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The 1960 Olympic Games represented a great opportunity for Rome and, as it usually happens in conjunction with the Olympic Games, new buildings, neighbourhoods, and structures, including Nervi’s sports hall were built. The structure was ...
The Music Bridge is the most recent one among the many bridges on the river Tiber. It is a bridge of the New Millennium, and it states it in a clear and charming way. It ...
Our route through Rome contemporary architectures could not fail to include the Auditorium Parco della Musica, by Renzo Piano. It is the result of an international competition announced in 1993 and won by the Italian ...
The mountain of Moses, also known as Fontana dell’Acqua Felice, was named after the aqueduct that feeds it, that is, in turn, named after the Pope who commissioned its restoration: Pope Sixtus V, born Felice ...
Speaking about contemporary art museums in Rome, we cannot leave out the MACRO. It houses a collection of modern art works that the Municipality of Rome started gathering at the end of the 19th century, ...
Here we are at another stage of our walk through Rome’s contemporary architectures: MAXXI, by Zaha Hadid. Zaha Hadid, Iranian architect who passed away at the end of March 2016, is no doubt one of the ...
Fontana delle Api (Fountain of the Bees) is one of Rome’s oldest fountains; it is located in the historic centre, close to Piazza Barberini, where Via Veneto enters the square. Its current configuration doesn’t correspond ...
Here we are with another episode of our story on Rome’s bridges; this time, we will tell you about one of the oldest ones: the Milvian Bridge. It was in fact one of the first ...
Close to Piazza Navona and hidden inside a courtyard, we find one of the gems of Roman baroque architecture, realized by a leading figure whom we already had a chance to meet in our articles: ...
Ponte Mazzini was built in Rome in the early 1900s, it is a commemorative bridge for Italian Risorgimento, realized between 1904 and 1908. The structure of Ponte Mazzini is quite simple and consistent with its ...
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