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Basilica di San Pietro
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The Basilica di San Pietro, which can accommodate 20,000 worshipers, is about 190 meters, the width of the three aisles of 58 feet, the nave is high even at the height of 45.50 meters time, the dome reaches 136 meters some height up to cross the interior, characterized by extensive mosaic work, are the valuable asset for some of the most famous works of art in the world, such as the canopy of Bernini and the statue of the Pieta by Michelangelo.
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Castel Sant Angelo
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Built around 123 d.C. as a tomb for Emperor Hadrian and his family, Castel Sant Angelo has an unusual destiny in the art-historical landscape of the capital.
While all the other Roman monuments are overwhelmed, reduced to ruins or caves to be recycled into materials for opening new, modern buildings, the castle - through a barrage of developments and changes that seem to slip into one another seamlessly Continuity - accompanied by almost two thousand years the fortunes and history of Rome.
Funerary monuments at a fortified outpost, from dark and terrible prison in beautiful Renaissance mansion that sees active within its walls Michelangelo and prison Risorgimento Museum, Castel Sant Angelo embodied in the solemn spaces Romania, the mighty walls, in the magnificent frescoed halls, the events of the eternal city where past and present are inextricably linked.
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museums Vaticani
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The first nucleus, a harvest of ancient sculptures, was constituted by Giulio II (1503 -13).The idea of the museum was born with Clemente XIII (1758 -69), that made to prepare the Profane Museum with the assistance of the Winckelmann. With Clemente XIV (1769 -74) and Pious You (1775 -99) the Pious Museum Clementino is born and in 1807-10, under Pious VII, is prepared by the Canova the Museum Chiaramonti
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CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS
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Capitoline Museums: Founded in 1471 by Pope Sixtus IV to the Roman people with the donation of the bronze statue of the Lateran (the wolf, the Spinario, the Camillo and the colossal head of Constantine with the hand and the orb of power), is considered the oldest public museum in the world, the return of these works - a sign of the past grandeur of Rome - to the people of the city he acquired a more symbolic value, since the Capitol was always the center of religious life in ancient Rome and, after a long period of neglect, the seat of civil courts since the Middle Ages. .
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