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Rosta is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Turin. Sights include the Abbey of Sant'Antonio di Ranverso. It was part of the comune of Rivoli until 1694. The comune is served by Rosta railway station on the Turin-Modane railway.
Ostra is a town and comune in the Marche, central Italy, near the modern Ostra Vetere, south-east of Senigallia. The modern town is founded near the site of ancient Ostra , a Roman settlement. Its name was later changed to Montalboddo , and reverted to Ostra in 1881.
Rostra (New Rostra, Rostra Augusti), platform from which politicians made their speeches to the Roman citizens; Umbilicus urbis Romae, the designated centre ("navel") of the city from which, and to which, all distances in Rome and the Roman Empire were measured (probably identical with the Mundus Cereris)
The Rostra (Italian: Rostri) was a large platform built in the city of Rome that stood during the republican and imperial periods. [1] Speakers would stand on the rostra and face the north side of the Comitium towards the senate house and deliver orations to those assembled in between.
Map of Italy and some of its major cities. The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000.The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3]
Erected in front of the Rostra and dedicated or rededicated in honour of the Eastern Roman Emperor Phocas on August 1, 608 AD, it was the last architectural addition made to the Forum Romanum, after over 1,300 years of construction.
The original Vulcanal was an open-air altar on the slopes of the Capitoline Hill in Rome in the area that would later become the Comitium and Roman Forum.It was located in the open here, between the hill-villages, in the days before Rome existed, because the fire god was considered to be too destructive to be located anywhere near an occupied house.
The Five-Columns monument is a dedicatory addition to the Rostra in the Roman Forum dating to the early fourth century CE. This monument was part of the Tetrarchy's expansion of the Forum and is connected to the tenth anniversary of the Caesares within the four-ruler system.