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Via Condotti, Rome

Mar 132010

Via Condotti (Via dei Condotti) is a street of Rome, Italy. In Roman times it was one of the streets that decussate the ancient Via Flaminia and enabled people who decussate the Tiber to reach the Pincio hill. It begins at the Spanish steps and is named after conduits or channels which carried water to the Baths of Agrippa.

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Caffé Greco (or Antico Caffé Greco), perhaps the most famous café in leaders was established at Via dei Condotti 84 in 1760, and attracted figures much as Stendhal, Goethe, Byron, Liszt and poet to hit coffee there. Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio, lived at Via dei Condotti 11, until his modification in 1937.
Being near the Spanish steps the street is visited by large numbers of tourists.
Via Condotti is a center of fashion shopping in Rome, dating back to the atelier of Bulgari which opened in 1905. Now, in addition to Valentino, other designers much as Zara, Armani, Hermès, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Gucci, Prada, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana and Salvatore Ferragamo all hit stores on Via Condotti. Others much as Laura Biagiotti hit their offices there.

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Stadio Olimpico, Rome

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Jan 132009

Stadio Olimpico, located on the Foro Italico, is the major stadium of Rome, Italy. It is the home of the Italian national football team, as well as of both local teams A.S. Roma and S.S. Lazio.

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

It was opened in 1937 and after the last renovation, since 2008, the stadium has a capacity of 72,700 seats. It was the site of the 1960 Summer Olympics, but has also served as the location of the 1987 World Athletics Championships and the 1990 FIFA World Cup. It will also be hosting the UEFA Champions League Final in 2009.
Also on the Foro Italico lies the Stadio dei Marmi, or “marble stadium”, which was built in 1932 and designed by Enrico Del Debbio. It boasts enormous tiers topped by 60 white marble statues that were gifts from Italian cities in commemoration of 60 athletes. Rome sightseeing tours.

Stadio Olimpico, Rome GPS coordinates: 41° 56′ 1.99″ N, 12° 27′ 17.23″ E

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The Capitoline Museums, Rome

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Aug 012008

The Capitoline Museums are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the famous Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.

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The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of over 400 years. The history of the museums can be traced to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and located them on Capitoline Hill. Since then, the museums’ collection has grown to include a large number of ancient Roman statues, inscriptions, and other artifacts; a collection of medieval and Renaissance art; and collections of jewels, coins, and other items. The museums are owned and operated by the municipality of Rome. Rome travel guides.

The Capitoline Museums, Rome GPS coordinates: 41° 53′ 35″ N, 12° 28′ 57″ E

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Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome

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Feb 142008

The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as the Castel Sant’Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Rome, initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family.

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The building, located in Rome, Italy and spent over a thousand years as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum. The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian was erected on the right bank of the Tiber, between 135 and 139. Originally the mausoleum was a decorated cylinder, with a garden top and golden quadriga. Hadrian’s ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who also died in 138. Following this, the remains of succeeding emperors were also placed here, the last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217. The urns containing these ashes were probably placed in what is now known as the Treasury room deep within the building. Hadrian also built the Pons Aelius facing straight onto the mausoleum – it still provides a scenic approach from the center of Rome and the right bank of the Tiber, and is renowned for the Baroque additions of statuary of angels holding aloft elements of the Passion of Christ. Add Rome to you summer vacation locations.

Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome GPS coordinates: 41° 54′ 11.03″ N, 12° 27′ 58.88″ E

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Piazza Navona, Rome

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Jan 182008

Piazza Navona is a square in Rome, Italy.

Piazza Navona, Rome

The piazza follows the plan of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones (“games”): It was known as ‘Circus Agonalis’ (competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to ‘in agone’ to ‘navone’ and eventually to ‘navona’.
Piazza Navona contains two additional fountains sculpted by Giacomo della Porta — the Fontana di Nettuno (1574), located at the northern area of Piazza Navona, and the Fontana del Moro (1576), located at the southern end of the piazza. Vistit Rome, it is perfect vacation locatio, very romantic.
Piazza Navona, Rome GPS coordinates: 41°53′56″N, 12°28′23″E

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Spanish Steps, Rome

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Sep 072007

The Spanish Steps is a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by Trinità dei Monti, the church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, above. The Scalinata is “without a doubt the longest and widest staircase in all Europe”.

The monumental stairway of 138 steps was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier’s bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, today still located in Palazzo Monaldeschi in the piazza below, with the Trinità dei Monti above.
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Spanish Steps, Rome GPS coordinates: 41°54′22″N 12°28′60″E

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