TRAVEL IDEAS - ROME
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ROME's TOURIST HIGHLIGHTS
CHURCHES
St Peters
Pantheon
Santa Maria in Trastevere
San Giovanni in Laterano
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
San Clemente
Santa Maria Maggiore
Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
Santa Maria in Cosmedin
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
Sistine Chapel
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Piazza Navona
Roman Forum
Trevi Fountain
Raphael Rooms
Spanish Steps
Colosseum
Capitoline Museums
Castel Sant'Angelo
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
Vatican Museum
Galleria SpadaCapitoline Museums
Palazzo Barberini
Museo e Galleria Borghese
Palazzo Venezia
Palazzo Corsini
Galleria Spada
Villa Giulia
FOUNTAINS
Trevi Fountain
Fontana delle Tartarughe
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Piazza del Popolo
Piazza San Pietro
Fontana della Barcaccia
Fontana delle Naiadi
Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano
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THE COLOSSEUM
The Building was commissioned in 72AD by Vespasian and inaugurated by sacrificing 5000 animals, fights between gladiators and animals were held here for the pleasure of the common people. A magnificent work of architectural engineering it is 188 metres x 156 metres, the facade 48.5 metres high and the 80 arches serving as an entrance for the 55000 spectators it could accommodate
PARTHENON
Built by Marcus Agrippa before the birth of Christ in honor of
Augustus it was later restructured around 120 AD. The Partheon
is the most imposing complete building surviving from antiquity,
its preservation because from 609AD it was converted into a church
and cherished by the pontiffs. The building mixes varying geometrical
shapes - square, sphere, and cylinder, and fuses two architectural
styles, the style typical of the temples, and that of the thermal
baths. The dome is 43.30 metres high and wide.
Saint
Peter's
Giovanni Paolo Panini
The cRowning feature of St Peter's is the dome by Michelangelo
which is visible from every part of the city. 537 steps and from
the top you can enjoy a view of Rome. Inside the Basilica is over
210 metres long and the dome is 136 metres high. Most important
is the Pieta by Michelangelo - the only work signed by him, also
the Baldachin by Bernini - a gigantic baroque structure upheld
by spiral pillars. Placed over the papal high altar and the Tomb
of St Peter, its 99 lights are kept permanently lit to illuminate
the tomb of St Peter..
Pietà
1499
Michelangelo
Sculptured when
the artist was not yet 25 years old for the jubilee of 1500AD,
it is the only work signed by the artist. Pieta, Italian for Pity
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel was built at the end of the 15th century by
Giovanni Dolci. Its walls are frescoed with 12 paintings by Perugino,
Pinturicchio, Botticelli, Signorelli and Ghirlandaio, and the
greatest masterpiece being the frescoes of the vaults painted
by Michelangelo for Pope Julius 11 between 1508 and 1512. The
restoration of the ceiling between 1985 and 1989 revealed pure
color, which caused doubts and incredulity which is still discussed.
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