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Via Vittorio Veneto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈviːa vitˈtɔːrjo ˈvɛːneto]), [1] colloquially called Via Veneto, is one of the most famous, elegant, and expensive streets of Rome, Italy. The street is named after the Battle of Vittorio Veneto (1918), a decisive Italian victory of World War I .
Map of the Aqua Alexandrina outside of Rome Aqua Alexandrina in Rome. The aqueduct was constructed in AD 226 as the last of the eleven ancient aqueducts of Rome.It was built under the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus to supply his enlargement of the Baths of Nero, which were renamed Thermae Alexandrinae.
Porta Settimiana, inside view. A passage of Livy, [1] that nonetheless does not mention the gate explicitly, could indicate that it was built during the monarchy; however, at that time there was no wall on the right bank of the Tiber (the first one was built in 87 BC), but just a fortress protecting Pons Sublicius; therefore the citation appears to be totally unreliable.
Alexandria's catacombs, known as Kom El Shoqafa, are a short distance southwest of the pillar, consist of a multi-level labyrinth, reached via a large spiral staircase and featuring dozens of chambers adorned with sculpted pillars, statues, and other syncretic Romano-Egyptian religious symbols, burial niches, and sarcophagi, as well as a large ...
Alexandria City Fire Station #203 is located at Cameron Mills Rd & Monticello Blvd and an Alexandria Police Satellite Facility borders North Ridge located at King St & W. Braddock Rd. On the edge of the community is a small shopping center called Fairlington anchored by a national-chain drug store and a Cadillac car dealership.
Features off the via were connected to the via by viae rusticae, or secondary roads. [9] Both main or secondary roads might either be paved or left unpaved with a gravel surface, as they were in North Africa. These prepared but unpaved roads were viae glareae or sternendae ("to be strewn"). Beyond the secondary roads were the viae terrenae ...
Palazzo Margherita, formerly Palazzo Piombino, is a palazzo on Via Veneto in Rome.The usual name references Queen Margherita of Savoy, who lived there from 1900 to 1926.. In 1885, the Boncompagni-Ludovisi family chose to sell their ancestral family home in response to a severe financial crisis.
The Café de Paris was a famous bar on Via Veneto, one of the best known and most expensive streets in Rome, Italy. It was located at No. 90, close to the United States Embassy. [ 1 ] The bar was immortalised in 1960 in the movie La Dolce Vita by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini , starring Anita Ekberg , Anouk Aimée and Marcello Mastroianni ...