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  2. Insula (building) - Wikipedia

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    Insula (building) Insula. (building) Remains of the top floors of an insula near the Capitolium and the Insula dell'Ara Coeli in Rome. In Roman architecture, an insula ( Latin for "island", pl.: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block. [1] [2] [3] This article deals with the former definition, that ...

  3. Sapienza University of Rome - Wikipedia

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    www .uniroma1 .it /en. The Sapienza University of Rome ( Italian: Sapienza – Università di Roma ), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma " La Sapienza ", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ("wisdom"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. [7] It was founded in 1303 and is as such one of the world's oldest universities ...

  4. Museo Nazionale Romano - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official Website. The National Roman Museum (Italian: Museo Nazionale Romano) is a museum, with several branches in separate buildings throughout the city of Rome, Italy. It shows exhibits from the pre- and early history of Rome, with a focus on archaeological findings from the period of Ancient Rome .

  5. Società Generale Immobiliare - Wikipedia

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    Società Generale Immobiliare ( SGI; English: The General Company of Real Estate) was once the largest real estate and construction company in Italy. It was founded in Turin in 1862, then relocated to Rome in 1870 with the unification of Italy. The company bought some of the pastoral land around Rome and, with the growth of Rome, the company ...

  6. Rome - Wikipedia

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    1980 (4th Session) Area. 1,431 ha (3,540 acres) Rome ( Italian and Latin: Roma, Italian: [ˈroːma] ⓘ) is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, and a special comune (municipality) named Comune di Roma Capitale.

  7. Mosque of Rome - Wikipedia

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    43 m. The Mosque of Rome ( Italian: Moschea di Roma ), situated in Parioli, Rome, Italy, is the largest mosque in the Western world in terms of land area. [1] It has an area of 30,000 m 2 (320,000 sq ft) and can accommodate more than 12,000 people. The building is located in the Acqua Acetosa area, at the foot of the Parioli Mounts, north of ...

  8. Metropolitan City of Rome Capital - Wikipedia

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    cittametropolitanaroma.gov.it. Metropolitan City of Rome Capital ( Italian: città metropolitana di Roma Capitale) is an area of local government at the level of metropolitan city in the Lazio region of Italy. It comprises the territory of the city of Rome and 120 other comuni ( sg.: comune) in the hinterland of the city.

  9. Museo di Roma - Wikipedia

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    The Museo di Roma is a museum in Rome, Italy, part of the network of Roman civic museums. The museum was founded in the Fascist era with the aim of documenting the local history and traditions of the "old Rome" that was rapidly disappearing, but following many donations and acquisitions of works of art is now principally an art museum .