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Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries , it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.
Trevi is the 2nd rione of Rome, Italy, identified by the initials R. II, located in Municipio I.The origin of its name is not clear, but the most accepted theory is that it comes from the Latin trivium (meaning 'three streets'), because there were three streets all leading to the current Piazza dei Crociferi, a square next to the modern Trevi square.
Trevi (Italian:; Latin: Trebiae) is an ancient town and comune (municipality) in Umbria, Italy, on the lower flank of Mount Serano overlooking the wide plain of the Clitunno river system. Located in the Province of Perugia , it is 10 km (6 mi) SSE of Foligno and 20 km (12 mi) north of Spoleto .
Belgium, [a] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [b] is a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries , it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.
This is an incomplete list of castles and châteaux in Belgium. [ a ] The Dutch word kasteel and the French word château refer both to fortified defensive buildings ( castles proper) and to stately aristocratic homes ( châteaux , manor houses or country houses ).
Prolific Italian illustrator and engraver Bartolomeo Pinelli (1771–1835) was buried in Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi, as was Russian princess Zinaida Volkonskaya. Its travertine façade has proved porous; restoration with liquid hydraulic mortar and other materials was undertaken in 1989–90, to arrest deterioration.
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and ...
Belgium's highest point is the Signal de Botrange at 694 metres above the sea level. Other hills in Belgium include the Kemmelberg (159 m high) and the Koppenberg (77 m high) both known as part of the route of the cycle races Gent–Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders respectively.