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Saxa Rubra Via Flaminia, Rome, 00188 | ![]() |
Saza Rubra lies at kilometre 13 on Via Flaminia shortly after the ring road. Many very important events took place here; ones that shaped the future of Rome. The most famous...
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Galleria Borghese 5 Piazzale Scipione Borghese, Rome, 00197 | ![]() |
I visited the Borghese Gallery during my stay in Rome on April 28th. Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of Bernini's work as well, but I didn't find this museum all that great or amazing. I did however enjoy being away fr... more
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Artissima 46 Corso Re Umberto, bis, Turin, 10128 | ![]() |
For 2006 Artissima Scientific Committee has involved artists such as Jeremy Deller, Francesco Vezzoli and Eric Van Lieshout, witnesses of the most recent tragedies of war like Gilles Saussier, Steve Mumford and Martha Ro... more
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Galleria degli Uffizi Piazzale degli Uffizi, 6, Florence, 50122 | ![]() |
Of course, we all know most of these masterpieces very well from reproductions - perhaps too well, because in many cases I found the "real thing" a big disappointment, the colours much more muted than I remembe... more
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Boboli Gardens Piazza de` Pitti, Florence, 50125 | ![]() |
I had the best time today at the Boboli gardens. I woke up early and decided to go to the gardens and see the Pitti Palace. I could have stayed there all day and just walked around. I did explore thearea and then I would... more
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Loggia dei Lanzi Piazza della Signoria, Florence, 50122 | ![]() |
Also called the Loggia della Signoria, the Loggia was named the Loggia dei Lanzi when the Duke Alessandro de'Medici made it the camp of the Lanzichenecchi after the fall of the Florentine Republic. It was the Signoria wh... more
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Cimitero Protestante 6 Via Caio Cestio, Rome, 00153 | ![]() |
By pontifical law, not only were non-Catholics barred from a church funeral and burial in hallowed ground, but their inhumation had to take place at night, by torchlight (ostensibly to avoid religiously-motivated hostile... more
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Piazza Bra Piazza Bra, 1, Verona, 37121 | ![]() |
This historic theater was built on the Via Roma, at one corner of the Piazza Bra, starting in 1716. For three decades it was the city's opera house, until it burned down (set on fire by a forgotten torch) on the night of... more
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Via del Governo Vecchio Via del Governo Vecchio, Rome, 00186 | ![]() |
Since it is on the route of the processions that used to run from Saint Peter's to San Giovanni in Laterano, this street was formerly known as Via Papalis. It was later renamed Via del Governo Vecchio because the residen... more
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Piazza Navona, Rome, 00186 | ![]() |
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by G.L.Bernini (1651)is acircularbasin holds a reef supporting an obelisk from the region of Domitian, as a lion and horse drink thirstily, alegorical statues of the rivers:Nile,Ganges,Danube an... more
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