In the surrounding area can be found the San-tuario di Santa Maria di Galloro (first half of the 17th cent.), with facade designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; inside is a painting of San Tommaso di Villanova, by Giacinto Gemi-gnani (1611-1681).

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Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii, a parallelepiped sepulchre, begun in the last days of the Republican era. The Cisternone is a large subterranean cistern, formerly used by the Roman troops. The church of Santa Maria della Rotonda corresponds to the nymphaeum of a Roman villa; it has a 13th cent, portico, and is flanked by a Romanesque bell-tower, also 13th cent.

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Roman builders know and discovered different techniques to build this giant edifice. Stronger but lighter mortar, bricks and volcanic stone were used by them.

The Materials used in Colosseum:

• 1 – Travertine: The limestone which was used in the main pillars and walls were strong and brought from Tibur. It was generally white or yellow.
• 2 – Tuff: Tuff is softer than travertine and it brings elasticity. However; since it was not resistant to the fire, the damage was bigger in cases of big fires in Colosseum.
• 3- Concrete: Concrete was invented by the Romans. It was cheap, quick to make, and easy to use. To make concrete, the Romans dropped pieces of rubble into sticky mortar made of lime (a powder of burned chalk or limestone), water, and pozzolana (a volcanic ash). The mortar hardened as it dried, holding the concrete together. Rubble gives concrete its strength. Big lumps of heavy rubble were used in the Colosseum’s foundations. Small lumps of light rubble were used in the upper walls.
• 4- Bricks: Bricks were mixed with water, sand and tiles.
• 5 – Iron / Bronze Clamps: In order to bind stones together these clamps were used.
• 6 – Marble: Marble is used both in decoration and the entrances of the cavea in Colosseum. Some of the columns are also made of marble. The first three marble rows were for the nobles and special guests.
• 7 – Lime: Lime was used as binder for the cement by adding water. It was made of limestone which is heated.
• 8 – Mortar: Mortar is mixture of cement/sand and water. There were two types of mortar: The first one is lime mortar – the one we mentioned above, and pozzolanic mortar – the volcanic ash which is an aluminous material reacted with calcium hydroxide.
• 9 – Stone: Stone was used on the outside walls of Colosseum and the sections of the building that took the most weight. Big lifting cranes hoisted stone blocks into the air. They were powered by roman slaves walking around and around a treadwheel. Inside walls of Colosseum and underground passages (called Hypogeum) were built using heavy concrete and brick. The upper levels were built with less heavy materials, such as wood, bricks, and the lightest concrete.

Interior of Colosseum, ancient Roman amphitheater. – Building Materials of the Colosseum –

Ancient Roman brickwork – Building Materials of the Colosseum.

Antique original brick wall – Building Materials of the Colosseum.

Inside of Colosseum in Rome, Italy

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The building occupies the site of the Chapel of the Separation where, according to an apocryphal tradition, St Peter and St Paul bade a last farewell to each other before their separate martyrdoms. A relief of the two saints embracing has been set up on the wall.

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Centrale Montemartini

The entrance is through the yard at the side. The first thing that you see after the ticket office and coat check is a statue of Aphrodite in Pentelic marble, a copy of a 5th-century B.C. work by Callimachus. She stands in front of a massive cast-iron extraction pump emblazoned with the name of the manufacturer, Franco Tosi. This sets the tone for the whole museum. All the works are beautifully displayed and labelled (also in English). This is one of the most original and enjoyable museums anywhere in the world.

History of Centrale Montemartini

Built in 1912, this was the first public electrical plant to be opened in Rome, and was named after its designer, Giovanni Montemartini. Operated by diesel and steam, it provided enough power to illuminate half the streets and piazze of the city. It continued to function throughout the Second World War and only fell into disuse in 1963. It was restored by the Rome water and electricity board (ACEA) in 1990 as a superb exhibition space and is also of the greatest interest as a monument of industrial archaeology. Since 1997 some 400 Classical sculptures formerly kept in the Capitoline Museums have been exhibited here.

In this decommissioned electrical plant, the presentation of ancient statues between engines, gigantic boilers, metal pipes and jet-black turbines creates a amazing contrast.

