF CLAUDIUS
The 4th wife of Claudius, Agrippina, decided to erect a temple in the honor of her husband who died in A.D. 54 and then deified. Her son emperor Nero interrupted the works and built on its site a nympheum from where the water supplied by aqueduct of ...
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 TEMPLE OF ERCOLE VINCITORE
This is the most ancient marble temple in Rome; it has circular plan surrounded by 20 Corinthian columns. The temple was built in the end of the 2nd century b.C. It was used as a church with the name S.Stefano delle Carrozze, and later, S.Maria del S...
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 TEMPLE OF PORTUNUS
This temple was also ironically named "of Fortuna Virilis". Portunus is a divinity of the river port which once was located in this zone. The temple was erected in the 6th century b.C., but its present look dates from the 2nd century b.C.. It is a fi...
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 TEMPLE OF ROMOLO
It is a little octagonal construction which should be recognized as the Temple of the Suffered, rather than the temple which emperor Maxentius dedicated to the memory of his son Romulus who died in 309 and buried on Via Appia. The bronze door is orig...
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 TEMPLE OF SATURN
It was one of the most ancient and venerated temples of the Republican Rome, the Saturnian rites were celebrated here, and the treasure of the State was conserved under the podium; that is why it was also called Aerarium. The Temple was built in 497 ...
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 TEMPLES OF VESPASIAN, CONCORD, AND ASSENTING GODS
Three white marble Corinthian columns made part of the Temple of Vespasian erected in memory of the emperor after his death in 79 A.D. by two sons Titus and Domitian, and two years later after the death of Titus, dedicated to him as well. On the base...
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 TOWER OF FRANGIPANE
This tower was also named Torre della Moletta (Tower of little Mill) because of a water mill existed here in the Middle Ages, which used the Acqua Mariana, which came from the Porta Metronia through the Circus Maximus in direction of Tiber. The tower...
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 TOWER OF THE MILIZIE
This tower is a significant piece of civil architecture of medieval Rome; it was erected by the Conti family at the turn of the 13th c., and later purchased by Pope Boniface VIII, who fortified it as protection from the Colonna family. The earthquake...
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 TRASTEVERE
The area of Trastevere is ideal for a walk through narrow streets, squares and colours that still maintain an authentically Roman character and offers a pleasant contrast with the solemn splendour seen at the Vatican. In antiquity Trastevere – “beyon...
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