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  2. Orient Express is opening a luxury hotel in Rome. Here ... - AOL

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    With 93 luxury rooms — including 36 suites, a rooftop bar and restaurant, and a Turkish Hammam — Orient Express La Minerva is aimed at sophisticated tourists and Romans alike, with rates ...

  3. Piazza della Minerva - Wikipedia

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    The elephant was known as "il pulcin della Minerva", or "porcino", from the Roman people's story that ― uninspired by elephants ― Bernini in fact sculpted a pig. To the right of the church stands the 16th century Palazzo Fonseca , since 1832 the site of one of the historic hotels of Rome, known as the Minerva , whose guests have included ...

  4. List of parks and gardens in Rome - Wikipedia

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    The gardens were probably on the Esquiline Hill, at the top of which Gallienus erected a colossal statue of himself [4] The 4th-century domed nymphaeum that survives, long miscalled a "Temple of Minerva Medica", seems to have been part of the gardens. The nymphaeum once mistakenly identified as the Temple of Minerva Medica. Gardens of Lucullus

  5. Santa Maria sopra Minerva - Wikipedia

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    Santa Maria sopra Minerva is one of the major churches of the Order of Preachers (also known as the Dominicans) in Rome, Italy.The church's name derives from the fact that the first Christian church structure on the site was built directly over (Italian: sopra) the ruins or foundations of a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, which had been erroneously ascribed to the Greco-Roman ...

  6. Portonaccio - Wikipedia

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    The Portonaccio Sanctuary of Minerva was the first Tuscan–type, i.e., Etruscan, temple erected in Etruria (about 510 BCE). [1] The reconstruction proposed for it in 1993 by Giovanni Colonna together with Germano Foglia, presents a square 60 feet (18 m) construction on a low podium (about 1.8 metres, considering the 29 cm foundation) and divided into a pronaos with two columns making up the ...

  7. Elephant and Obelisk - Wikipedia

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    The obelisk was rediscovered in 1665 during excavations near the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. It had probably been brought to Rome in the first century AD for the temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis that was located there. The obelisk is 5.47 meters tall and is the smallest of the 13 ancient obelisks present in Rome nowadays. [2]

  8. Temple of Minerva Medica (nymphaeum) - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Minerva Medica is a ruined nymphaeum of Imperial Rome which dates to the 4th century CE. It is located between the Via Labicana and Aurelian Walls and just inside the line of the Anio Vetus. [1] Once part of the Horti Liciniani on the Esquiline Hill, it now faces the modern Via Giolitti.

  9. Athena Giustiniani - Wikipedia

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    The Athena Giustiniani or Minerva Giustiniani is a Roman marble statue of Pallas Athena, based on a Greek bronze sculpture of the late 5th–early 4th century BCE. Formerly in the collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani , it is now in the Vatican Museums (inv. 2223).

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