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Exterior façade of the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine Roman. Rome

Santa Sabina basilica interior, built in Rome about 432 A.D on a classical rectangular form

Interior of the Basilica of Saint Sabina in Rome, Italy (2)

The centre portal of the narthex houses the oldest carved wooden door in Christian art, which was produced around 432. The reliefs wrought from African cedar, designed by unknown artists with sensitivity and expressive energy, show scenes from the Old and New Testament.

The double doors of cypress wood in the vestibule of the church of S. Sabina, which were carved by an unknown master in the 5th century, are among the oldest and finest wood reliefs that have survived.

18 out of the original 28 panels have been preserved, although not in their original order. In the five lateral rows of door panels, the following are easily recognizable from the top left to the right:

1st row: crucifixion, women with angel at the tomb, three Magi, disciples at Emmaus; 2nd row: healing the blind and the bread and wine miracle of Cana, Moses’ miracle of quails and manna, and the miracle of striking (he rock, the ascension of Christ, Christ above the church triumphantly crowned by St Peter and St Paul.

Crucifixion of Christ, Detail of the Central Portal

Detail from carved wooden door of Santa Sabina (1)

3rd row: Christ with the doubting Thomas, Christ appears to the women after his resurrection, the denial of St Peter, Habakkuk; 4th row: Moses with the burning bush and receiving the tablets of stone, Zacharias silent in the temple, passage through the Red Sea and the brazen snake, ascension of Elijah; 5th row: Pilate sentencing Christ, Jesus before Caiaphas or Moses before the pharaoh.

Rome – Jesus the Teacher fresco from church Santa Sabina

Rome – tree – symbol of Jesus life

On the inside, the 20m/66ft-high nave is bounded by 24 Corinthian columns of Parian marble. On the wall above the entrance is one of the oldest mosaics in Rome: the figures of two women who symbolize the »church from the heathen« (ecclesia ex gentibus) and the »church from the Jews« (ex circumcisione, from circumcision).

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An ancient residence, far below the modern street level, housed a sanctuary of Mithras in the 2nd century; in 385 a church dedicated to St. Clement, the third bishop of Rome after St. Peter, was constructed above it. After this church was destroyed by the Normans in 1084, construction of a basilica began in the 12th century.

Courtyard of the Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano in Rome, Italy.

In the upper church, the sequence of gate, vestibule with fountain, area for the congregation and schola cantorum with the high altar and apse is a reference to the old basilica plan. Features of the interior are ancient columns and Cosmatesque work on the marble floors and choir screens, the Easter candelabra, the altar tabernacle and the bishop’s throne. The triumphal arch and apse are covered with magnificent mosaics, which are among the most beautiful in Rome.

San Clemente Church – Apse mosaic, Rome, Italy

Mosaic details in San Clemente church, Rome, Italy

The ceiling of the Basilica di San Clemente

Heavenly imagery appears in intertwined biblical scenes with the tree of life and the cross, saints and symbolic flora and fauna such as the twelve sheep (apostles) approaching the Lamb of God. In the small Chapel of St Catherine at the front of the left-hand aisle, Renaissance frescoes by Masolino from the period before 1431 show scenes from the life of St Catherine of Alexandria – the first perspective paintings in the city. The lower church, a 4th-century basilica with columns dividing the nave from the two aisles, is decorated with Romanesque frescoes.

Virgin Mary in San Clemente church in Rome – Italy

The ascension of Christ in the nave, with Pope Leo IV bearing the square nimbus denoting a living benefactor, is particularly noteworthy. Finally, the excavations with the sanctuary of Mithras should not be missed. An altar with a relief showing the Persian god of light, Mithras, killing a bull, stands in the centre of the elongated room.

The Mithraeum – Basilica di San Clemente. A staircase leads from the left aisle of the Lower Church into the Roman dwelling, which is the oldest part of the site. In the late 2nd or early 3rd century A.D., a shrine to Mithras was erected here.

Basilica di San Clemente Opening Hours:  Mon.-Sat: 9 am-12.30 pm, 3 pm- 6 pm., Sun: 10 am-12.30 pm, 3 pm-6 pm.

