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Piazza del Campidoglio ("Capitoline Square") is a public square (piazza) on the top of the ancient Capitoline Hill, between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy.
Gismondi's scale model of the Capitoline Hill under Constantine, Museum of Roman Civilization A schematic map of Rome showing the Seven Hills and the Servian Wall. The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill (/ ˈ k æ p ɪ t ə l aɪ n, k ə ˈ p ɪ t-/ KAP-it-ə-lyne, kə-PIT-; [1] Italian: Campidoglio [kampiˈdɔʎʎo]; Latin: Mons Capitolinus [ˈmõːs kapɪtoːˈliːnʊs]), between the Forum and ...
Found in the Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitol Hill, the square and the museums were designed by Michelangelo in 1471. Today, they mainly host ancient Roman and Greek sculptures and works of art. The Piazza del Campidoglio is renowned for its symmetrical Renaissance architecture, and also hosts the Rome city hall. Public monument
By order of Pope Paul III, it was moved to the Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill) during Michelangelo's redesign of the hill in 1538, to remove it from the main traffic of the square. [7] Though Michelangelo disagreed with the central positioning, he designed a pedestal for it. [1]
The Capitoline Museums (Italian: Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, facing on the central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo in 1536 and executed over a period of more than 400 years.
San Marco is a minor basilica in Rome dedicated to Saint Mark the Evangelist located in the small Piazza di San Marco adjoining Piazza Venezia.It was first built in 336 by Pope Mark, whose remains are in an urn located below the main altar.
English: Ancient Roman statue of goddess Minerva, transformed into a statue of goddess Dea Roma and re-used in modern times for the fountain in piazza del Campidoglio square, Rome, Italy. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, April 7 2008.
The Capitoline Hill cordonata in Rome, leading from Piazza d'Aracoeli to Piazza del Campidoglio. The cordonata (Italian word, from cordone, which in architecture means "linear element which emphasizes a limit") is a sloping road interrupted at regular distances by low (8-10 cm) steps in the form of transversal stripes (cordoni) made of stone or bricks.