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This is a list of ancient monuments from Republican and Imperial periods in the city of Rome, Italy. Amphitheaters
The surviving ancient text describing Hadrian's Villa is the Historia Augusta, which refers to Hadrian's naming of rooms after significant locations within the Roman Empire (the Lyceum, the Academy, Hades) [3] from his travels, notably after Egyptian cities or temples. The architecture goes beyond the mere naming of its structures, as certain ...
Ostia may have been Rome's first colonia.According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, [4] was the first to destroy Ficana, an ancient town that was only 17 km (11 mi) from Rome and had a small harbour on the Tiber, and then proceeded with establishing the new colony 10 km (6 mi) further west and closer to the sea coast.
The Roman Forum (Italian: Foro Romano), also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum. [2] For ...
Photos show what remains of the ... On the edge of an ancient city in Italy sat some long-forgotten ruins. The structure was once a sacred site and had been worn down by thousands of years of ...
View of the Palatine Hill from across the Circus Maximus A schematic map of Rome showing the seven hills and the Servian Wall. The Palatine Hill (/ ˈ p æ l ə t aɪ n /; Classical Latin: Palatium; [1] Neo-Latin: Collis/Mons Palatinus; Italian: Palatino [palaˈtiːno]), which relative to the seven hills of Rome is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been ...
The Roman Forum (Latin: Forum Romanum) was a rectangular forum at the heart of the city of Ancient Rome. The Forum was used for military triumphs, elections, criminal trials, gladiatorial matches, and as a meeting- and business-place. The Forum survives today in ruins, and is the oldest structure in the modern city of Rome.
The Colosseum (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ s iː ə m / KOL-ə-SEE-əm; Italian: Colosseo [kolosˈsɛːo], ultimately from Ancient Greek word "kolossos" meaning a large statue or giant) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the ...