Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

Over 2,200 years ago, the Republic of Rome founded a colony called Liternum on Italy’s west coast, just north of present-day ...

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th ...

In the amphitheater above ... In the late 16th century, Pope Sixtus V, the builder of Renaissance Rome, tried to transform the Colosseum into a wool factory, with workshops on the arena floor ...

Keep in mind that most Colosseum tours only give you access to the arena floor and upper level. If you want to visit the ...

In Monteleone Sabino – a small village of barely 1,000 inhabitants a stone’s throw from Rome – a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre is nestled away behind bushes and woodland and has ...

In Monteleone Sabino – a small village of barely 1,000 inhabitants a stone’s throw from Rome – a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre is nestled away behind bushes and woodland and has turned into ...