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Some of the neighborhoods of south-eastern Rome:
- my apartment
- my highschool
- EUR (a nice acronym for "Esposizione Universale di Roma", that is Rome's World Fair)
- Laurentina
- Tintoretto
- Roma 70
- Fonte Meravigliosa
The river on the left is the Tiber.
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- Colosseo
- Termini Station (the central station; the surrounding densely populated and archaelogical area was heavily bombed by the US during World War II)
- Foro Romano
- Piazza Venezia
- Castel Sant'Angelo ("Castle of the Saint Angel"; built in 135-139 CE, it was the tomb of the emperor Hadrian, but it was turned into a fortress and then a castle; according to the legend, the Archangel Michael appeared on top of it brandishing its sword in 590 CE, hence the name and the statue on its roof)
- the Vatican
- Palazzo del Quirinale (where the President of the Republic lives)
- Palazzo di Grazia e Giustizia (the main courthouse, often just called The Palazzaccio, that is "Ugly Building")
- Palazzo di Montecitorio (the Italian congress)
- the Jewish quarter
- the Trastevere neighborhood (the name means "beyond the (river) Tiber" in Latin, because ancient Rome was built on the left side of the river and this part was instead on the far, that is right, side)
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(It is the same picture as before because I ran out of space for the text.)
- the Campidoglio (Rome's city hall)
- the Foro Boario (this is were Rome was born; the name means "cow market" in Latin - or, more precisely, "mall of the oxes" - because the village that became Rome was the main market in this area, next to the ford of the river provided by the island and where the first wooden bridges were built, some 2800 years ago)
- the Palatine Hill ("hill of the palaces", where the emperors and other wealthy families had villas)
- the Circus Maximus ("grand arena", a chariot racing track, that is the ancient equivalent of a NASCAR racing track)
- the F.A.O. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) headquarters
- the church of San Giovanni in Laterano (the cathedral church of the bishop of Rome, also known as The Pope, which is not St Peter's basilica in the foreign Vatican state; it is also the only other land owned by the Holy See beside the Vatican citadel and the summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, after the Holy See and Italy made peace in 1929 CE, after 59 years of war-like state during which the Popes declared themselves prisoners in the Vatican)
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- the Olympic Stadium
- Vatican City
- Termini Station
- the Trastevere neighborhood
- the center and most ancient part of Rome
- Villa Borghese (one of the Roman estates of the Borghese family, an ancient noble Roman dinasty originated in Siena in the 1200's CE; of course, after the Italian Republic was born in 1946 CE, there are no nobles anymore and the villa and gardens are now a public park and museum)
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| Northern Lazio |
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| Po River |
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| South of Bergamo, including the Iseo Lake |
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