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Roman Forums: Trajan's column and genesis of the Romanian people
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  • Updated by Fam_Stoica on May 15, 2006
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  • Favorite Thing: Rome was the capital of the most powerful empire in the antiquity. A part of this empire was Dacia - now Romania. The Trajan's column shows the most remarcable aspects of the war between the Romans and our ancestors; it takes place in the complex of the Trajan’s Forum planned by the famous architect Apollodor from Damascus. In the plinth, inside the sepulchral room, the emperor's ashes were placed in a gold urn but the precious sepulchral room was sacked during Middle Ages.
    The Dacians' weapons are represented in the plinth. Along the whole column, with a spiral course about 200 meters long, bas-relief friezes tell scenes of war and Trajan’s life.On the top there was once a Trajan's statue which unfortunately got lost and was replaced by a St. Peter’s statue of the 16th century. A very small door is the entrance to the emperor grave and also to a spiral staircase which gets to the top.


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    Hills of Rome: The Capitoline Museum
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  • Written by Fam_Stoica on Nov 25, 2002
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  • Favorite Thing: The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome.
    The collections are closely linked to the city of Rome, and most of the exhibits come from the city itself.


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    Fountains & River: Fiume Tevere (The Tiber River)
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  • Updated by Fam_Stoica on Jul 8, 2004
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  • Favorite Thing: The Tiber, the 3rd longest river in Italy (406 km), rises in the Apennines and flows through Lazio region and the capital - Rome, then empty via a delta in the Tyrrhenian Sea.


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     I would love to visit the Colosseum
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     Musei Vaticani; not "muzei". ...And "marroni". Ciao!
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