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Types Building Period Description Picture Basilica: St Peter's Basilica: 16th century: Found in the Vatican City, it is near where the Pope resides, and is one of the most important centres for Christian pilgrimage, and commonly regarded as the "home of the Roman Catholic Church", where St Peter set up the first Christian Church.
Surrounded by palazzi with large porticoes in the 19th-century style, the piazza was built by Gaetano Koch shortly after the unification of Italy.Umbertine in style, it is the largest piazza in Rome (316 x 174 metres). [1]
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762 [1] and several others.
For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which fed 39 monumental fountains and 591 public basins, not counting the water supplied to the Imperial ...
Fontana dell'Acqua Paola (detail) The Fontana dell'Acqua Paola was inspired by the popularity of the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, built in 1585–1588 by Pope Sixtus V.Pope Paul V decided to rebuild and extend the ruined Acqua Traiana aqueduct built by the Emperor Trajan in order to create a source of clean drinking water for the residents of the Janiculum Hill, who were forced to take their ...
Splash! Vedete la Apă [1] is a Romanian reality television show that teaches celebrities the art of diving. [2] The first series was premiered on 7 July 2013, and was broadcast by Antena 1.
Via Appia Via Ostiensis Via Sacra. Alta Semita; Argiletum; Clivus Argentarius; Clivus Capitolinus; Clivus Palatinus; Clivus Scauri; Clivus Suburanus; Via Appia; Via Ardeatina; Via Asinaria
Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, [1] near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica) that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's ...