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The 5 most visited places in Rome are: #1 Pantheon (8 million tourists a year), #2 The Colosseum (7.036.104 tourists a year), #3 Trevi Fountain (3.5 million tourists a year), #4 Sistine Chapel (3 million tourists a year) and #5 The Roman Forum (2.5 million tourists a year). The study was conducted by the Ministero dei Beni e della Attivita ...
View of the Palatine Hill from across the Circus Maximus A schematic map of Rome showing the seven hills and the Servian Wall. The Palatine Hill (/ ˈ p æ l ə t aɪ n /; Classical Latin: Palatium; [1] Neo-Latin: Collis/Mons Palatinus; Italian: Palatino [palaˈtiːno]), which relative to the seven hills of Rome is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been ...
Ponte Sant'Angelo. Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), to span the Tiber from the city centre to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble ...
The Rome–Naples high-speed railway line is one of the railways in the Italian high-speed rail network. Initially opened in December 2005, it is the first railway line in Italy to be electrified at 25 kV AC (instead of traditional 3 kV DC ) and the first in the world to use ETCS Level 2 in normal rail operations.
Roma San Pietro railway station ( Italian: Stazione di Roma San Pietro) is a major station serving the city and comune of Rome, Italy. Opened in 1894, the station forms part of the Pisa–Livorno–Rome railway. It is also the junction for the short, single track Rome–Vatican City railway, which crosses into Vatican City after passing over a ...
Many Starbucks locations are open 24/7. Starbucks has 38,000 shops around the world. Waffle House: Founded in 1955 with a single location in Avondale Estates, Georgia, Waffle House now has more ...
Founded. 13 BC. The Theatre of Marcellus ( Latin: Theatrum Marcelli, Italian: Teatro di Marcello) is an ancient open-air theatre in Rome, Italy, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic. At the theatre, locals and visitors alike were able to watch performances of drama and song. Today its ancient edifice in the rione of Sant'Angelo ...
The six-hour clock ( Italian: sistema orario a sei ore ), also called the Roman ( alla romana) or the Italian ( all'italiana) system, is a system of date and time notation in Italy which was invented before the modern 24-hour clock. In this system, the day starts at the evening, at the end of twilight, approximately half an hour after sunset ...