The Vittoriano, also known as the Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or the Altar of the Fatherland, is a national monument located in the heart of Rome, in Piazza Venezia. Dedicated to the first king ...

The architecture of the arches evolved as the imperial era went on. The few arches that remain from the reign of Augustus, the first emperor (27 B.C.– A.D. 14), have an austere design and appear ...

ROME — Cinema Troisi is an art movie house in central Rome. Its stark, white, minimalist façade contrasts with the ornate 19th-century buildings nearby. It was built in the 1930s as the ...

Repurposing pieces of architecture or architectural sculptures, often called spolia, or spoils, in new buildings was extremely common in ancient Rome. “There were monuments all over the city ...

A century after the March on Rome that brought Benito Mussolini to power, a symbol of fascism still stands in the northern Italian city of Bolzano. But rather than tear down the Monument to ...

The Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, a Catholic cathedral located in Rome, is ranked as the fifth best-rated monument in the city. It has achieved a score of 73.32 out of 100 in the index.