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Carcere Mamertino
Clivio Argentario, 1 Rome - Italy

The Carcere Mamertino is an ancient Roman prison built in the 4th Century B.C. and used to imprison anyone who it was thought to pose a threat to Rome. It was a dark dank, squalid little underground dungeon that was...
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Carcere Mamertino  (< 1 Mile)
The Carcere Mamertino is an ancient Roman prison built in the 4th Century B.C. and used to imprison anyone who it was thought to pose...
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Caesar Forum  (< 1 Mile)
Work began on Caesar Forum in 54BC because Caesar desired it, but it was Augustus who completed it. Very little can be seen of the...
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Capitoline Museum  (< 1 Mile)
The Capitoline Museum is actually made up of two palaces. Palazzo Nuovo is the smaller building and was opened to the public in 1734 by...
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Palazzo Senatorio  (< 1 Mile)
The Palazzo Senatorio is the result of numerous renovation works that started in the 11th Century and after reconstruction in the 13th Century it became...
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Piazza del Campidoglio  (< 1 Mile)
The Piazza del Campidoglio reorganisation began in 1539 as a scheme by Pope Paul III. It was the first square created as part of a...
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Santa Maria in Aracoeli  (< 1 Mile)
The church was built on the temple of Juno Moneta and first documented during the period of Gregory III. It was an abbey of the...
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Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi  (< 1 Mile)
The Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi or House of the Knights of Rhodes that has its entrance in the small but lovely Grillo Square is...
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Forum of Augustus  (< 1 Mile)
The Forum of Augustus can be located near the Trajan Market. It was established in the 2nd Century BC, being erected by the emperor. It...
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San Nicola in Carcere  (< 1 Mile)
The church of San Nicola in Carcere is a typical example of Roman 11th Century construction which was built within the ruins of three republican...
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Trajan Forum & Trajan Markets  (< 1 Mile)
The Trajan Forum and Trajan Markets were built to celebrate the victories of Trajan in Dacha. To build this project part of the city was...
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Roman Forum  (< 1 Mile)
The forum was designed as the centre of commercial and political life in ancient Rome with legal cases heard in the basilicas (churches). In 46...
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Wax Museum  (< 1 Mile)
Started in 1958, the wax museum in Rome is similar to Madame Tusseaud’s in London. Here, among the vignettes visitors can see: Napoleon Bonaparte crowned...
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San Marco  (< 1 Mile)
According to local tradition the church of San Marco was founded in 336 on the site of a house where St Mark the Evangelist ‘the...
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Colonna Gallery  (< 1 Mile)
Designed in the mid 16th Century by Bartolomeo Maronino for Cardinal Giacomo Capodiferro, this building was then bought by Cardinal Spada in 1632 and remodelled....
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Palazzo Venezia  (< 1 Mile)
It is believed that the construction of the Palazzo Venezia took place around 1455. The residence of the Venetian Cardinal Pietro Barbi by 1564, it...
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Maxentius Basilica  (< 1 Mile)
The Maxentius Basilica is a rectangular building erected around 308 by Maxentius and completely finished during the reign of Constantine. The exterior is built of...
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Santi Cosma e Damiano  (< 1 Mile)
The church of Santi Cosma e Damiano in the city of Rome is a small place that is home to the Library of Vespasian’s Temple...
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Church of San Pietro in Vincol  (< 1 Mile)
The Church of San Pietro was commissioned by Eudossia, wife of the Emperor Valentinianus III, as a place to keep the chains of Saint Peter...
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Villa Aldobrandini  (< 1 Mile)
The Villa Aldobrandini was built around 1500 and later acquired by Pope Clement VIII Aldobrandini. While the villa itself is not open to the public,...
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Museum of Palazzo Venezia  (< 1 Mile)
The Museum of Palazzo Venezia houses an interesting collection comprising works of art, pieces of furniture, weapons, fabrics, ceramics, tapestries, enamels, ivory, and paintings from...
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