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District of Rome
Latium - Italy

Gardens of Lucullus

The Gardens of Lucullus (Horti Lucullani) were the setting for an ancient patrician villa on the Pincian Hill on the edge of Rome; they were laid out by Lucius Licinius Lucullus about 60 BCE. The Villa Borghese gardens still cover 17 acres (69,000 m²) of green on the site, now in the heart of Rome, above the Spanish Steps.

Located at 41.908, 12.484 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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1st-century BC architecture, Ancient Roman architecture, Ancient gardens in Rome, Landscape design history, Persian gardens in Italy

Spanish Steps

The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. The Scalinata is the widest staircase in Europe.

Located at 41.906, 12.4832 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Stairways, Buildings and structures in Rome, Roman Baroque, Buildings and structures completed in 1725, Piazzas in Rome, Visitor attractions in Rome

Triton Fountain

The Triton Fountain (Italian Fontana del Tritone) is a seventeenth century fountain in Rome, by the well-known Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica) that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's family. The fountain was executed in travertine in 1642–43.

Located at 41.9036, 12.4883 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Fountains in Rome, 1643 works, Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 17th-century sculptures, Marble sculptures

Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini

Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, or Our Lady of the Conception of the Capuchins, is a church in Rome, Italy, commissioned in 1626 by Pope Urban VIII, whose brother, Antonio Barberini, was a Capuchin friar. It is located at Via Veneto, close to Piazza Barberini.

Located at 41.9046, 12.4887 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Roman Catholic churches in Rome, 1630s architecture, Ossuaries, Roman Catholic congregations established in the 17th century, House of Barberini, Visionary environments

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, or National Gallery of Ancient Art, is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, located on two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini. The Palazzo Barberini was designed for Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family, by Italian architect Carlo Maderno (1556–1629) on the old location of Villa Sforza.

Located at 41.9035, 12.4902 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Art museums and galleries in Rome, Palaces in Rome, National museums of Italy

Ludovisi (rione of Rome)

Ludovisi is the XVI rione (historic district) of Rome. Its coat of arms has three golden bands and a golden dragon, everything on a red background. It is the coat of arms of the noble Ludovisi family, which here owned the beautiful villa bearing the same name. The villa and the surrounding gardens, except few annexes, were destroyed at the end of nineteenth century to build the new district. The most important street of the rione Ludovisi is Via Veneto.

Located at 41.9072, 12.4909 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Rioni of Rome

Palazzo Barberini

Palazzo Barberini is a palace in Rome, facing the Piazza Barberini in Rione Trevi. It houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.

Located at 41.9036, 12.4903 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Palaces in Rome, House of Barberini, Roman Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini buildings, Houses completed in 1633, Baroque palaces

St Andrew's Church, Rome

St Andrew's Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland in Rome, Italy, belonging to the Church's Presbytery of Europe. The current minister is Rev. William B. McCulloch. The congregation began in the early 1860s with a small group of Scots and American presbyterians who met in the neighbourhood of the Spanish Steps. A first building was opened in 1871 near the Porta Flaminia.

Located at 41.9031, 12.4917 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Church of Scotland churches, Protestant churches in Rome, Religious buildings completed in 1885, 19th-century Church of Scotland church buildings, Presbyterian churches in Europe

Trinità dei Monti

The church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti, often called merely the Trinità dei Monti is a late Renaissance titular church in Rome, central Italy. It is best known for its commanding position above the Spanish Steps which lead down to the Piazza di Spagna. The church and its surrounding area are the property of the French State.

Located at 41.9064, 12.4836 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Titular churches in Rome, Renaissance architecture in Rome, Religious buildings completed in 1585, 19th-century church buildings, Roman Catholic churches in Rome

Gardens of Sallust

The Gardens of Sallust were Roman gardens developed by the Roman historian Sallust in the 1st century BC. The landscaped pleasure gardens occupied a large area in the northwestern sector of Rome, in what would become Region VI, between the Pincian and Quirinal hills, near the Via Salaria and later Porta Salaria. The modern rione is now known as Sallustiano.

Located at 41.905, 12.4894 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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1st-century BC architecture, Ancient Roman architecture, Ancient gardens in Rome, Pleasure gardens, Landscape design history

Villa Medici

The Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French State, has housed the French Academy in Rome since 1803. A musical evocation of its garden fountains features in Ottorino Respighi's Fontane di Roma.

Located at 41.908, 12.483 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Villas in Rome, Fountains in Rome, Buildings and structures completed in 1544, Renaissance architecture in Rome, Mannerist architecture in Italy, Medici villas

La Civiltà Cattolica

La Civiltà Cattolica (Italian for Catholic Civilization) is a periodical published without interruptions by the Jesuits in Rome, Italy since 1850 and is among the oldest of Catholic Italian periodicals. All of the journals articles are the collective responsibility of the entire "college" of the magazines writers even if published under a single author's name.

Located at 41.9057, 12.4855 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Jesuit publications, Italian magazines, Vatican City media, Publications established in 1850, Roman Catholic newspapers and magazines

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute of Art History

The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute of Art History is located in Rome, Italy. It was founded by a donation of Henriette Hertz in 1913 as a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Of the 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft), it is one of three not located in Germany. Since 1990, the Bibliotheca Hertziana has awarded the Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize every second year for outstanding merit in the field of Italian art and architectural history.

Located at 41.9053, 12.4842 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Libraries in Rome, Max Planck Society, Research institutes in Italy, History institutes, 1913 establishments in Italy

Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum

The Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum or simply Collegium Germanicum is a German-speaking seminary for Roman Catholic priests in Rome, founded in 1552. Since 1580 its full name has been Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe.

