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The Palace of Justice (Italian: Palazzo di Giustizia), colloquially nicknamed il Palazzaccio ('the Awful Palace'), is the seat of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Judicial Public Library of Italy. It is located in the Prati district of Rome, facing Piazza dei Tribunali, Via Triboniano, Piazza Cavour, and Via Ulpiano.
Cloaca Maxima: article in Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome; Pictures taken from inside the Cloaca Maxima; Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome, Katherine W. Rinne; The Waters of Rome: "The Cloaca Maxima and the Monumental Manipulation of Water in Archaic Rome" by John N. N. Hopkins
The Etruscan deity Cloacina may have been associated originally with the small brook which marked the boundary between the Sabines on the Quirinal Hill and Romans on the Palatine Hill and later became the city's Cloaca Maxima. Two important episodes from Rome's founding are said to have taken place at this shrine, including the purification of ...
The Cloaca Circi Maximi was built in the Augustan Period to clear Rome of unhealthy bodies of water. [2] It was originally a small stream fed by various sources from around the Porta Capena right through the valley between the Palatine Hill and Aventine Hill, running down to the river Tiber. [3]
This "greatest sewer" of Rome was originally built to drain the low-lying land around the Forum. Some scholars believe that there is not sufficient evidence to accurately determine the effectiveness of the Cloaca Maxima. However other scholars believe that one million pounds of human feces and water was transported through the Cloaca Maxima. [2 ...
Denarius of L. Mussidius Longus (42 BC) showing Concordia on the obverse, and two statues within the balustrade of the shrine of Venus Cloacina on the reverse [1]. Cloacina was a goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drain'), the main interceptor discharge outfall of the system of sewers in Rome.
The Palazzo della Consulta (built 1732–1737) is a late Baroque palace in central Rome, Italy; since 1955, it houses the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic.It sits across the Piazza del Quirinale from the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, the Quirinal Palace.
The Curia Julia (Latin: Curia Iulia) is the third named curia, or senate house, in the ancient city of Rome.It was built in 44 BC, when Julius Caesar replaced Faustus Cornelius Sulla's reconstructed Curia Cornelia, which itself had replaced the Curia Hostilia.