Category: Travel Writing
In the Appendix to the eighth chapter will be found a list of the chief monumental antiquities in the museums, galleries, and other public places. This has been thought to be useful, as these are often difficult to recognise from being mixed with so many other attractive and i...
Of the great roads along which the principal traffic from ancient Rome passed, the Appian Road may perhaps be said to have been the most important, as it led to the southern and...
12. CHAPTER VIII.Before the end of the regal period there was an enlargement of the limits of the city in which the Aventine and Cælian were comprehended. Dionysius, Livy, and Aurelius Victor al...
10. CHAPTER VI.Near the Piazza Venezia and S. Marco, to the east of the site of the ancient Circus Flaminius, stood the Septa, an ancient building erected for the purpose of holding the Roman...
7. CHAPTER III.On the road from the Forum Romanum to the Coliseum, after passing through the Arch of Titus, we descend between the platform and ruins of the Temple of Venus and Rome, and the r...
5. CHAPTER I.The entrance to the ruins on the Palatine Hill is now made through a gateway opposite to the Basilica of Constantine. This gateway was erected by the architect Vignola in the si...
9. CHAPTER V.The church of S. Giorgio in Velabro, which stands between the Palatine Hill and the river near the Piazza Bocca della Verità, retains the ancient name of this district, formerly...
8. CHAPTER IV.The whole space between the Quirinal and the Capitoline Hills was occupied by the immense Forum and public buildings which Trajan constructed. The Column of Trajan, with its won...
6. CHAPTER II.At a short distance from the entrance to the Palatine we can enter the Forum near the ruins of an ancient temple, three columns of which are still standing. These three columns...
4. CHAPTER IX.A. THE VIA APPIA AND THE ALBAN HILLS 194 B. THE VIA LATINA AND TUSCULUM 210 C. GABII AND PRÆNESTE 219 D. OSTIA AND PORTO 229 E. TIBUR 235 F. NORTH-WESTERN CAMPAGNA 256
11. CHAPTER VII.The broad flat space to the N.E. of the Quirinal Hill, was occupied by the Thermæ of Diocletian, now converted into the great Church of S. Maria degli Angeli. This enormous grou...
1. Chapter IX. the nature of the soil and configuration of the hills andIn the Appendix to the eighth chapter will be found a list of the chief monumental antiquities in the museums, galleries, and other public places. This has been thought to be us...
3. CHAPTER VIII.2. CHAPTER VI.