The monument to Victor Emmanuel II (Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II), also known as the Vittoriano, in Rome is a monument located in Piazza Venezia (Venice Square) next to the Capitol. In the center of the monument rises the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria), while inside the building is the museum on the […]
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The beautiful Villa D’Este is one of the Italian sites part of the World Heritage List of UNESCO. Villa d’Este was built at the request of Cardinal Hyppolite II d’Este, governor of the town of Tivoli from 1550. The Cardinal, disappointed not to have been elected Pope, wanted to revive in this villa the splendor […]
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Civita di Bagnoregio is a small city in the province of Viterbo in central Italy hamlet in the town of Bagnoregio, 2 km to the east of it, and about 145 km north of Rome. The village has been awarded the Most Beautiful Villages of Italy. It is also called the dying Italian village (la […]
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The Sistine Chapel, originally called Chapel of Sixtus, is one of the rooms of the Papal Vatican Palace. At present, it is part of the Vatican Museums. It is in the Sistine Chapel, traditionally since the fifteenth century, the cardinals gathered in conclave to elect the new pope (conclaves are also being held in the […]
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Trajan’s Column is a monument in Rome to celebrate the conquest of Dacia by Emperor Trajan: it evokes all the highlights of this territorial expansion. Column of Trajan was a novelty in ancient art. Trajan’s Column was completed in AD 113.
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