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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City. It was initially planned in the 15th century by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the ageing Old St. Peter's Basilica, which was built in the fourth century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, and Carlo Maderno, with piazza and fittings by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is one of the most renowned works of Italian Renaissance architecture and is the largest church in the world by interior measure. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world",and as "the greatest

Built to a design by the architect Ennio De Rossi in 1886, it was called the Vittorio Emanuele bridge when it had not yet been built[3]. The works were soon interrupted and resumed only in 1908 and inaugurated for the first time on 5 May 1911, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Unification of Italy, then again on 28 April 1912, with the definitive installation of the travertine groups[4]. It has three arches for a length of 110 m and is decorated at the ends by high bases with winged Victories and, in correspondence with the central pylons, by symbolic sculptural groups, whose technical design was carried out by the Allegri company. The bronze Victories are the work of the sculptors Elmo Palazzi, Luigi Casadio, Amleto Cataldi and Francesco Pifferetti. The sculptural groups were created (and inaugurated) in travertine the following year by Giuseppe Romagnoli for La fidelity to the Statute (after the battle of Novara, 1849); Italo Griselli for Il Valore Militare (the ....

Ponte Principe Amedeo Savoia Aosta, also known as Principe bridge or PASA bridge from its acronym, is a bridge that connects the Lungotevere dei Sangallo to Piazza Della Rovere, in Rome, in the Ponte, Trastevere and Borgo districts.

At the time of the foundation of Rome, the Trastevere area was a hostile land that belonged to the Etruscans of Veii (litus tuscus or ripa veiens), disputed with the newborn city because it was strategic for the control of the river, the ford of the Tiber island and the ancient river port. It was then connected with the rest of the city via the Sublicius pons, from which the Via Campana started towards the salt pans on the Tyrrhenian Sea and later the Via Aurelia towards the Etruscan cities. In the Republican era it was populated by those workers whose activities were linked to the river, such as sailors and fishermen, together with oriental immigrants, mainly Jews and Syrians. For this reason, some temples of oriental cults arose in the area, including the so-called Syriac Sanctuary on the Janiculum. The consideration of the area as part of the city begins with the emperor Augustus, who divided the territory of Rome into 14 regions; ....

Since the royal era, the area was consecrated to the god Mars, and used for military exercises. It is said that here, near the Palus Caprae, the first king of Rome, Romulus, was taken to heaven.[1] Tarquinius the Proud took it over and had it cultivated for wheat. According to a legend, during the revolt that caused the king's expulsion, the sheaves of that wheat were thrown into the river, giving rise to the Tiber Island. With the beginning of the Republican era, the Campus Martius returned to a public area and was reconsecrated to the god. It was the seat of the comitia centuriata, assemblies of the people in arms. The southernmost part of the plain, starting from the slopes of the Capitoline Hill (where the remains of the Theater of Marcellus and the portico of Ottavia are currently visible) was distinct from the actual Campus Martius, with the toponym of Circo Flaminio. The area was crossed by the Via Flaminia, the urban part of which took the name of Via Lata (now Via del Corso.

The Promenade of the Janiculum, from which you can enjoy one of the most evocative views of the historic center of Rome, is made up of two large avenues lined with plane trees, bordering the Villa Aurelia, which meet in Piazzale Garibaldi. They then continue along a single road that winds down towards the church of Sant'Onofrio, built to complete the Walk in 1939. The area, theater of the heroic events of the fighters for the Roman Republic in 1849, was transformed in 1883 by the new Italian institutions into a public promenade and dedicated to the memory of the Defense of Rome. At the edges of the avenues there are 84 busts of the illustrious Garibaldians who fought for the defense of Rome in 1849. Among the main monuments are the equestrian statue of Emilio Gallori dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi and the equestrian monument to Anita Garibaldi created by Mario Rutelli in 1930s and the lighthouse donated to the city by the Italians of Argentina on the occasion of the fiftieth ...