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Things To Do > Tours > Walking Tours
After taking many photographs and taking a nice stroll through Palatine Hill, we decided to walk over to the Colosseum, which is essentially next-door! On the way to Colosseum, we saw quite a few gladiators...
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Things To Do > Tours > Walking Tours
It’s hard to believe you’re walking into a whole different country as you enter into Vatican City – with the Pope as the ruler. Ironically enough, however, St. Peter’s church is not the highest church...
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Things To Do > Attractions > Museums
The Uffizi palace was designed and begun in 1560 by the architect Giorgio Vasari in the period when Cosimo de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany, was bureaucratically consolidating his recent takeover of power. Built...
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Tradition has it that throwing a coin over your left shoulder into the fountain guarantees a swift return to the world's most beautiful city. Anita Ekberg's dip in it was immortalized in Fellini's 'La Dolce...
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Things To Do > Tours > Walking Tours
We approached the Forum by detouring off the Via Nazionale, walking past the Torre delle Milizie. It was rumoured that it was from here that Nero had “watched Rome burn,” but this red brick tower...
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Things To Do > Attractions > Museums
We have an early reservation at Accademia. What the reservation allows us to do is stand in the "reservation" line which is not clearly marked and can only be identified by asking people already...
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Things To Do > Attractions > Tourist Attractions
Commissioned by Marcus Agrippa, restored by Domitian, and subsequently rebuilt by Hadrian (who added the dome) before being turned into a church in the early 7th century by Pope Boniface IV. The building's sole source...
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St. Peter’s Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro) is the largest church in the world and it is within the walls of Vatican City. It is a good idea to combine both the Vatican Museums and St....
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Things To Do > Shopping > Retailers
My sister and I, along with our husbands, had already decided that on this trip to Venice, we were each going to “splurge” and buy a lovely piece of Murano glass as a souvenir....
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Things To Do > Attractions > Tourist Attractions
The building of Santa Croce basilica began in 1294. Giotto's frescoes in the chapels at the head of the transept are considered to be some of the finest examples of fourteenth-century painting, while the architect...
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