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Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary
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Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) also known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II) or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument built in honour of Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.
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A building on via del Corso. Rome 2007
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Raphael's "Madonna della seggiola" by a street artist. Rome 2007
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A souvenir store. The Michelangelo's David's underpants. Rome 2007
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Construction site in Piazza della Rotonda. Rome 2007
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Palazzo Giustiniani, late XVIth century. Rome 2007
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The Fontana del Nettuno (Fountain of Neptune). The basin part (without the sculptures) was designed in 1574 by Giacomo Della Porta, who also designed the Moor Fountain at the other side of the square.
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Fontana del Nettuno. In 1878 Antonio della Bitta added the sculpture of "Neptune fighting with an octopus", and Gregorio Zappalà created the other sculptures, based on the mythological theme of the "Nereids with cupids and walruses".
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La Fontana del Moro (the Moor Fountain). It represents a Moor, or African (perhaps originally meant to be Neptune), standing in a conch shell, wrestling with a dolphin, surrounded by four Tritons. It is placed in a basin of rose-colored marble.
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La Fontana del Moro
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Palazzo Massimo di Pirro (or palazzo Istoriato) and the only column left from the Odeon. The building owes its name to a statue of Mars found during local excavations, and originally mistaken for king Pyrrhus.
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Palazzetto Massimi (or Palazzetto Istoriato - "Illustrated"), an annex of palazzo Massimo, was once covered with frescoes by Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze (1523), now almost completely lost.
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A small roof garden. Rome 2007
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In Piazzetta dei Massimi
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A window. Rome 2007
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Baracco museum. Rome 2007
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View to the Colosseum across the Roman Fori
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Palazzo Senatorio on the left, Palazzo Nuovo on the right. Campidoglio. Rome 2007
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Campidoglio. Rome 2007
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Campidoglio. Rome 2007
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Campidoglio, Capitoline Museums, Sala Marco Aurelio. Remaining fragments of the colossal acrolithic statue - Colossus of Constantine (312-315 AD). White marble, brick, wood, gilded bronze.
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Fragments of the Colossus of Constantine
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Tigress Attacking a Calf
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Tigress attacks
