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New security measures in Rome. If you are planning to visit to the Colosseum, the Roman Forum or the Palatine Hill don't bring with you your backpack! Backpacks, luggage or large items are not admitted. There are no cloakroom facilities at the Colosseum.
Updated: Small backpacks are now admitted. No Trolleys.
Happy New Year! I am back and I am excited to share this link with you:
http://www.academic-travel.com/best-way-experience-rome/
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From May 3 until the end of October (with the exception of the month of August), every Friday the Vatican Museums will be open to the public from 7 pm to 11 pm.
Palatine Hill: imperial palace of the emperor Domitian (51-96 AD). It is still uncertain the precise function of this large building, also known as Domitian's stadium (Stadio di Domiziano) or "Circus Agonalis". The stadium was part of the imperial palace and was surrounded by a two-story portico.
I'm going to tell you something less know about the bronze statue of Maurcus Aurelius in Rome at Capitoline Hill in the Piazza del Campidoglio. Popular legend has it that theThe owl will sing heralding the end of the world and will fly away when all the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius "will be covered in gold", ie will return...
The most famous and tragic love story in Rome: the passionate love story between Raphael and Margherita Luti, knew under the nickname of Fornarina (the baker's daughter). Fornarina ispired several Raphael's paintings. It was a short and strong love with a tragic end. After a long night of passion, Raphael contracted fever.
Piazza Elio Callistio until the 50s of the last century, was named chair of the Devil. Actuallythe same hinabitants changed the name, tired of living in a place whit this name so evil! Today some of them have even lost their memory of the original function of this monument by the ominous name.