Vatican City, St. Peter's Square
The Vatican, Great Hall of Tapestries
The Swiss Guard.....
St Peter's
The Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo painted the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. The ceiling, and especially
The Last Judgment (1535–1541), is widely believed to be Michelangelo's crowning achievement in painting.
Almost two thousand years after it was built,
the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft). It is one of the best preserved of all Roman buildings. These dimensions make more sense when expressed in ancient Roman units of measurement. The dome spans 150 Roman feet; the oculus is 30 Roman feet in diameter; the doorway is 40 Roman feet high.
The Trevi Fountain was easily Céline's favourite spot in Rome.
The fountain at the junction of three roads (
tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8.1 mi) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's façade.) However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14 mi). It served Rome for more than four hundred years.
The
Colosseum, or the
Coliseum, originally the
Flavian Amphitheatre, is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of Rome, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction started in 72 AD. Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era.
