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 VATICAN MUSEUMS
Visitors to the Vatican Museums have before them one of the finest art collections in the world. It was built up over centuries through the artistic, dynastic and religious ambitions of the popes and has now grown into a museum complex of unrivalled ...
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 VIA DEI CORONARI
The tract of this beautiful Renaissance street is nearly 500m long and leads from Piazza Navona to the Tiber. It partially repeats the line of so called Via Recta, which in the imperial epoch connected ancient Via Lata and the bridge Ponte di Nerone....
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 VIA DEI CONDOTTI
It follows the tract of previous Via Trinitatis laid out by Paul III in the 2nd half of the 16th century. It was longer than Via Condotti because reached the Tiber. The name "condotti" derives from the conduits (=condotti) of an aqueduct Acqua Vergin...
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 VIA DEL BABUINO
It was laid out by Clement VII for the Jubilee of 1525, and developed by Paul III after whom the street bore the name Via Paola for a number of years. The present name derives from a statue of Silen, which belonged to a fountain that was placed here ...
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 VIA DEL CORSO
This is the most famous street of Rome, which at present is a busy traffic way unfortunately leaving no space for crowds of tourists and Romans. It is a straight and fairly narrow street, nearly 1.5km long, connecting Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Ven...
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 VIA DELLE QUATTRO FONTANE
It is part of the street laid out by Sixtus V with the name Via Felice (it derives from the name of the Pope Felice Peretti). The name "Quattro Fontane" was given to it after the composition of four fountains located in the crossing point between thi...
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 VIA DI S. GREGORIO
This street was laid out over the tract of ancient Via Triumphalis, between Celian and Palatine Hills. Its present look was created in the 30's of the 20th century, when the old Via di S.Gregorio, arranged with the trees bordering it in 1835 by Grego...
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 VIA GIULIA
It was the first and longest street of Rome built as a rectilinear tract. It is nearly one kilometer long, and was laid out by Bramante in the beginning of the 16th century at the order of Pope Julius II, who gave it his name. Practically it had to b...
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 VIA MARGUTTA
The street was developed in the middle of the 16th century and always was a street where artists, especially Flemish and Dutch, lived. Here at number 53 Thomas Lawrence, a portrait painter, founded the British Academy of Arts in 1821. It is still a s...
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 VIA PORTA S. SEBASTIANO
At present, it is a busy street with fast traffic, which, as everywhere in Rome, destroys the atmosphere of history and beauty. On both sides of the street there are gardens, most of them are private and closed to public, ancient doorways, ruins and ...
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 VIA RIPETTA
It was laid out in 1518 by the order of Leo X and with supervision of Raphael and A.da Sangallo. The pope wanted it to be the straight road connecting Porta del Popolo and the most populated zones of the city in direction of Vatican. The name derives...
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 VIA SACRA
This is the oldest street in Rome, and it crosses the whole of the Forum. According to a legend the peace treaty between Romulus and Titus Tatius, Sabine king, was signed on it. The oldest part of the street lays between the Tempio di Castore e Pollu...
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 VIA SACRA (HOLY STREET)
This is the oldest street in Rome, and it crosses the whole of the Forum. According to a legend the peace treaty between Romulus and Titus Tatius, Sabine king, was signed here. The oldest part of the street lays between the Temple of Castor & Pollux ...
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 VIA VITTORIA
The origins of the name of this street are uncertain. It is noted for being a place of Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia, which was completely rearranged by Italian State in 1875. It went out of a Congregation of musicians of Rome, which protector was...
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 VILLA BORGHESE PARK
This villa occupies the territory of 78 hectares and its circumference is 6 km. It was created by cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of pope Paul V. The architects were F.Ponzio and G.Vasanzio. Notable enlargement and rearrangement of the villa took ...
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 VILLA CELIMONTANA
Previously it was Villa dei Mattei, dukes of Giove, acquired in 1553 by Giacomo and arranged by Ciriaco Mattei. The latter created gardens and picked a collection of ancient marbles; he had G.Del Duca building a house in 1581-1586 and finally obtaine...
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 VILLA D'ESTE (TIVOLI)
Villa d'Este, masterpiece of the Italian Garden, is included in the UNESCO world heritage list. With its impressive concentration of fountains, nymphs, grottoes, plays of water, and music, it constitutes a much-copied model for European gardens in th...
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 VILLA FARNESINA
This graceful Renaissance Villa was built by B.Peruzzi in 1508-1520, as the suburban residence of rich banker Agostino Chigi, patron of Raphael. Here he entertained pope Leo X, cardinals, ambassadors, princes, artists and men of letters. At a celebra...
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 VILLA MEDICI
It was built on the site of ancient Villa di Lucullo, property of Empress Messalina, a wife of Emperor Claudius. In the 5th century it became property of the Acili and of the Anici families. It was reconstructed by A.Lippi for the cardinal Ricci di M...
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