Rome (Italy)

The ten closest neighbours in the database:

Milan (Italy) (476 km), Asti (Italy) (481 km), Catania (Italy) (537 km), Fortress Museum Crestawald (579 km), Syracuse (Italy) (587 km), Innsbruck (Austria) (603 km), Principality of Liechtenstein (628 km), Feldkirch (Austria) (635 km), Bregenz (Austria) (659 km), St. Gallen (Switzerland) (665 km)

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Colosseum
Castello St. Angelo
 
Arco di Constantino
Fontana di Trevi
Candles in S. Pietro in Vaticano (St. Peter's of Rome). Each candle stands for a wish.
Colosseum
The Pantheon is one of the great spiritual buildings of the world. It was built as a Roman temple and later consecrated as a Catholic Church. Its monumental porch originally faced a rectangular colonnaded temple courtyard and now enfronts the smaller Piazza della Rotonda. Through great bronze doors, one enters one great circular room. The interior volume is a cylinder above which rises the hemispherical dome. Opposite the door is a recessed semicircular apse, and on each side are three additional recesses, alternately rectangular and semicircular, separated from the space under the dome by paired monolithic columns. The only natural light enters through an unglazed oculus at the center of the dome and through the bronze doors to the portico. As the sun moves, striking patterns of light illuminate the walls and floors of porphyry, granite and yellow marbles. (Source: Great Buildings Online)
Piazza di Spagna
Colosseum
Castello St. Angelo
Domus Agustea
Piazza del Campidoglio
Foro Romano
Santa Maria Maggiore seen from Piazza dell'Esquilino
View accross Foro Romano (Forum Romanum) as seen from the street Via dei Fori Imperali
The Trajan's Forum (Forum Traiani) is the youngest of the Imperial fora of Rome
Trajan's Forum and Cathedral Santissimo Nome di Maria La Chiesa
Trajan's Forum (Forum Traiani)
Cathedral Santissimo Nome di Maria La Chiesa in Trajan's Forum
Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II on Piazza Venezia
Vittorio Emanuele II Memorial
Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II
Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II on Piazza Venezia
Palazzo Venezia was one of the first Renaissance buildings in Rome
Stairs to Piazza del Campidoglio
Campidoglio
Piazza del Campidoglio
The statue of Marcus Aurelius on Piazza del Campidoglio faces North to the Vatican
Forum Romanum, remains of the Temple of Saturn in the middle
Forum Romanum
Arch of Septimius Severus on Forum Romanum
Arch of Septimius Severus on Forum Romanum
Arch of Septimius Severus on Forum Romanum
Curia Iulia, home of the Roman Senate
Amphitheatrum Flavium - better known as the Colosseum
Colosseum
Originally capable of seating around 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. It remained in use for nearly 500 years with the last recorded games being held there as late as the 6th century - well after the traditional date of the fall of Rome in 476.
Colosseum
Colosseum
Façade above the entrance of the Colosseum
The Arch of Constantine (Arco di Constantino or Arcus Constantini)
Amphitheatrum Flavium - better known as the Colosseum
Amphitheatrum Flavium - better known as the Colosseum
Circus Maximus
Circus Maximus
Bridge across the Tiber
Tiber at night
Piazza Navona at night
Piazza Navona at night
Even during the night merchants offer paints on Piazza Navona
Even during the night merchants offer paints on Piazza Navona
View from Ponte Sant'Angelo over the Tiber to the Vatican City
Basilica of Saint Peter
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Fountain on the Piazza of St. Peter's Basilica
Basilica of Saint Peter
View from St Peter's Square (Piazza di San Pietro) towards the main entrance of the Basilica
View from St Peter's Square (Piazza di San Pietro) towards the main entrance of the Basilica
View across St. Peter's Square to the Apostolic Palace
St Peter's Square (Piazza di San Pietro)
St. Peter's Square is surrounded by an elliptical colonnade with two pairs of Doric columns which form its breadth, each bearing Ionic entablatures. The colonnade wraps around the square, embracing the faithful in "the motherly arms of the church"
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Square
Façade of St. Peter's Basilica with the inscription IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS PONT MAX AN MDCXII PONT VII In honor of the prince of apostles; by Paul V Borghese, a Roman, Supreme Pontiff, in the year 1612 and the seventh year of his pontificate
Façade of St. Peter's Basilica with the inscription IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS PONT MAX AN MDCXII PONT VII (In honor of the prince of apostles; by Paul V Borghese, a Roman, Supreme Pontiff, in the year 1612 and the seventh year of his pontificate).
