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    • Alejandro QuesadaI 12 Tesori Italiani 🇮🇹🤌🏼
      Day 4

      Piazza Venezia e Foro Romano 🏛️🌿💂

      October 2, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

      He decidido pasar las horas que me quedan -oh, sorpresa- paseando por la ciudad 😃 y hago un recorrido alrededor del Foro Romano.

      Tras la elección del nuevo gobierno en Italia desde hace unos meses, el Panteón se ha convertido en la primera iglesia de pago, tras la cual vendrán más. Es por eso que aprovecho para visitar dos iglesias muy particulares: la Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore (cómo se nota el dinero del Vaticano) y la Basílica de San Pietro in Vincoli, en la que hay una tumba de un cardenal con la figura de la muerte 🧐 no entiendo muy bien por qué pero voy a verla igual 🙂

      No me puedo ir de Roma sin volver a visitar el monumento más representativo de la ciudad. Vuelvo al Coliseo, esta vez por la tarde, y luego paseo por la Via dei Fori Imperiali hasta llegar a la imponente Piazza Venezia, y subo hasta la cima del gran monumento erigido en nombre de la República Italiana 🇮🇹

      Callejeo de vuelta hasta la estación Roma Termini y allí me despido de la capital de este país, que me ha acogido con los brazos abiertos desde mi llegada hace unos días a Italia 🤗

      Ni una pizza me he comido, se me debería caer la cara de vergüenza. Arrivederci Roma! 🚄👋🏼😊      Read more

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    • Nadine und DominikRom - 09.11. - 13.11.2023
      Day 2

      Trajansforum & Trajanssäule

      November 10, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

      Unser nächstes Ziel führte uns gut 15 Minuten nach Westen zum Trajansforum, der Trajanssäule und dem Trajansmarkt. Das Trajansforum (lat.: Forum Traiani) in Rom ist das letzte, größte und prächtigste der so genannten Kaiserforen. Auch ist es das Forum in Rom, das heute noch am besten erhalten ist. Auf Befehl Kaiser Trajans wurde im Jahr 107 n. Chr. mit dem Bau und der Ausgestaltung des Trajansforums begonnen. Endgültig eingeweiht wurde die gesamte Anlage im Jahre 143 n. Chr. In zentraler Lage in Rom war kein Platz für ein so prächtiges Forum, wie es sich Trajan vorstellte. Er wählte deshalb den noch weitgehend unbebauten Abschnitt zwischen dem Augustusforum und dem Caesarforum für den Platz aus. Das Trajansforum, auf dem noch bis in die Spätantike Ehrenstatuen aufgestellt worden waren, wurde später weitgehend überbaut. Viele Gebäude bzw. Gebäudeteile dienten im Mittelalter zudem als Steinbruch. Gut erhalten sind vor allem die Trajanssäule und weite Teile der Märkte. Insgesamt ist bisher wenig ausgegraben worden. Das liegt nicht zuletzt daran, dass sich die Reste des Trajansforums zirka 5 Meter unter dem heutigen Straßenniveau der Stadt befinden. Oberhalb der bereits ausgegrabenen Ruinen ging’s weiter zum oberhalb des Areals liegenden Viktor-Emanuelsdenkmal.Read more

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    • Bella Italia 2018
      Day 38

      My Magnum, Rome

      October 6, 2018 in Italy ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

      So this is a very random inclusion in our travel story but I just had to include this place as it is a place I have not heard of before, and it was pretty cool - My Magnum. This shop allows you to create your own unique Magnum ice-cream, with your choice of toppings and Belgian chocolate.

      You get to choose your “naked” Magnum, vanilla or chocolate, then have it coated with your choice of white, milk or dark Belgian chocolate and topped off with toppings from a vast range of toppings. This is then finished off with your choice of Belgian chocolate drizzle.

      At €4.50 these weren’t cheap but we had to try the experience at least once. For me I still prefer the Ego Magnums you can buy at the shops. I did however like the decor, from the sign to the light shades created from Magnum sticks. Very cool and a very different last tourist site for our time in Rome.      Read more

    • TravelerItaly 2019
      Day 3

      le Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini

      May 8, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      We had booked tickets to this and it was very interesting and worthwhile. Basically you walk through an archeological dig after descending to the Roman era. It is dimly lit although the pathway is level. First you explore the home and spa of a wealthy noble. going through the various stages of the Roman bath houses - first sauna, the caldarium (hot), then tepidarium and frigidarium. All manned by slaves burning wood. Next to this palazzo they discovered huge granite columns and further that Tiberius's column just outside was previously the centre of a temple of very substantial proportions. Rome's current elevation seems about 15 feet above the level where Roman Rome was built.

      On top of the toppled Rome ruins a Renaissance era palace had been built that’s been the seat of the Province of Rome since 1873. The archaeological remains of several lavish ancient Roman houses have been turned into a fascinating multimedia ‘experience’. Descending down, you walk through the ruins, often on glass floors that let you look down to the foundations and floor and view on the walls and ceiling a virtual reconstruction using light, sound effects and projections of “reborn” walls, rooms, peristyle, thermes, salons, decorations, kitchens, furniture of the patrician “Domus” of imperial age.

      Official site:
      https://www.palazzovalentini.it/domus-romane/in…      Read more

    • TravelerItaly 2019
      Day 3

      Museo Capitolino

      May 8, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      Next, a walk across the Piazza to another hill with a stairway called the Cordonata designed by Michelangelo (thanks Mike for the shallow steps) to get to the Capitolino Museum. The lowest floor houses information about the Romans that would have been interesting and useful such as construction, legal system etc but we ran out of time, The upper two contain notable pieces you see in guidebooks plus the foundation of an Etruscan building (they predate the Romans and were absorbed by them). Overall worthwhile but we were tired - it was almost too much to add on.

      Pope Sixtus IV began the collection when he donated a number of bronze statues with strong ties to the city, like the bronze of Romulus and Remus being nursed by a she-wolf (Lupa Capitolina); the colossal head of Constantine and the Camillus. In the 16th century Pope Pius V ridded the Vatican of all art depicting pagan images and so the collection grew. It was in 1734 that the museum was opened to the public.

      One of the museum's prized pieces is the statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback; this is the only surviving bronze equestrian statue from Ancient Rome. The highlights of the museum include Lo Spinario; Caravaggio's Fortune Teller; Rubens' Romulus and Remus; Dying Gaul; Cupid and Psyche and the Capitoline Venus.

      Article:
      http://www.aviewoncities.com/rome/capitolinemus…
      Official Site:
      http://www.museicapitolini.org/en/mostre_ed_eve…      Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Columna Traiana, Trajan's Column, Columna Trajana, Colonna Traiana

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