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The 9 Most Iconic Landmarks in Rome

9 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Colosseum
~4 min

Colosseum

1 Piazza del Colosseo, I Municipio, Rome, 00184, Italy

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Here is a number that should stop you in your tracks: fifty thousand.

Mouth of Truth
~1 min

Mouth of Truth

I Municipio, Rome, Italy

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The Bocca della Verita is a massive marble disc, about one point eight metres in diameter, depicting a river god or possibly Oceanus, with an open mouth that legend says will bite the hand off anyone who tells a lie while their fingers are inside.

Pantheon
~3 min

Pantheon

I Municipio, Rome, Italy

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The dome above your head is still, after nearly nineteen hundred years, the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built.

Roman Forum
~4 min

Roman Forum

5 Largo della Salara Vecchia, I Municipio, Rome, 00186, Italy

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For about five hundred years, this was the centre of the Western world.

Sistine Chapel
~4 min

Sistine Chapel

Viale Vaticano, XVII Municipio, Rome, 00192, Italy

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Michelangelo did not want this job.

Spanish Steps
~2 min

Spanish Steps

I Municipio, Rome, Italy

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The name is a lie, or at least a misdirection.

St. Peter's Basilica
~4 min

St. Peter's Basilica

120 Via Pietro Romani, XIII Municipio, Rome, 00124, Italy

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This is the largest church in the world, and the Vatican will not let you forget it.

Trevi Fountain
~2 min

Trevi Fountain

Piazza di Trevi, I Municipio, Rome, 00187, Italy

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About three thousand euros in coins are thrown into this fountain every single day.

Vatican Museums
~4 min

Vatican Museums

Viale Vaticano, XVIII Municipio, Rome, 00165, Italy

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The Vatican Museums contain roughly seventy thousand works of art, of which about twenty thousand are on display at any given time.

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