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Horti Lamiani: a secret garden underground Rome

Horti Lamiani: a secret garden underground Rome

by Federica | Dec 1, 2021 | Hidden gems of Rome

A newly opened museum underground Rome Some of the rooms of the Horti Lamiani in Rome Rome has a history that lasts thousands of years. Across this Eternal time, layers of history have accumulated, gifting us today with unexpected surprises. Especially when you walk...

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🔸Have you ever walked inside an Ancient Roman b 🔸Have you ever walked inside an Ancient Roman bath? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸 You can do so, visiting Diocletian thermal baths! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸These baths were the BIGGEST thermal baths ever built in Rome! 😮 And look at the height of the ceiling! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸They were built at the beginning of the 4th century AD, by the emperor Diocletian ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸To give you an idea of the size, these baths were 13 hectares wide and they could host up to 3000 people at the same time! 🤯 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸And how long did it take to build all of this? Only 8 years! 😮 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸The imperial thermal baths of Rome had a precise pattern for the visitors. They were a sequence of rooms at different temperatures, something like our modern SPAs and thermal baths 🧖🏼‍♀️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸What you see in the picture is one of the monumental entrance halls of the Diocletian baths. Today you see raw walls, but you must imagine all of it was covered with colorful and shiny marbles 🤩 So precious and lush! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸Have you ever been to the Diocletian baths? Did you know they are part of the @museonazionaleromano? This means that with one ticket you can visit not one.. but 4 incredible places! 🤩 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #travelrome #rometours #rometrip #wheninrome #ancientworld
🔸Let’s explore the Basilica of Saint Clement, 🔸Let’s explore the Basilica of Saint Clement, only a few steps away from the Colosseum! 🔸We will explore it while no one else is there, outside of visitors’ times! So it will be only you, us and the basilica 🤩 🔸This basilica is dedicated to Saint Clement, the third pope after Saint Peter! 🔸During your visit you’ll end up exploring three levels 🔸Each of them is very different and belongs to a different era from the other. It’s like a proper lasagna of history! 😜 🔸Please note that it is normally not allowed to make videos in this site. However the basilica has been so kind to allow Live Virtual Guide inside this archaeological site during closing times! 🤩 🔸What your thoughts about this incredible place? Drop a comment below! 😉👇🏼 #amazingrome #rometravel #urbanarchaeology #historicalcity #archaeologylovers
🔸This place has a lot to do with the election o 🔸This place has a lot to do with the election of Rome as capital of Italy in 1870 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸Why? 🤔 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸You must imagine Rome back then was pretty much laid out like a village ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸You would have seen huge Ancient Roman walls (the Aurelian walls) encircling the huge area of the enormous city Rome used to be ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸But once you’d walked through the city gates.. you would have found countryside! 😮 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸And only after a while you would have found small gatherings of houses and villas throughout this countryside and the center of the city ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸When Rome became capital of Italy in 1870, its shape was not adequate for a capital city! 🤦🏻‍♀️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸Therefore massive construction works were initiated, to build the governmental buildings of the country, and new residencies for all those workers that migrated into this new capital in full development ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸Some buildings were destroyed, modified, moved. New squares were built. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸And with the excavations, lots of ancient ruins saw the light again. After 2000 years 🧡 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸This is when all of those wonders that you can find in Palazzo Massimo came back to life! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸And what if Rome never became capital of Italy? Would all of these ancient treasures still be unknown? 🤔 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🔸What’s one of the most colorful places in Ro 🔸What’s one of the most colorful places in Rome? Casa Balla! 🌈🎨 🔸 Casa Balla is the house museum of a great futuristic artist, Giacomo Balla 🔸He lived in this apartment from 1929 until his death in 1958 🔸Balla lived in this house together with his wife Elisa and his two daughters, Luce and Elica 🔸 He basically turned his house into a great piece of art itself. From the walls to the ceilings, the floors, the chandeliers, the chairs, the furniture.. 🔸 Every inch of this apartment puts a smile on your face and fills you in with positivity 🌈😊 🔸 Balla was a sculptor and painter, his wife Elisa stitched. They both transmitted their passions to their daughters, and the result of that can be seen in all the beautiful works in this apartment 🔸Imagine the levels of creativity that were reached inside this house! 🤩 🔸The cool thing about this visit is that you basically enter an ordinary apartment building in the Prati district (north of Rome) where other people live today. You walk up the stairs to the 4th floor and you enter the door that says “Futur Balla” 🔸I loved this. It was like entering into the everyday life and behind the scene of an artist. Have you ever wondered how an artist lived? Here you can see how 😊 🔸 Casa Balla will be opened to visitors throughout 2022, until December 31st. So be sure you make a visit before then! 😉
🔸One of the stars of Galleria Colonna: the Bean 🔸One of the stars of Galleria Colonna: the Bean Eater of Annibale Carracci! 🍲 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸When you visit Galleria Colonna in Rome, you feel overwhelmed by the enormous quantity of paintings on the walls 🖼 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸Still, try to focus on some of them while walking through the incredible rooms of this palace ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸If you do this, you will notice with no effort that one of them really sticks out from the whole collection 🔎 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸The Bean Eater of Annibale Carracci is particularly popular in the Colonna Palace in Rome and it’s a painting that probably you would never expect to find in here 😊 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸This painting looks so simple, but it actually tells us a lot of info about a farmer’s everyday life in the 1500s 🧑🏽‍🌾 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸The farmer is eating a beans soup. And you can see what you would find on his table: onions, bread, wine 🧅🥖🍷
 🔸Why is this such a popular painting? Because it sticks out from the rest. Not just in here, but it also sticks out from all the paintings in the 1500s.. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸A time where only noble people could afford to have a portrait like this ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸Have you spotted the Bean Eater when visiting Galleria Colonna? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔸Have you not been to Galleria Colonna yet? Then what are you waiting for? 😜
🔸Don't you just love visiting noble residential 🔸Don't you just love visiting noble residential palaces? I do! 😁 🔸Most of us would probably never decorate their houses like this. But how nice is it to day dream a little, and wonder around these incredible rooms? 🤩 🔸The place where I am walking here is the wonderful Palazzo Altemps. A real hidden gem near Piazza Navona💎 🔸Palazzo Altemps used to be a residential palace, where the cardinal Altemps kept his collection of Ancient Roman marbles 🔸A collection that takes your breathe away..🧡 🔸Today this palace holds many collections of ancient marbles, that belonged to different noble families of Rome 🔸Here is a little preview. And in the meantime I'll prepare a video tour to show you why you should absolutely come and visit this place 😊 🔸And you? Have you ever been to Palazzo Altemps? #amazingrome #iloverome #romaitaly #hiddengem #secretplaces
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