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The historic headquarters of the Museum is the Baths complex built by Diocletian between the last years of the third century and the beginning of the fourth century A.D. (the dedicatory inscription dated 306 A.D. is conserved in a fragmentary state in the Museum). The building of the Baths, the largest in the ancient world, included many rooms besides the traditional calidarium, tepidarium and frigidarium — which were designed to hold 3.000 people at the same time.

A funerary slab in the baths of Diocletian in Rome. Italy

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National Roman Museum: The Baths of Diocletian 

The Roman National Museum, housed in the halls of Diocletian’s Baths and rooms of the former Carthusian monastery formed by converting part of the baths, is approached through a garden where steles, sarcophagi and reliefs are on display.

National Roman Museum, Rome – painting in the cloister of the former Carthusian monastery.

In the museum contains extensive archaeological finds from the early period of the Latin tribes, starting with the first traces of settlement and continuing to the rule of the Etruscan kings in the 7th century BC. Showcases and high-quality maps illustrate the everyday world of the Latin people with household pottery, everyday items, tools, weapons and many burial objects.

Ancient mosaic in baths of Diocletian (Thermae Diocletiani) in Rome. Italy

The ceramic urns used for funerary rites, in the form of a circular hut with animal decoration on the ridge as a protective spell, are very unusual. The cloister with its fountain and colonnades, conceived by Michelangelo and completed in 1565, is adorned with marble sculptures, architectural fragments, mosaics and inscriptions.

Ruins of the Baths of Diocletian (Thermae Diocletiani), Rome, Italy.

Ancient mosaic in baths of Diocletian (Thermae Diocletiani) in Rome. Italy (2)

National Roman Museum: Octagonal Hall

The Octagonal Flail stands at the southwest corner of the central complex of the Baths of Diocletian, in which it may have served as a passage area. In 1929 it was transformed into a Planetarium by Italo Gismondi. The hall recently underwent a thorough restoration that brought out all the beauty of the nearly intact octagonal setting, with its four semi-circular niches in the corners and the umbrella-shaped cupola with the central opening. The diameter of the hall is 22 meters. The restorers have preserved the iron structure that supported the ceiling-map of the heavens, in part because of its uniqueness, but also as a memento of the hall’s past history as a planetarium.

The Aula Ottagona gives an almost authentic impression of how the magnificent domed rooms of the enormous Baths of Diocletian must have looked. This room was originally the Sala della Minerva of the palaestra in the baths. Framed by numerous marble statues, Roman copies of Greek originals from the municipal baths of Rome, the two bronze sculptures in the centre of the hall immediately catch the eye: a larger-than-life, standing Hellenistic Prince (2nd century BC) with a muscular, idealized body, and an exhausted, Resting Boxer (late 4th or early 2nd century BC), represented in brutal realism with a bleeding eye, broken nose and lacerations on his body.

National Roman Museum: Palazzo Massimo 

Formerly the site of the preparatory school “Massimiliano Massimo”, the building was constructed in 1883-87 by Camillo Pistrucci in imitation of the noble residences of the early Roman baroque period. In 1960 the school was transferred to another facility and Palazzo Massimo fell victim to neglect; not until 1983 was it purchased by the State and designated as the site of the National Museum of Rome after undergoing years of complex restoration.

The collection at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme forms part of the National Roman Museum. It mainly displays material from the splendid houses of the senatorial class in Rome. These works, when viewed together with the items from the imperial palaces displayed at the Museo Palatino, provide a comprehensive panorama of the art of late republican and imperial Rome. The second floor of the palace is wholly devoted to a display of the most significant examples of Roman decorative painting and mosaic pavements found in Rome and Lazio, including some recent discoveries.

Mosaic Collection – Photo Gallery:

The display includes reconstructions of some interiors of important residential complexes, such as Livia’s villa at Prima Porta and the Villa della Farnesina on Via della Lungara. In particular the reconstruction of some interiors with the frescoes on the walls and stuccoed vaulting reveals the conceptual unity of the decoration, which is usually seen only as fragments.

