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• Villa Jovis
  ...reconstructions have shown the villa to be a remarkable testament to Roman architecture in the [[1st century]]. As water was difficult to come by where the villa was built, Roman engineers constructed an intricate system for the collection of rainwater f
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• Aosta
  ...became the capital of the ''Alpes Graies'' ("Grey Alps") province of the [[Roman Empire|Empire]]. After the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire|Western Empire]], the city was conquered by the [[Burgundians]], the
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• Lazio
  ...mological Dictionary]. Since Latium is respected more as a designation for ancient Rome, it is not used as a label on maps or globes. ...th many local cultures, each city-state having its own, somewhat akin to [[Ancient Greece|Greece]]. Indeed, trade with Greeks and [[Phoenicia]]ns strongly inf
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• Culture
  ...untry, the laws and philosophy of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Church]], the [[architecture]], and on the terraces of the many [[football (soccer)|football]] clubs. It ...majority religion of the [[Roman Empire]] and Italy. The [[Pope]] of the Roman Catholic Faith resides within Rome in what is now known as [[Vatican City]]
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• San Marco di Venezia
  ...and has been the seat of the [[Patriarch of Venice]], archbishop of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice]] since [[1807]]. ...overed with higher [[wood]]en domes in order to blend in with the [[Gothic architecture]] of the redesigned Doge's Palace.
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• Culture of Italy
  ...untry, the laws and philosophy of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Church]], the [[architecture]], and on the terraces of the many [[football (soccer)|football]] clubs. It ...majority religion of the [[Roman Empire]] and Italy. The [[Pope]] of the Roman Catholic Faith resides within Rome in what is now known as [[Vatican City]]
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• Art of Italy
  ...times to the present. In [[Ancient Rome]], Italy was a centre for art and architecture. There were many Italian artists during the [[Gothic]] and [[Medieval]] per ==The Roman Period==
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• Architecture
  '''Architecture''' (from [[Latin language|Latin]], ''architectura'' and ultimately from [[G ...rom the macrolevel of [[town planning]], [[urban design]], and [[landscape architecture]] to the microlevel of creating [[furniture]]. Architectural design usually
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• Tuscany
  ...place of the [[Italian Renaissance]], and its artistic heritage includes [[architecture]], [[painting]] and [[sculpture]], collected in dozens of [[museum]]s, the ...late [[Bronze age|Bronze]] and [[Iron age]]s parallels that of the early [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]]. The Tuscan area was inhabited by peoples of the so-called
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• Apulia
  In ancient times only the northern part of the region was called Apulia; the southern ...the region was settled from the 1st millennium BC by several Illyric and [[Ancient Italic peoples|Italic]] peoples. Later, the [[Greeks]] expanded until reach
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• Procida
  ===Ancient history=== During [[Roman Empire|Roman rule]], Procida became a renowned resort for the [[patrician]] class of Rom
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• Palermo
  ...the provincial administration in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. When the [[Roman Empire]] was split, Sicily and Palermo came under the rule of the Eastern [ ...to war with each other, and Euphimius, the winner, dreamt of reuniting the Roman empire. However, he lacked an army, so he asked the [[Saracen]]s ([[Muslim]
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• Capri
  ...[Blue Grotto]] ('Grotta Azzurra'). Above all are the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas. ===Ancient and Roman times===
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• Palladian architecture
  ...Palladian architecture as it later evolved, one must first understand the architecture of Palladio himself. == Palladio's architecture==
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• Verona
  ...iscopal see]] and [[province]] in the [[Veneto]], Northern [[Italy]]. The ancient town, and the centre of the modern city, are in a loop of the [[Adige River ...e [[Via Claudia Augusta]], [[Via Gallica]] and [[Via Postumia]]. The great Roman poet Q. Valerius [[Catullus]] was a native of Verona.
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• Siena
  ...ligion)|Cult]] of the Virgin which is omnipresent in the fabric of Siena's ancient stones has an origin which is older still. What we can say for certain is that the [[Roman Empire|Romans]] founded a town called Saenna Julia on the site of a pre-exi
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• Brescia
  ...rtant regional centre since pre-Roman times and a number of [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] and [[medieval]] monuments are preserved, among which is the prominent ca ...though the area enclosed by the medieval walls is larger than that of the Roman town, which occupied the eastern portion of the present one. The Piazza del
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• History
  ...the [[Etruscan civilization]] and especially the [[Roman Republic]] and [[Roman Empire|Empire]] that dominated this part of the world for many centuries ca ...alley, for example, was appended in 42 BC. After the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire]] and the [[Lombards|Lombard]] invasions, "Italy" or "Italian" gradu
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• Ancient Rome
  ...pg|thumb|right|400px|The [[Roman Forum]] was the central area around which ancient Rome developed.]] ...o barbarian invasions in the [[5th century]], marking the [[decline of the Roman Empire]] and the beginning of the [[Middle Ages]].
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• Modena
  An ancient town, it is the seat of an [[archbishop]], but is now best known as "the ca === Ancient times ===
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