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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. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide, [ 2] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city ...
The most famous Roman fountains of this period include: The Fountains of St. Peter's Square, by Carlo Maderno (1614) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1677) were made to complement the lavish Baroque facade Maderno designed for St. Peter's Basilica. The Maderno fountain was built on the site of an earlier fountain from 1490, and used the same lower basin.
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 ...
Coordinates: 41°53′56″N 12°28′23″E. / 41.89889°N 12.47306°E / 41.89889; 12.47306. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi ( Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as ...
Fontana dell'Acqua Felice. / 41.90436°N 12.49442°E / 41.90436; 12.49442. The Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, also called the Fountain of Moses, [1] is a monumental fountain located in the Quirinale District of Rome, Italy. It marked the terminus of the Acqua Felice aqueduct restored by Pope Sixtus V. It was designed by Domenico Fontana and ...
Map from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1] This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain . The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.
The Appian Way, one of the oldest and most important Roman roads The Roman Empire in the time of Hadrian (r. 117–138), showing the network of main Roman roads. Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae [ˈwiae̯ roːˈmaːnae̯]; singular: via Romana [ˈwia roːˈmaːna]; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from ...
Hadrian's Villa(Italian: Villa Adriana; Latin: Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Sitecomprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villacomplex built around AD 120 by Roman emperorHadriannear Tivolioutside Rome. It is the most imposing and complex Roman villa known. The complex contains over 30 monumental and scenic ...