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The Villa d'Este is a villa situated at Tivoli, near Rome, Italy. The villa and its wondrous gardens were built from 1570 AD by Cardinal Ippolito d'Este. Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, it is a fine example of Renaissance architecture and the Italian Renaissance garden. The masterpiece Italian-style garden, the innovative and tasteful landscaping, the bewildering 500 fountains, water jets and water plays, the troughs and pools, the cascades, the grottoes, the views, made it a world-acclaimed sight, and an early much-copied model for the development of European gardens.
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The Amalfi Coast (Italian: Costiera Amalfitana) is a stretch of coastline on the southern coast of the Sorrentine Peninsula in the Province of Salerno in Southern Italy. The Amalfi Coast is a popular tourist destination for the region and Italy as a whole, attracting thousands of tourists annually.
In 1997, the Amalfi Coast was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a cultural landscape.
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Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in the year AD 79. The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.
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The Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana in Italian) is a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli, Italy
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Sperlonga, a coastal town in the province of Latina in Italy, was an ancient Roman resort: Emperor Tiberius built here a famous villa, including one of the grottoes (Latin: speluncae) which gave the name to the town.
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Photo gallery of Greek temples in Italy, located in Sicily (Agrigento, Selinunte and Segesta) and Campania (Paestum).
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Capri is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The town of Capri is the island's main population center. The island has two harbours, Marina Piccola and Marina Grande (the main port of the island). The separate comune of Anacapri is located high on the hills to the west.
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Stabiae was an ancient Roman town, located close to the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia approximately 4.5km southwest of Pompeii. It was positioned on a 50m high headland overlooking the Gulf of Naples. Being only 16km from Mount Vesuvius, this seaside resort was largely destroyed by two meters of tephra ash in 79 AD.
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The Villa Poppaea is a Roman villa situated in the Roman town of Oplontis (the modern Torre Annunziata), between Naples and Sorrento in southern Italy. It was owned by the Emperor Nero, and used by his second wife Poppaea Sabina as her main residence when not in Rome.
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The museum contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompeii, Stabia and Herculaneum. The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek and Roman times. It is the most important Italian archaeological museum.
This album includes also exhibits from the Secret Cabinet of the museum, containing erotic Roman art.
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Naples (Italian: Napoli) is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. It is the capital of the region of Campania. Naples is known internationally for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music, and gastronomy, and has played an important political and cultural role both within and beyond the Italian peninsula throughout its 2800-year existence.