THE GUIDES BY IN ITALY TODAY
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and art itineraries in Italy
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| ROME (ROMA) |
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HISTORY OF ROME
Archaeological finds testify the presence of settlements
on the Palatino hills, as early as the middle of the 8th
Century BC. Little by little, the Roman community suffered
change under the Sabina, Etruscan and Greek civilizations.
The legend of a sort around the foundation of Rome on the
Palatino (753 BC legend of Romolo and Remo) testifies a
basis of real events: during the era of the Monarchy (8th-509
BC) battles and alliances with the Sabina race and Etruscans,
allowed the city’s formation due to the fact of fusion
of villages spread out in the hills surround Palantino.
[ROME Guide / HISTORY >>]
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ART OF ANCIENT ROME
Rome’s art, after having suffered Italian and Etruscan
influences, (decoration of the Giove Capitolino Temple,
Lupa bronzea dei Musei Capitolini (bronzes) since the 4th
Century BC, assumed peculiar characteristics after the conquest
of the Magna Grecia (Greater Greece) and the progressive
assimilation of Greek and Ellenistic art. The geometric-decorative
solutions with Greek derivations happily completed the realistic
tendencies originally from Latina, inspired above all for
religious reasons (learned from ancestors) and civilizations
(esaltazione della gens)...
[ROME Guide / ART >>]
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| VITERBO |
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The historical centre is still closed within the robust
belt of the medieval walls and is situated on the Cassia
Road, which leads to Rome. Viterbo still
seems like a medieval city and the monuments are perfectly
preserved.
All the provincial territory is of great touristic interest:
from the areas, rich in Etruscan testimony (Tarquinia, Tuscania,
Vulchi, Sutri, Blera), Roman (like Ferento), medieval and
renaissance (Viterbo, Caprarola, The Civita [Bagnoregio],
Bomarzo)...
[VITERBO Guide >>]
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