The ground floor of Palazzo Massimo contains examples of iconography and portraiture from the late republican period, with a display of sculptural decorations from the residences of the wealthy classes. Many statues are Roman copies of Greek originals by great sculptors such as Lysippus and Praxiteles (both fourth century BC).

Frecoes – Photo Gallery:

The basement level has sections devoted to numismatics—covering ancient times, the Middle Ages and the present and a display of jewels and household items made of precious materials, mostly from imperial times. The artefacts mostly come from tombs regularly excavated, so the objects can be dated and understood in their cultural and historical setting and not viewed merely as collectors’ pieces. Among the exhibits is an unusual example of the embalmed body of a little girl with her tomb furnishings from Grottarossa (second century BC).

National Roman Museum: Palazzo Altemps

In the second half of the sixteenth century Cardinal Altemps decided to transform the family palace, under construction for a century, into “a home for statues.” Subsequently, however, the cardinal’s collection of ancient sculptures and his rich library were dispersed, a destiny shared by the majority of the patrician collections, which frequently changed hands.

Ancient Roman Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus at Palazzo Altemps, dating to 260 AD, is known for its densely populated composition of the battle between Romans and Goths.

Marble statue of Aphrodite by Cnidus at the Palazzo Altemps. Ancient Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th century.

sky above the Altemps palace courtyard, Museo Nazionale Romano

The building contains sixteen sculptures that once belonged to the Altemps collection and items from other important collections, like the Boncompagni Ludovisi and Mattei collections and the Egyptian collection of the Museo Nazionale Romano. The antiquarian reconstruction of the original Cinquecento setting was suggested by the close relations between the Ludovisi and Altemps collections, with pieces passing between the two families. Restoration of the interiors now enables visitors to admire the splendid statues at the same time as they view the magnificent building that houses them.

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The chapel, which was probably constructed by Giacomo da Pietrasanta between 1479 and 1483 and was renovated in 1750, has a travertine façade, one of the first Renaissance façades in Rome.

The interior, with a high nave that is almost as narrow as the two aisles, is dominated by the dome above crossing, from which the choir spaces open. Jacopo Sansovino’s Madonna del Parto (1521), Raphael’s Prophet Isaiah (1512) on the third pillar on the left and Caravaggio’s Madonna dei Pellegrini (1605) in the first chapel of the left aisle are also worthy of note.

Prophet Isaiah by Raphael, Basilica of Sant Agostino, Rome

Madonna del Parto (Madonna of Childbirth), Basilica of Sant Agostino, Rome, Italy.

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Santa Pudenziana’s 12th-century façade ivas restored and largely rebuilt in the 19th century, but the beautiful frieze around the doorway is a medieval original

The entrance is much below the level of the street and the mosaics on the façade are of St Peter and SS Pudens and Pudenziana. The original structure has been modified through several restorations; the bell tower was added in the 13th century.

There is a nave with two aisles made by fourteen supporting columns. The fourth-century mosaic of the apse is one of the most beautiful in Rome. In the centre, Christ sits on a throne before a small mountain topped by a jewelled cross. On the cross are the four symbolical images of the Evangelists.

On the right of the throne is St Paul, crowned by St Pudenziana, and on the left St Peter, crowned by St Praxedes. Under the high altar are vases found in the tombs of Praxedes and Pudentiana by Pope Pascal I in the ninth century which were probably used by them to collect the blood of the martyrs. In the chapel of St Peter on the left aisle is a portion of the wooden portable altar said to have been used by St Peter while he lived with Pudens, and by all the early popes till the time of Sylvester (the rest of this altar is in the Lateran) .

Rome – Jesus from facade of Santa Pudenziana church.

Rome – mosaic of Jesus the Teacher from Santa Pudenziana church, 4th century – restored in the 16th century

St. Peter is said to have lived in the Pudens household for seven years, and the church’s other prize is part of a table he is thought to have used as an altar for Mass.

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Colosseum to Santa Pudenziana:

Santa Pudenziana set in the Via Urbana, 1,2 km from (15 min walk) from Colosseum.  Bus Lines: 27, 70, 71, 81. Hours: times are variable; usually daily 8-noon, 4~6.

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