Spagna is a square in the centre of Rome, the capital of Italy. It lies at the foot of the Spanish Steps and owes its name to the Palazzo di Spagna,...
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Spanish Steps (section Piazza di Spagna)
Trinità dei Monti) in Rome, Italy, climb a steep slope between Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti...
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Santa Francesca Romana (Italian: Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana), previously known as Santa Maria Nova, is a Catholic church situated next to the...
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Roman Curia (redirect from Romana Curia)
The Roman Curia (Latin: Romana Curia) comprises the administrative institutions of the Holy See and the central body through which the affairs of the Roman...
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Museum of Roman Civilization (redirect from Museo della civiltà romana)
The Museum of Roman Civilization (Italian: Museo della Civiltà Romana) is a museum in the Esposizione Universale Roma district of Rome devoted to aspects...
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Insula dell'Ara Coeli (redirect from Insula Romana)
built with at least five stories. It has been evaluated that the insula romana could host around 380 people.[citation needed] Filippo Coarelli, Guida archeologica...
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Roman academies (redirect from Accademia Romana)
and possesses a notable library (53, B Via Margutta). The Accademia di Spagna was founded in 1881 (32, B Piazza San Pietro in Montorio). Finally, as formerly...
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Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square). Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to...
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to the south of the base of the Spanish Steps and east of the Piazza di Spagna. In November 1820, the English poet John Keats, who was dying of tuberculosis...
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the original mausoleum. Mausoleum of Hadrian, part of the Encyclopædia Romana by James Grout Platner and Ashby entry on the tomb on Lacus Curtius site...
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