Rome is my favourite city in the world. It's not an easy city to appreciate at first try, being noisy, dusty, and often hot and crowded. But in every trip I have made - over 20 years there must have been 100 - I have found something new to see or appreciate or learn...
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Rome is my favourite city in the world. It's not an easy city to appreciate at first try, being noisy, dusty, and often hot and crowded. But in every...
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The most famous church in the world, St Peters is one of four great papal basilicas in Rome, and the place of pilgrimage for all good Catholics - the...
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Rome’s oldest and most important basilica, San Giovanni in Laterano is still active and regarded as the mother church of the Catholic religion. As...
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The most famous symbol of Rome, despite the crowds and the touts still one of the world's greatest monuments.
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The Vatican Museums show world-renowned collections of ancient sculpture, medieval and Renaissance art. They include the Sistine Chapel, the Galleria...
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It is speculated that people may have lived in the area around this harbour town as far back as 1400 BC, but the Ostia Antica that we know today...
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This white marble sculpture, attributed to Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus and re-discovered in in 1506, is a famous depiction...
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The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, in the splendid Baroque Palazzo Barberini, forms part of Italy's national collection of ancient art. The...
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This famously and meticulously decorated chapel is best known for its Michelangelos and for being the site of the Papal conclaves where decisions...
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Nothing less than a global icon, Rome's noble Pantheon was built during the beginning of the 2nd Century and its powerful Classical architecture...
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The Roman Forum is a must visit site at any time of day - the ancient Roman market place, centre of Imperial power, location of the Senate (still...
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'The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical...
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Roman Holiday (Dir: William Wyler, 1953).
Via Margutta 51, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Most of the locations in ‘Roman Holiday’ are obvious, the Spanish...
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On the Capitoline Hill in Rome, the group of art and archeological museums is housed in three palazzi, laid out around the Piazza del Campidoglio, the...
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For a short while in the Middle Ages this was the seat of the Pope, before the Papacy moved into the Vatican, but in any case this remains a basilica...
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Breathtaking views and astounding stone fountain designs are enough to make Villa d’Este a must-see garden in Italy, but add to that its long history...
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