Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #15 in Rome, Italy

Porta San Giovanni is a gate in the Aurelian Wall of Rome, Italy, named after the nearby Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran.

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The Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Dominated by two protruding tower blocks and associated guard rooms, it was built between 271 and 275 AD, at the same time as the Wall itself. Unlike most of the other gates, it was not rebuilt or fortified by Honorius or restored by Theoderic.

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Porta Metronia is a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The gate is located in the southern section of the wall between Porta San Giovanni to the east and Porta Latina to the south.

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The Obelisk of Villa Celimontana is one of the thirteen ancient obelisks in Rome.

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The church of San Tommaso in Formis is a small church in Rome, situated on the Caelian Hill.

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The Minor Basilica of St. Mary in Domnica alla Navicella, or simply Santa Maria in Domnica or Santa Maria alla Navicella, is a Roman Catholic basilica in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and active in local charity according to its long tradition. It is one of the best examples of the Carolingian Renaissance in Rome. It has been the titular church of Cardinal Marcello Semeraro since 28 November 2020.

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The Fontana della Navicella is a fountain built around a marble and travertine replica of an Ancient Roman sculpture, depicting a decorated Roman Galley, and erected in front of the church of Santa Maria in Domnica of Rome, Italy. While the statue is a copy (1518–1519) made by Andrea Sansovino on commission from Pope Leo X based on fragments discovered near the church.

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The basilicas of ancient Rome were civil basilicas that mostly arose in the forensic squares. Basilica Porcia Built in 184 BC From Catone the censor during his censorship, was identified with the remains seen on the north corner of the Roman Forum, between the Curia and the Atrium Libertatis seat of the censors. The remains have a renovation in the Sillana era. The Basilica became the center of intense economic activity and recalled the Egyptian Hypietila Hall in the architectural form. Basilica Sempronia He went on the north-eastern side of the Piazza del Foro Romano, behind the Tabernae Veteres, by the censor Tiberio Sempronio Gracco, in 170 BC Opimia Founded in 121 BC At the north corner of the Roman Forum Piazza by the consul Lucio Opimio together with the renovation of the contiguous temple of Concordia. Probably disappeared on the occasion of the Tiberian reconstruction of the Temple. Basilica Fulvia Also known as Fulvia-Aemilia, it was built on the northeastern side of the Piazza del Foro Romano, behind the Tabernae Novae Argentariae, by the censors of the year 179 BC, probably in place of a previous basilica cited by Plauto and was replaced to the middle of the I century BC from the Basilica Emilia.basilica Emilia It was placed with the name of Basilica Aemilia or Basilica Paulli on the northeastern side of the Piazza del Foro Romano, to replace the Basilica Fulvia or Fulvia-Aemilia, behind the Tabernae Novae Argentariae between 55 and 34 BC. and had various restorations until the fifth century. Basilica Giulia With the name of Basilica Iulia arose on the south-western side of the Roman Forum square starting from 55 BC, instead of the basilica Sempronia and the anti-tabernae veteres. It was inaugurated in 46 BC, but damaged by a fire in 12 BC. It was restored and dedicated to the grandchildren of Augustus, Caio and Lucio Cesari in 12. Destroyed again by the fire of 283 was restored under Diocletian.

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Porta Caelimontana and Porta Querquetulana were two city gates that opened in the Servian Wall in Rome (Italy); only the first one is still existing.

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The Oratory of Sant'Andrea is a church in Rome, in the Celio district, in Piazza di San Gregorio: it is one of the three oratories of the Celio, near the church of San Gregorio.

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The Oratory of Santa Silvia is a church in Rome, in the Celio district, in Piazza di San Gregorio: it is one of the three oratories of the Celio, near the church of San Gregorio.

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The Porta Capena was a gate in the Servian Wall in Rome, Italy. The gate was located in the area of Piazza di Porta Capena, where the Caelian, Palatine and Aventine hills meet. Probably its exact position was between the entrance of Via di Valle delle Camene and the beginning of Via delle Terme di Caracalla, facing the curved side of the Circus Maximus.

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Santi Nereo ed Achilleo is a fourth-century basilica church in Rome, Italy, located in via delle Terme di Caracalla in the rione Celio facing the main entrance to the Baths of Caracalla. It has been the titular church of Cardinal Celestino Aós Braco since 28 November 2020.

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Santa Balbina is a Roman Catholic basilica church in a quiet area on the side of the Aventine Hill, in Rome. It is next to the Baths of Caracalla.

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San Saba is an ancient basilica church in Rome, Italy. It lies on the so-called Piccolo Aventino, which is an area close to the ancient Aurelian Walls next to the Aventine Hill and Caelian Hill.

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Giorgio Castriota, known as Scanderbeg, was an Albanian leader, patriot and prince who led his compatriots to rebellion against the occupation of Albania by the Turkish-Ottomans. He is considered the Albanian national hero.

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Santa Prisca is a titular church of Rome, on the Aventine Hill, for Cardinal-priests. It is recorded as the Titulus Priscae in the acts of the 499 synod.

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The Basilica dei Santi Bonifacio e(d) Alessio is a basilica, rectory church served by the Somaschans, and titular church for a cardinal-priest on the Aventine Hill in the third prefecture of central Rome, Italy.

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The Church of St. Mary of the Priory, also known as St. Mary on the Aventine, is the monastery church of the Priory of the Knights of Malta on the Aventine Hill in Rome, and is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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The pyramid of Cestius is an ancient Roman Egyptian-style pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation. It stands at a fork between two ancient roads, the Via Ostiensis and another road that ran west to the Tiber along the approximate line of the modern Via Marmorata. Due to its incorporation into the city's fortifications, it is today one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome.

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The Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Via Ostiense Museum is housed within the gatehouse. It is in the Ostiense quarter; just to the west is the Roman Pyramid of Cestius, an Egyptian-style pyramid, and beyond that is the Protestant Cemetery.

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The Non-Catholic Cemetery, also referred to as the Protestant Cemetery or the English Cemetery, is a private cemetery in the rione of Testaccio in Rome. It is near Porta San Paolo and adjacent to the Pyramid of Cestius, a small-scale Egyptian-style pyramid built between 18 and 12 BCE as a tomb and later incorporated into the section of the Aurelian Walls that borders the cemetery. It has Mediterranean cypress, pomegranate and other trees, and a grassy meadow. It is the final resting place of non-Catholics including but not exclusive to Protestants or British people. The earliest known burial is that of a Dr Arthur, a Protestant medical doctor hailing from Edinburgh, in 1716. The English poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as Russian painter Karl Briullov and Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci are buried there.

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Monte Testaccio or Monte Testaceo, also known as Monte dei Cocci, is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae, fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire, some of which were labelled with tituli picti. It is one of the largest spoil heaps found anywhere in the ancient world, covering an area of 2 hectares at its base and with a volume of approximately 580,000 cubic metres (760,000 cu yd), containing the remains of an estimated 53 million amphorae. It has a circumference of nearly a kilometre (0.6 mi) and stands 35 metres (115 ft) high, though it was probably considerably higher in ancient times. It stands a short distance away from the east bank of the River Tiber, near the Horrea Galbae where the state-controlled reserve of olive oil was stored in the late 2nd century AD. The mound later had both religious and military significance.

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The Fontana delle Anfore, located in Testaccio, a quarter of Rome, Italy. It was completed in 1927, by Pietro Lombardi after he won a competition the municipality of Rome set in 1924 for new local fountains. The motive of the amphorae refers to the Monte Testaccio and to the symbol of the whole quarter.

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Santa Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church on the Monte Testaccio in Rome, dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus.

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