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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 ...
Reconstructed Porta Praetoria at Porolissum, Roman Dacia (modern Romania). Roman castra in Romania were forts built by the Roman army following the conquests of Moesia, Scythia Minor and Dacia, parts of which are now found in the territory of modern Romania.
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. Pepe [3] will be hosting the show, with Roxana Ionescu and Roxana Vancea. [4] The judges were Anda Adam, Daniel Buzdugan, and Cătălin Preda. [5]
"Moses Gaster și colecția sa de povești populare ale țiganilor din România" [Moses Gaster and His Collection of Romanian Gypsies' Folk Tales]. Anuarul Muzeului Etnografic al Moldovei [The Yearly Review of the Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia] (in Romanian). 18: 305– 324. ISSN 1583-6819. Pavelčík, Nina; Pavelčík, Jiří (2001).
Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome.The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name.
The National Register of Historic Monuments (Romanian: Lista Monumentelor Istorice (LMI)) is the official English name of the Romania government's list of national heritage sites known as Monumente istorice.
One of the most recognizable and iconic monuments in the city, the Trevi Fountain was designed and completed in the 18th century. Tourists come to the fountain in order to throw a coin, which is, according to a local legend, supposed to bring good luck. It was also famous for having featured in a major scene of Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce ...
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 ...