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Comenius Project

YOUNG GARDENERS FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING

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Gaio Cecilio Secondo SchoolSchool year 2008-2009


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Country: Italy

Region: Latium

City: Rome


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Rome is the capital city of Italy and of Latium, a region of centralItaly, and Rome Province. It lies on both banks of the Tiber and itsaffluent, the Aniene, between the Apennine Mts. and the TyrrhenianSea.

Building started in 753 B.C. and the Romans have a legendto explainhow this happened. Twin boys, Romulus and Remus, were taken fromtheir mother and left by the river Tiber to starve. A mother wolf

found the babies and looked after them until they were old enoughto take care of themselves. Years later, Mars (the Roman God ofwar) told the boys to build a city where they had been found. Thetwo boys built this city, but ended up at war with each other.Romulus won the battle and the city became known as Rome. Today,historians and archaeologists agree that people started living inRome long before the time of Romulus and Remus.


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For centuries, Rome has been called the Eternal City, a title earnedthrough its importance as one of the great cities of Westerncivilization, as the capital of the Roman Empire


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Rome


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COLOSSEUM

The original name for the Colosseum is the Anfiteatrum Flavium. It wasbuilt by emperor Vespasian and inaugurated in 80 A.D. by Vespasian's sonIt was used for shows (mostly gladiatorial combats and wild beast hunts)and navy-battles The Emperors box was placed in the center from where

he could decide the gladiators fate with a simple hand gesture.


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ROMAN FORUM

The Roman Forum was the centre of the civic and economic life of Rome inthe Republican era and kept its prominent role even in the Imperial age.The monumental complex lies between the Capitol, the Imperial Forums,the Colosseum and the Palatine. The importance of the Forum area is

indicated by the presence of many of the central political, religious andjudicial buildings in Rome.


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St. Peters Basilica

St. Peters Basilica is the largest church in the world. The splendidsquare and colonnade, Bernini's finest work, form a superbentryway to this church dominated by the magnificent Dome ofMichelangelo. One of the most important works of art inside is the

Piet sculpture by Michelangelo, that was created between 1498and 1500.


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Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore

This church stands on the Esquilino hill and is the first Roman church to

be named after the Holy Virgin. Its bell tower is the highest in Rome.


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Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano

This is the Cathedral of Rome, the most important church after

St. Peters. The first church was built in 314, when the EmperorConstantine gave the land to the Pope.


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Church "Dives in Misercordia"

The "Dives in Misericordia" Church, designed by Richard Meier, wasconsecrated in 2003. It is characterised by three high "sails" in

white concrete which represent the "voyage towards a new world


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Piazza Navona

This is a truly wonderful square. It has an unusual, elongated oval shape thatis the same as that of the ancient Domiziano Stadium over which the squarewas built. The predominating style is Baroque and there are so manymonuments and buildings to admire such as the Fontana dei Fiumi by Bernini,

which is the base of the Egyptian obelisk in the centre; Palazzo Pamphili andFontana del Moro.


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Piazza di Spagna

Piazza di Spagna is one of the most celebrated squares in Rome, with the

fountain of the Barcaccia, designed by Pietro Bernini in the earlyseventeenth century, at the centre. On the south side of the piazza is thestairway of Trinit dei Monti, a monumental eighteenth-century work, whichleads to the baroque church of the same name. Two of the most importantstreets in Rome, via Condotti and via Frattina lead away from the piazza.Many famous people once lived in the surrounding area, among them WagnerLiszt, Balzac, Stendhal, Rubens, Tennyson, Byron and Keats.


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Piazza del Popolo

This square is located at the top of the triangle that is formed by threelong streets: the central one is the famous Via del Corso. At the centreof the square there is an obelisk that was brought to Rome by theEmperor Augustus after he conquered Egypt. The magnificent Porta del

Popolo has two identical neoclassical buildings on each side of it.


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Trevi Fountain

This is the most famous fountain in Rome. Finished in 1762, it is one of thelast examples of Roman baroque. The statue of Neptune , surrounded byallegorical figures and by four statues representing the seasons, dominatesthe fountain. Below, two tritons drive the chariot of the Sea God.

According to legend, whoever throws a coin into the pond will return toRome.


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Galleria Borghese

Galleria Borghese has been defined by many people as the mostbeautiful museum in Italy and the world which hosts one of the richestart collection in the planet. The Gallery contains the most significantworks by the most brilliant Italian and foreign artists of the sixteenthand seventeenth centuries including Titian, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens

and Raphael. The statue of Paolina Borghese by Canova became thesymbol of Galleria Borghese


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Villa Borghese

Villa Borghese is a large landscape garden in the naturalisticEnglish manner, containing a number of buildings, museums

and attractions.


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Auditorium

The Auditorium (designed by Renzo Piano) is one of the most avant-garde

structures for musical performances in the world. The three concert hallshave the form of beetles and are located between trees and meadows.


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PalazzoPalazzodeideiCongressiCongressi

It can be considered the most magnificent building of the grandcomplex of the Universal Exhibition of Rome (EUR). It wasprojected in 1937 but it was completed in 1957. It is located in the

modern neighbourhood called EUR


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Palace of the Civilization of Labuor

The building is a large cube,which is broken by 416

arcades on its four sides. Thearcade motif is a classicalelement relating to thefamous archetypes of AncientRoman architecture like large

Roman theatres, theColosseum and the Theatre ofMarcellus. But it is reshapedand thus sculpturally revaluedby the use of classical column

orders to form the so-calledtabularium motif.


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Rome is divided into 19 administrativeareas, called municipalities and for

administrative reasons Rome is alsodivided into different types of non-administrative divisions.

The historic centre is divided into 22

rioni.

After the designation of the newest and last rione, Prati, newerdistricts of the city were designated as quarters. There are 35 of

these.

DISTRICTS IN ROME


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The District: Tuscolano

Tuscolano is a district situated 3 km

southeast of the city centre on the

suburbs of Rome. However the area is

well linked with the centre and all

major neighbourhoods by bus and

underground lines.


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Tuscolanian Way is a road built during the Middle Ages on the

ancient Roman way that started from Saint John Gate and arrivedto the ancient town ofTusculum(in the Roman Castles area). The

road gives its name to theTuscolanoquarter.

Tuscolanian Way


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Acquedotti Park

The Parco degli Acquedotti (Acquedotti Park)

is a public park that outlines the border of the quarter and

constitutes a historical landmark. It is named after the

aqueducts built in the Roman period


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Don Bosco Church

Saint John Bosco, commonly called Don Bosco, was thefounder of the Salesian Society, a Roman Catholic order. Thechurch was inaugurated in 1957.


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DON BOSCOSQUARE

Fellini used this square as the setting for some scenes of La Dolce Vita

since it was close to Cinecitt studios and resembled the Romes EUR

neighbourhood.


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CINECITTA STUDIOS

Cinecitt Studios: the centre of the Italian cinema, where alarge number of today's biggest box office hits are filmed.


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CINECITTASTUDIOS

Founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, the studios werebombed by the Western Allies during World War II.


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This is the first big shopping centre to open in Rome.The shops

are of the highest quality. Basically, there's everything:herbalists, hairdressers, jewelers, coffee bars, furniture stores,booksellers, sports shops.

CINECITTADUE

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