Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Rome, Italy

Moses is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in chapter 34 of Exodus in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time. Some scholars believe the use of horns may often hold an antisemitic implication, while others hold that it is simply a convention based on the translation error.

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The Fountain of the Catechumens is a fountain built in 1589 by Battista Rusconi to a design by Giacomo Della Porta and located in Piazza della Madonna dei Monti in the Monti district, Rome.

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The church of Santa Maria della Neve is a church in Rome, in the Monti district, in Via del Colosseo, at the intersection with Via del Cardello.

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The International Typological Museum of the Nativity Scene "Angelo Stefanucci" is a private museum of the city of Rome located in the basement of the church of Saints Quirico and Giulitta, open to the public with restricted hours, which collects dozens of nativity scenes from all over the world, built with different materials and techniques, as well as books, medals, posters, stamps always related to nativity scenes.

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The Palazzo Caffarelli al Campidoglio stands on the southwest side of the Capitol, and now houses a wing of the Capitoline Museums, the cafeteria and a panoramic terrace.

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The Insula dell'Ara Coeli is one of the few surviving examples of an insula, the kind of apartment blocks where many Roman city dwellers resided. It was built during the 2nd century AD, and rediscovered, under an old church, when Benito Mussolini initiated a plan for massive urban renewal of Rome's historic Capitoline Hill neighbourhood.

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The fountain of Piazza d'Aracoeli is located in Rome, in the small square at the foot of the Capitol in the Campitelli district.

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Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi, also known as San Stanislao alle Botteghe Oscure, is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, sited on Via delle Botteghe Oscure in the Sant'Angelo rione. It is the national church of Poland in Rome.

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The Crypta Balbi is a complex connected to the ancient theatre of Balbo in Rome. Today it is one of the houses of the National Roman Museum.

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Santa Caterina dei Funari is a church in Rome in Italy, in the rione of Sant'Angelo. The church is mainly known for its façade and its interior with frescoes and paintings.

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Sant'Ambrogio della Massima is a Catholic church in rione Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy, that perhaps dates to the 4th century. It was attached to a convent until it became the subject of a canonical investigation in the 19th century, when it was disbanded and repurposed as a missionary college and later an abbey church. It is said to have been associated with Saint Ambrose.

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Sant'Angelo in Pescheria or in Piscaria is a church in Rome. It dates from the 8th century. "In Pescheria" refers to its location close to the fish market built in the ruins of the ancient Porticus Octaviae.

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The Forum Holitorium or Olitorium is an archaeological area of Rome, Italy, on the slopes of the Capitoline Hill. It was located outside the Carmental Gate in the Campus Martius, crowded between the cattle market and buildings located in the Circus Flaminius.

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The Arch of Janus is the only quadrifrons triumphal arch preserved in Rome. It was set up in the early 4th century AD at a crossroads at the northeastern limit of the Forum Boarium, close to the Velabrum, over the Cloaca Maxima drain that went from the Forum to the River Tiber.

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The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Its name is related to that of Cloacina, a Roman goddess. Built during either the Roman Kingdom or early Roman Republic, it was constructed in Ancient Rome in order to drain local marshes and remove waste from the city. It carried effluent to the River Tiber, which ran beside the city. The sewer started at the Forum Augustum and ended at the Ponte Rotto and Ponte Palatino. It began as an open air canal, but it developed into a much larger sewer over the course of time. Agrippa renovated and reconstructed much of the sewer. This would not be the only development in the sewers. By the first century CE all eleven Roman aqueducts were connected to the sewer. After the Roman Empire fell the sewer still was used. By the 19th century, it became a tourist attraction. Some parts of the sewer are still used today. Whilst still being used, it was highly valued as a sacred symbol of Roman culture, and Roman engineering.

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The Church of San Benedetto in Piscinula is a very small and very old church in Rome, in the district of Trastevere.

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The Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island is a titular minor basilica, located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 998 by Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor and contains the putative relics of St. Bartholomew the Apostle. It is located on Tiber Island, on the site of the former temple of Aesculapius, which had cleansed the island of its former ill-repute among the Romans and established its reputation as a hospital, continued under Christian auspices today.

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The church of Santa Maria della Luce is an ancient church in the Rione of Trastevere in Rome, Italy.

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San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi is a Roman Catholic church on via Anicia in the Trastevere district of Rome. It is the regional church for Genoa.

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Santa Maria dell'Orto is a church in the Rione of Trastevere in Rome (Italy). It is the national church of Japan in Rome.

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The church of San Cosimato is a church located in the city of Rome, Italy. It was originally built in the 10th century in the Trastevere rione and now includes the hospital known as "Nuovo Regina Margherita." Originally, it was built as a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian, from whom it derives its name, and it carried the added designation of in mica aurea due to the presence of fluvial sand of yellowish color.

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The Fountain in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere is a fountain located in the square in front of the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. It is believed to be the oldest fountain in Rome, dating back, according to some sources, to the 8th century. The present fountain is the work of Donato Bramante, with later additions by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Carlo Fontana.

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The church of Santa Margherita in Trastevere is a Catholic place of worship in Rome, in the Trastevere district, located in Piazza di Sant'Apollonia, 13.

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Santa Maria della Scala is a titular church in Rome, Italy, located in the Trastevere rione. Cardinal Ernest Simoni took possession of the titular church on 11 February 2017. Santa Maria della Scala is a titular church.

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Santa Dorotea is an ancient Roman Catholic church in the Diocese of Rome first attested to in a papal bull of Pope Callistus II in 1123, being referred to under its first dedication of San Silvestro alla Porta Settimiana.

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Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori is a Baroque church in Rome built attached to a convent in the rione of Trastevere, located on Via Garibaldi, near the intersection with Via dei Panieri.

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The church of Sant'Antonio Maria Zaccaria is a church in Rome, in the Trastevere district, located in Via Ulisse Seni, 1.

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Santa Maria Regina Pacis a Monte Verde is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in Monteverde, central Rome.

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The basilica of San Pancrazio is a minor Roman Catholic basilica and titular church founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th century in Rome, Italy. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum. It covers the Catacomb of San Pancrazio.

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