Saturday, December 10, 2011

Attractions of Rome

Vatican Museums

These Vatican museums serve as a large store of the treasures of antiquity and the Renaissance, which took place in luxurious palaces, galleries and apartments leading to the Sistine Chapel. They occupy a portion of the papal palaces were built from 1200. The highlights include the Gregorian Egyptian apartments, Borgia, the Ethnological Museum, the Raphael Rooms, Pinacoteca and the Vatican library.

National Gallery

The Palazzo Barberini is one of the most outstanding baroque palaces of Rome. within and vision are the luxurious apartments and rococo decorative art gallery are part of the National Gallery of Ancient Art.

The Coliseum

Despite its present shell, the Coliseum is still the greatest architectural legacy of Rome. The elliptical bowl seating 50,000 which debuted in 80 with fighting involved sangrietos where gladiators and wild beasts.

Circus Maximus

The elongated oval of Circus Maximus, in his day, always a espacion than 250,000 seats of Ben-Hur-style gladiator action and was only surpassed by the magnificent structure of ancient Rome is the Coliseum. and was saqueda dilapidated by the Renaissance and medieval builders looking for marble and stone.

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