Located at 41.905, 12.4919 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Roman Colleges, Educational institutions established in the 1550s, 1552 establishments

Capuchin Crypt

The Capuchin Crypt is a small space comprising several tiny chapels located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto near Piazza Barberini in Rome, Italy. It contains the skeletal remains of 4,000 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars buried by their order. The Catholic order insists that the display is not meant to be macabre, but a silent reminder of the swift passage of life on Earth and our own mortality.

Located at 41.9046, 12.4887 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Visitor attractions in Rome, Buildings and structures in Rome, Cemeteries in Italy, Ossuaries, Visionary environments

San Nicola da Tolentino agli Orti Sallustiani

Not be confused with the church of San Nicolò da Tolentino in Venice, the Basilica di San Nicola in the town of Tolentino in the province of Macerata, or the Oratorio di San Nicola da Tolentino in Vicenza. San Nicola da Tolentino agli Orti Sallustiani is a church in Rome. It is one of the two national churches of Armenia. The church was built for the Discalced Augustinians in 1599, and originally dedicated to the 13th century Augustinian monk, St.

Located at 41.9053, 12.4911 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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National churches in Rome

Spagna (Rome Metro)

Spagna is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro, which was inaugurated in 1980. It is situated in the Campus Martius and is named after the nearby Piazza di Spagna. The station has an entrance near the Villa Borghese at the top of the Spanish Steps. This entrance has outdated signage indicating that the A Line only travels between Anagnina and Ottaviano, a sign dating to before 2000. Another entrance is located up a short back street from the Piazza di Spagna.

Located at 41.9065, 12.4831 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Line A stations, Railway stations opened in 1980, 1980 establishments in Italy

Barberini – Fontana di Trevi (Rome Metro)

Barberini - Fontana di Trevi is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro inaugurated in 1980 and situated under Piazza Barberini in Trevi. Originally, the station was simply named Barberini, but this was extended in 2000. The entrance hall of the station accommodates some mosaics of the Rome Artemetro Prize. The creators of the displayed mosaics are Graziano Navy and Heinz Mark.

Located at 41.9039, 12.4889 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Line A stations, Railway stations opened in 1980

Piazza Barberini

Piazza Barberini is a large piazza in the centro storico or city center of Rome, Italy and situated on the Quirinal Hill. It was created in the 16th century but many of the surrounding buildings have subsequently been rebuilt. The current appellation was given in 1625 when it was named after the Palazzo Barberini, the substantial Baroque palace built in an elevated position on the south side of the piazza for the Barberini.

Located at 41.9039, 12.4883 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Piazzas in Rome, House of Barberini

Porta Pinciana

Porta Pinciana is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome. The name derives from the gens Pincia, who owned the eponymous hill. In ancient times it was also called Porta Turata ("Plugged Gate", for it was partially closed) and Porta Salaria vetus, as the oldest Via Salaria passed under it (the Via Salaria nova passed under the Porta Salaria). The gate was built under the emperor Honorius in the early 5th century, by adapting a previous smaller service entrance.

Located at 41.9094, 12.4883 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Ancient gates in the Aurelian Walls, 5th-century architecture

Via Veneto

Via Veneto is one of the most famous and expensive streets in Rome, Italy. The official name is via Vittorio Veneto, after the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. Federico Fellini's classic 1960 film La Dolce Vita was mostly centered around the Via Veneto area.

Located at 41.9061, 12.4897 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Shopping districts and streets in Rome

Palazzo Margherita

Palazzo Margherita, or palazzo Piombino, is a palazzo on Via Veneto in Rome. It was built from 1886 to 1890 by Gaetano Koch for prince Rodolfo Boncompagni Ludovisi, prince of Piombino, on a now-vanished portion of the Villa Ludovisi. The high cost of the palace forced the prince to sell it to the Italian state. The palace is named after queen Margherita of Savoy, who lived there after the assassination of her husband Umberto I in Monza in 1900, till her death in 1926.

Located at 41.9068, 12.4908 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Palaces in Rome, Diplomatic missions of the United States, Diplomatic missions in Rome, Register of Culturally Significant Property, Ambassadorial residences, Residential buildings completed in 1890, Italy–United States relations

Fontana delle Api

The Fontana delle Api is a fountain located in the Piazza Barberini in Rome where the Via Veneto enters the piazza. It was sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini completed in the April 1644. It consists of a marble bi-valve shell with three bees of the same material resting on it. The fountain was intended to be a watering trough for horses. An inscription on the shell reads "Urban VIII Pont. Max.

Located at 41.9043, 12.4887 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountains in Rome, 1644 works, Animals in art, 17th-century sculptures, Marble sculptures

Palazzetto Zuccari

Not to be confused with Palazzo Zuccari in Florence. Palazzetto or Palazzo Zuccari is a 16th-century building in Rome, at the crossroads of via Sistina and via Gregoriana, on the piazza Trinità dei Monti. It was built by Federico Zuccari.

Located at 41.9056, 12.4839 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Palaces in Rome, Mannerist architecture in Italy

Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case

Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case is a Franciscan monastic complex and college in the Ludovisi district on the Pincian Hill in Rome. Its church building is the Irish national church in Rome. It contains the Cappella Da Sylva, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who also designed the funerary monument of his son Paolo Valentino Bernini in it. The monastery was founded by a gift from the nobleman Ottaviano Vestri di Barbiano, as shown in a bull of pope Urban VIII of 1625.

Located at 41.9061, 12.4867 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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National churches in Rome, Franciscan monasteries in Italy, Monasteries in Rome