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Colosseo
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The Colosseo, originally known like Flavio Amphitheater or simply like Amphitheatrum, is the most famous roman amphitheater, and is situated in the center of the city of Rome. In a position to containing till 50.000 spectators, it is the greatest and important roman amphitheater, let alone the more imposing monument of the ancient Rome that is reached till us. The amphitheater was built up on area to the limit orients them of the Roman Hole. Its construction was begun from Vespasiano in the 72 d.C and was inaugurated from Tito nell' 80 d.C., with ulterior modifications brought during the reign of Domiziano. Not more in use after VI century, l' enormous structure came variously red-use in the centuries, also like material quarry. The name " Colosseo" , that adaptation of the Colossus of Nerone derives from the near statue of the Colossus of the God Sun , is diffused alone in the Middle Ages. Very soon l' building divenne symbol of the imperial city, expression of ideology in which the celebration will it reaches to define models for the svago of the people. Today it is a symbol of the city and one of its greater tourist attractions. Was used for the "gladiatori" shows and other public manifestations (shows of hunting, shows of famous battles, and dramas based on classic mythology). It expresses with clarity the architectonic and constructive conceptions Roman of the first imperial Age, based respective on the line offered curve and wrapping from the elliptic plant and on the complexity of the constructive systems. It arches and times are concatenati between they in a locked structural relationship. The building forms un' ellipse of 527 m of circumference, with aces that measure 187,5 m for 156,5 m. L' arena all' inner measure 86 m for 54 m, with one surface of 3.357 m ². L' height puts into effect catches up them i 48,5 m, but originally it arrived to i 52 m. The Colosseo, like all the historical center of Rome, has been inserted in the list of the Patrimonies humanity Unesco in 1980. In the 2007 complex it has been also inserted between the Seven wonders of the modern world nell' within of a controversial competition |
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Castel Sant'Angelo |
Saint Angel Castle (or Adriana Size or " Castellum Crescentii" in the X-XII sec.) it is a roman monument, radically modified many times over in situated medioeval and rinascimental age on the skillful side of the Tevere, of forehead to pons the Aelius (puts into effect them Saint Angel bridge) to little distance of the Vatican, in the rione of Village. Till X the century Adrianeum is called and also templum Adriani and templum et castellum Adriani, in memory of its intentional origin from Adrian emperor in the 135 because it served from tomba imperial for oneself and the successory ones. The memory of these names is in the modern dizione of Mole Adriana. In the 359, Onorio includes it in the town-walls building of Rome transforming it in a kind of fortilizio for the defense of the city: date from then castellum name. In the 974 Crescenzio gets hold, of the family of Alberico, it fortifies than it ulteriorly: therefore it comes renamed Castrum Crescentii. This name will then last till the second half of XV the century, yielding definitively the step to the dizione puts into effect them. In VI century appears also the denomination "Castellum Sancti Angels", in memory of the vision of rinfoderante the Michele archangel the sword on the Mole Adriana had from Pope Gregorio Magno during a solemn enitential processione in order to ask for the plague that acted cruelly on Rome, vision interpreted like omen of the imminent aim of the plague, what that punctually happened |
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Pantheon |
The Pantheon is a building of ancient Rome, constructed like tempio dedicated to all of the Roman calls it the Rotonna friendly ("the Rotonda"), from which the name of the before public square. The beginning of the WAYS century the Pantheon has been converted in Christian church, Saint call Maria to Martyres, that it has concurred to it to survive nearly integral to despoliation brought to the buildings of the classic Rome from the popes. The Pantheon word is to all the effects a Greek loan that the Italian language has maintained for through of the Latin: in Greek τό πάνθειον it is a sostantivato adjective indicating " the totality of of the " , and in the majority of the cases the sostantivo sottintende ἱερόν (" tempio"), therefore from the Greek τό Πάνθειον (ἱερόν) (" The tempio of all gods ") it is derived I tread Latin Pantheon, used from Plinio the old one, that it has delivered the word to the Italian language.
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San Pietro |
The Saint Peter's basilica in Vatican is a catholic basilica that is found to Rome, all' inside of the Vatican City, to coronamento of the monumental Saint Peter square. It is the greater one of the papal basilicas, often described like the greatest church of the world and center of the Catholicism. It is not however the cathedral of Rome since such tito it is up to the basilica of Saint Giovanni in Laterano. The construction dell' it puts into effect them basilica of Saint Peter was begun the 18 you open them 1506 under Pope Giulio II and concluded in 1626, during the pontificato one of Pope Urbano VIII, while the sistemazione of the before public square only concluded in 1667. Draft however of a reconstruction, since in the same site, before dell' today's basilica, rose some un' going back other to IV the century, made to construct dall' roman emperor Costantino in the place in which the circus of Nerone was opened and where the tradition wants that Saint Peter, one of the apostles of Jesus, had been buried after its crocifissione. Today we can only imagine l' imponenza of this building, only immortalata in some artistic raffigurazioni: l' system, enriched in the course of the centuries with precious works d' art, was subdivided in five navate and introduced analogies with that one of the basilica of Saint Paul outside walls to them, had 120 altars of which 27 dedicated to the Madonna |
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