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Colosseo
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The Coliseum was built of brick and covered with travertine in a valley between the hills Palatine, Celio and Esquilino, after draining a small lake that Nero used for the Domus Aurea. The building of four storeys, with a height of 48.50 metres and an extension elliptical covering an area of approximately 19000 square meters, measuring axis greater than 188m and 156m less. The first floor is high with 10.50m semi Doric style, the second highest of about two metres is formed by Ionic columns, the third high 11.60m has Corinthian columns while the fourth wall with small square windows. At this level there are also holes required to support the beams of velario that, in ancient times, was used to protect spectators from the sun flying. The Coliseum is made up of areas that we could access through ladders and tunnels in which, during the shows, vendors were placed chickpeas, beverages and pillows. Along the sidelines, including places for the senators and members of the court was built by order of the stage of the emperor Augustus ( pulvinar). It was probably entitled to access through an underground corridor known as passage of Commodus, the fact that, in a passage of the Roman History, Dione Cassius tells how the emperor Commodus had suffered an attack in what was described as a dark ways. The elliptical arena, Flavian Amphitheater, which measures along the approximately 77m to 46, was formed by a wooden desk covered with sand. To access existed two inputs: west Gateway Triumphalis, which entered the gladiators or animals, and to the east Gateway Libitinensis, which were taken away the lifeless bodies of fighters (Labitinia Goddess of Death) . Under the arena of the Coliseum extended several corridors and environments destined to host the gladiators and wild beasts that could be brought to centre stage by forklifts and ramps. Along the edges paved the arena there was a porch to two orders of which there were received around the remains while running at a pavement with marble which was set on the velarium. Outside the building you can see inscriptions that recall the work of consolidating the amphitheatre and especially the prohibition of Pope Benedict XIV to pillage the monument.
Sacred & profane
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This is Antoninus and Faustina temple, which has been able to keep in very good condition until today, thanks to its conversion into a church (San Lorenzo in Miranda) between the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. The temple was built in 141 A.D. by emperor Antoninus Pius in memory of his wife Faustina and thereafter was dedicated to the emperor by the Senate after his death in 161 AD, as an inscription on the architrave. The temple stands on a high podium made of peperino marble blocks (peperino is a particular kind of marble), preceded by a staircase (rebuilt on the old) in the middle which you can see the remains of marble brick. The pronaos consists of ten cipolin marble columns, six on the front and two on each side, 17 metres high and with bases and corinthian capitals in white marble. On top of the columns, visible angular grooves were traced to hold the strings with which It tried in vain to bringing down the building in order to recover materials. The cell, as amended by the Baroque facade of the church, was also made by peperino blocks and was covered with marble.
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
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26 Décembre 2007 (en hommage à , qui m'a inspiré à essayer le HDR)... ;-) * * * Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a basilica church in Rome. The church, located in the Campus Martius region, is considered the only Gothic church in Rome, and is the city's principal Dominican church.
St Angelo
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Fotos de un paseo de 10 horas por Roma. Photos of a 10 hour walk in Rome. See where this picture was taken.
Colosseo- Roma
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Years ago I was cleared to fly over Rome. Now is strictly forbidden. The aerial view of Colosseo is uncommon.
Nearest places of interest:
| Roman Forum Foro di Cesare Meta Sudans Colosseo(World Wonder) | Villa Aldobrandini Hotel palatino Markets of Trajan Forum of Trajan |