Clock in the façade of St. Peter's Basilica
View from the entrance of the Basilica over St. Peter's Square
Ceiling of the portico between the façade and the interior of St. Peter's
Door to St. Peter's Basilica
Central aisle of St. Peter's Basilica
Arches above the right aisle of St. Peter's Basilica
Side altar in St. Peter's Basilica
Over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica stands a 30 metres (98 ft) tall baldachin held by four immense pillars, all designed by Bernini between 1624 and 1632. The baldachin was built to fill the space beneath the cupola, and it is said that the bronze used to make it was taken from the Pantheon.
Left transept of St. Peter's Basilica seen under back light
Dome of St. Peter's Basilica
View from the main altar of Sankt Peter to the entrance
Details below the dome of St. Peter's Basilica
View from the right transept of St. Peter's Basilica to the main entrance. Above you can the arches of the central nave.
Papal crest on one of the pillars of the altar baldachin in St. Peter's Basilica
High altar of St. Peter's Basilica. In the back you can see Bernini's "Gloria" surmounting the "Cathedra Petri".
Arch above the main entrance in St. Peter's Basilica
Left aisle of St. Peter's Basilica
Arches between the middle and right aisle of St. Peter's Basilica
One of the smaller domes of the left aisle of St. Peter's Basilica
Left half of St. Peter's façade above the main entrance
Stairs going up to the main entrance of St. Peter's Basilica
Façade of St. Peter's Basilica
Above the attic of St. Peter's Basilica, thirteen statues (each about 5 1/2 meters tall) stand on the balustrade. They portray Christ, St. John the Baptist and eleven Apostles.
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
View across St. Peter's Square to the Apostolic Palace
Apostolic Palace
Basilica of Saint Peter
At the center of the ellipse of Saint Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro) stands an Egyptian obelisk of red granite, 25.5 meters tall, supported on bronze lions and surmounted by the Chigi arms in bronze, in all 41 meters to the cross on its top. The obelisk, of the 13th century BC, was moved to Rome in AD 37 by the Emperor Caligula to stand in the central spina of the Circus Gai et Neronis, which lay to the left of the present basilica.
View across St. Peter's Square to the Apostolic Palace
St. Peter's Basilica and the huge square with the obelisk in the center of the ellipse
Via della Conciliazione
Passetto di Borgo - Papal escape route from Apostolic Palace to Castel Sant'Angelo
Via della Conciliazione leading to Saint Peter's Square
Bushes are growing on the roof of an old palazzo
Scooters are the typical means of transportation in Rome
The Quirinal Palace (known in Italian as the Palazzo del Quirinale or simply the Quirinale) is the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic upon the Quirinal Hill, the tallest of the seven hills of Rome.
Quirinal Palace
The Tabularium was the official records office of Rome. During the 13th and 14th century the Palazzo Senatorio (palace of the senate or the city hall) was built over the ancient walls.
Temple of Saturn
Arch of Septimius Severus on Forum Romanum
Arch of Septimius Severus on Forum Romanum
Column erected around 608 in honour of the Byzantine emperor Phocas
Curia Iulia, home of the Roman Senate
Santi Luca e Martina and the Arch of Septimius Severus on Forum Romanum
View from Forum Romanum up to Palatine Hill
Arch of Septimius Severus and the Senate in Curia Iulia
View from Forum Romanum up to Capitol Hill. On the left side you can see ruins of the Basilica Julia. On the middle you see some columns of the Saturn Temple
Tabularium, Arch of Septimius Severus and the church Santi Luca e Martina
View from Forum Romanum up to Capitol Hill. On the left side you can see ruins of the Basilica Julia. On the middle you see some columns of the Saturn Temple.
Basilica Iulia and the Palatine Hill in the background
Foundations of the Temple of Castor and Pollux
Great brick building nearby Vicus Tuscus on Forum Romanum
Great brick building nearby Vicus Tuscus on Forum Romanum
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (now San Lorenzo in Miranda)
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (San Lorenzo in Miranda)
Construction is done above Atrium Vestae on the hillside of the Palatine
The Basilica of Maxentius was the largest building in the Roman Forum
The Basilica of Maxentius was the largest building in the Roman Forum
Basilica of Maxentius
Forum Romanum
View from the Palatine Hill down into the ruins of the great brick building nearby the street Vicus Tuscus on Forum Romanum
View from Palatine Hill over the Forum Romanum
   
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