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The Domes of Rome
St Peter's Basilica
Domes are an integral part of the Roman skyline and there are more then seventy churches in the Eternal City that sport one. The oldest, by a long margin, belongs to Santa Maria Rotonda (better known as the Pantheon), while the largest crowns St Peter's Basilica.
Sant' Andrea della Valle
San Carlo al Corso
Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano
San Carlo ai Catinari
Santi Luca e Martina
Santa Maria di Loreto
Chiesa del Gesu
Sant' Agnese in Agone
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- Sant' Andrea della Valle
- Sant' Andrea delle Fratte
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- Sant' Ignazio di Loyola
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- Santa Maria Maddalena
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- Santa Prassede
- Santa Pudenziana
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- Santa Susanna
- Santi Apostoli
- Santi Cosma e Damiano
- Santi Domenico e Sisto
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Santi Luca e Martina
- Santi Nereo e Achilleo
- Santi Quattro Coronati
- Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio
- Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli
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- Santissimo Nome di Maria
- Santo Stefano Rotondo
- Palatine
- Forum
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Ancient Monuments
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- Portico of Octavia
- Pyramid of Cestius
- Temple of Hadrian
- Temple of Hercules
- Temple of Portunus
- Theatre of Balbus
- Theatre of Marcellus
- Theatre of Pompey
- Tomb of Caecilia Metella
- Via Appia
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Obelisks
- 'Minerveo' Obelisk
- 'Flaminio' Obelisk
- 'Matteiano' Obelisk
- 'Lateran' Obelisk
- 'Dogali' Obelisk
- 'Macuteo' Obelisk
- 'Solare' Obelisk
- 'Vatican' Obelisk
- 'Agonalis' Obelisk
- 'Sallustiano' Obelisk
- 'Quirinale' Obelisk
- 'Esquiline' Obelisk
- 'Pinciano' Obelisk
- 'Mediceo' Obelisk
- 'Torlonia' Obelisks
- 'Mussolini' Obelisk
- 'Marconi' Obelisk
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Mosaics
- Gallery
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- Galleries & Museums
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Miscellaneous
- A Calendar of Saints
- A Literary Tour
- Antico Caffè Greco
- Art of the Cosmati
- Babington's Tea Rooms
- Barberini Bees
- Cloisters
- Bernini
- Borromini & the Baroque
- Catacombs
- Column of the Immaculate Conception
- Domes
- Equestrian Statues
- EUR
- Fasces
- Flood Plaques
- Funerary Monuments
- House of the Owls
- Jewish Ghetto
- Jubilee Years
- Knights of Malta
- Mithraism
- Monumental Complex of S. Spirito in Sassia
- Ponte Sisto
- Porta Pia
- 'Protestant' Cemetery
- Quartiere Coppedè
- Scala Santa
- Spanish Steps
- 'Talking' Statues
- Tiber Island
- Villa Borghese
- Vittoriano
- On This Day in Italy
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- Canons' Palace
- Casa-Galleria Vichi
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- Column of St Zenobius
- Cosimo I de' Medici
- Cosimo II de' Medici
- Costanza Bonarelli
- David With Fig Leaf
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Equestrian Statue of Cosimo I de' Medici
- Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando I de' Medici
- Festina Lente
- Flood Plaques
- Fontana del Bacchino
- Fontana dei Puttini
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountains of the Marine Monsters
- Gian Gastone de' Medici
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Images of the Annunciation
- Little Devil
- Monument to Cellini
- Palazzo Bartolini-Salimbeni
- Palazzo Bianca Cappello
- Palazzo Fenzi
- Palazzo Viviani
- Perseus and Medusa
- Piazza Santa Maria Novella
- Pope Leo XI
- Porta della Mandorla
- Rape of the Sabine Woman
- Santa Maria Novella
- Statue of Dante
- Theft of the Century
- Torre del Arnolfo
- Twelve Good Men
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- Wheel of the Innocents
- 'Wine Windows'
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- Bartolomeo Colleoni
- Barque of Dante
- Caffè Florian
- Daniele Manin
- Flagpoles
- Giustina Rossi
- Gondolas
- Harry's Bar
- Henry James
- House of Three Eyes
- Island of Lace
- King Victor Emmanuel II
- Map of Venice
- Martinmas
- Master of the House
- Palazzo Contarini Fasan
- Ponte Borgoloco
- Ponte Chiodo
- Punta del Dogana
- Scacciadiavoli
- Shrine of St Lucia
- Sior Antonio Rioba
- The 'Book Shitter'
- The Lion's Mouth
- Tommaso Rangone
- Torcello
- Venus
- 'Viennese Oranges'
- Wellheads
- Winged Lions
-
Florence
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