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Anzio (/ ˈ æ n z i oʊ /, [4] [5] also US: / ˈ ɑː n t s i oʊ /; [6] Italian:) is a town and comune on Lazio coast [] region of Italy, about 51 kilometres (32 mi) south of Rome.. Well known for its seaside resorts, it is a fishing port and a departure point for ferries and hydroplanes to the Pontine Islands of Ponza, Palmarola, and Ventotene.
Nereo Cave (Italian: Grotta di Nereo; Catalan: Cova de Nereu) is a huge underwater sea-cave situated on the north-west of Sardinia in the Coral riviera of Alghero, Italy.The name was given by the discoverers in honour of the mythological figure Nereus, who is often billed as the Old Man of the Sea, father of the Nereids. [1]
Main concentration of Italian caves (Italian: grotte, singular: grotta) is close to the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, principally due to karst. [1] The Italian caves attract around 1.5 million tourists every year. [2] The main Italian tourist caves are Castellana Caves and Frasassi Caves.
Rome’s next luxury hotel has some very good bones: Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have ...
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37 in Antium (modern Anzio), eight months after the death of Tiberius. [3] [4] He was an only-child, the son of the politician Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger.
This room also contains the Fasti Antiates, i.e., two frescoed panels found near Nero's Villa at Anzio, dating to the period 88 to 55 BCE and containing the Roman calendar of Numa Pompilius, which preceded the reform of Gaius Julius Caesar, including Roman festivals and a list of the main magistracies, such as that of consuls and censors from ...
Construction began after the great fire of 64 and was nearly completed before Nero's death in 68, a remarkably short time for such an enormous project. [4] Nero took great interest in every detail of the project, according to Tacitus, [5] and oversaw the engineer-architects, Celer and Severus, who were also responsible for the attempted navigable canal with which Nero hoped to link Misenum ...
Pons Neronianus on a map of ancient Rome around 300 AD. There is no direct evidence that Nero actually built the bridge named after him. [2] It may well have been named the 'Bridge of Nero' because the area on the right bank of the Tiber beyond the bridgehead was still named the "Plain(s) of Nero" well into the Medieval period, so that the inhabitants of Rome at that time, not knowing the ...