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This wide basin at the end of the Paola aqueduct is a favourite backdrop for wedding photos (see Romantic Spots).
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Housed in a beautifully restored ex-convent, this museum includes life-size dioramas of Ancient Roman rooms and shops.
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Palazzo Corsini’s beautiful gardens are now the University of Rome’s botanical museum.
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Small painting collection, featuring works by Fra’ Angelico, Van Dyck, Titian, Rubens and Caravaggio.
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Rome’s first stone bridge, (181-142 BC) was ruined in 1598. It retained three arches until 1886, when two were destroyed to make room for Ponte Palatino (Rotto means broken in Italian).
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The 1626 façade copies the medieval one. Inside are 22 ancient columns and excavations of the 5th-century basilica.
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Bramante designed the mini-temple in the courtyard to mark the spot where St Peter was supposedly crucified.
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A charming Renaissance church, whose claim to fame is a Virgin and Child by Cavalier d’Arpino (Caravaggio’s teacher).
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It is said that the serpent of medical god Aesculapius jumped ship and swam ashore here in 293 BC. Rome’s maternity hospital is still here.
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Rome’s largest public park was established in 1644-52 by Camillo Pamphilj. A great place for picnics.
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