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Au Revoir to Geneva/ Ciao to Rome
A Travel Blog entry by pathfinder35 from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... the road thus explaining why there were no taxis. We decided to walk since Andy had studied the map and thought he could find the Empire Palace Hotel - it was about 1 km away from the station. And we did find it without asking for directions - I ...
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La Dolce Vita 1) Rome: Ruins of an Empire
A Travel Blog entry by drfumblefinger from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... played a greater influence on the development of the western world. About 2000 years ago Romans thought their city (and its empire) represented the entire civilized world. To be Roman was to be civilized. To be anything but ...
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Ancient Rome: the Colosseum and the Roman Forum
A Travel Blog entry by poppka01 from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... quarters. The ruins are huge; I can only dream of what they were like during the height of the Roman Empire! In the middle of the palace area is the Palatine Museum, which was built by Mussolini as his own mansion. He chose this site ...
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Full day in Rome
A Travel Blog entry by jbrasher from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... 8220;adopting” is what kept the peace, although it wasn’t always completely peaceful, it was much better than what the empire had been like previously. Leaving the grounds of Palatine Hill we make our way to the Roman Forum. The Forum was the ...
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Rome, Italy
A Travel Blog entry by ldanroy from Rome, Latium, Italy
After the Egyptian Civilization; after the Greek Civilization; the Roman Empire became the dominate civilization of man. For over 300 years, Rome controlled the known world. So it was fitting that after Athens, we sailed to Italy and today we docked at ...
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Rome, Italy
A Travel Blog entry by tbassplayer from Rome, Italy
... the city. They have begun to excavate beneath the palace and have found the remains of the earlier emperors houses that Domitian´s palace was built on top of. The house of the Emperor Augustus was restored and reopened just three days before we arrived ...
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Ruins in Rome
A Travel Blog entry by tomfonder from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... former city centre - with some structures remaining surprisingly in tact - to a residential district and palace gardens upon a hill that overlooks all of Rome. From above, the city is strikingly beautiful; a melting pot of towering historic buildings and ...
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Historial Rome - 'Super bad arse'!
A Travel Blog entry by jennifer.locke from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... Ahenobarbas) was the great grandson of Julius Caesar. The name "Caesar" was retained by all succeeding emperors in the Roman Empire, after Julius Caesar, most famous for being the dictator who seized power when Rome was still a republic. (Julius Caesar ...
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When in Rome...
A Travel Blog entry by siandnel from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... Nouovo, (the original having been abandoned in the Middle Ages) has the original stones, with ruts of chariots and carts from Roman Empire times. As we walked the road, we came to the Tomb of Cecilia Metella a rich noblewoman of some note but ...
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Rome - pedestrian road kill
A Travel Blog entry by mbackho from Rome, Italy
... to walk down the street surrounded by huge buildings and sculptures - still standing - is pretty mind blowing. The whole palace ruins on the Palatine hill (original site of the city) is awe-inspiring in its size. Before the church raped ...
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Rome/Vatican
A Travel Blog entry by robbiesmom from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... to see some of the major landmarks: an aqueduct, the Circus Maximus (no longer standing; only an empty field remains), the palace of the emperors, and what is left standing of the original city walls. We snapped some hasty pictures from the bus and ...
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Rome wasn't built in a day... but Rome was built!
A Travel Blog entry by brad2512 from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... nucleus of the city. The site once featured a village, castle and temples and later became the site of the principal palace for Rome's Emperors. Other than a couple of walls and some foundations, there is not much left of the buildings which once occupied ...
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Original Roman Capital
A Travel Blog entry by jeffreynak from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... back to the main ruins near the Colosseum, to see the Roman Forum, the heart of the old empire and Palatine Hill, where the Emperor's Palace once stood. Rome is a completely different place to see a towns old history. Previously I have seen ruins in the ...
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Day 10 & 11 - June 1 & 2, 2008 - Ola Roma
A Travel Blog entry by flaljee from Rome, Italy
... vacation. So we quickly put the incident behind us. Once in Rome, we took a taxi to our hotel. The hotel (Eurostars International Palace) is nothing short of classy. It is a very quaint but posh hotel with a very decidedly Roman decor. I had learnt ...
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GELATO!!! AWSOMENESS
A Travel Blog entry by caitlinmateer from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... of Rome LoL... we started by seeing the Forum, for those who arent my dad the Forum was the central hub for the Roman Empire, unfortuantly its all in rubble but you get the main idea and we had a Roman Empire historian for a guide who made it ...
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Roma e tutta la sua gloria!
A Travel Blog entry by maclaren from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... not stone as I had always perceived. After I had visited all the sights I did find several drawings of what Rome had looked like at the peak of its Empire. Now obviously I had just visited one of the first sporting arenas in the world, which in its self ...
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Popes and Emperors
A Travel Blog entry by chaletaria from Rome, Latium, Italy
... in the Tiber. 313 Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan granting freedom of religion throughout the Empire (not specifically for Christians- it only referred to Supreme Divinity). Licinius defeated Maximinus in the east while Constantine ...
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Roman ruins
A Travel Blog entry by chaletaria from Rome, Lazio, Italy
... of Rome. Straight ahead was the lovely Palazzo Venzia building with its Michelangelo planned steps up. The beautiful white marble palace was straight in front of us. It was originally the Pope’s residence in the 13th C and Mussolini’s ...
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Weekend
A Travel Blog entry by sena from Rome, Italy
... the gardens. It was really nice to be out of the city to see these things. After the Farnese Palace we made our way back to Rome. Yesterday three friends and I decided to do some sightseeing of our own. We found the ...
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... )If and when we return to Rome, we will, without question, stay here again. A wonderful way to experience Rome! from anonymous The Empire Palace Hotel is a class act from the moment you arrive at the door! The hotel itself is gorgeous; its ...
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