Italy - Rome, The Imperial Fora and Colosseum

Roma, Fori Imperiali e Colosseo
Rome, The Imperial Fora and Colosseum
2016

Italy - Rome, Spaghetti in the Colosseum

Delicious Rome!
Colosseo
Colosseum
Colisee
Kolosseum
Coliseo
2009

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Whoever came up with this idea is very clever  :)

Italy - Rome, the Colosseum

Roma
Colosseo

Rome
Colosseum
2009

Italy - Rome, Trevi Fountain at Dusk

Rome
Fontana di Trevi
Trevi Fountain
Fontaine de Trevi
Trevi-Brunnen

The sender writes:
We just arrived at the fountain - took a few photos, then realized there was a crazy man inside the fountain who cut his stomach in two places.  He's in our pictures!  The police came and moved everyone away.  We had to leave so I don't know what happened to him.
2009

Italy - Rome with Bubbles

Magic Roma
(Magic Rome)

Piazza Navona
Navona Square
Place Navona
Navona-Platz
2009

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What a cute idea to have the pictures in the bubbles blown from the fountain.

Italy - Rome Calendar 2009

Rome, Italy
2009 Calendar

Italy - Rome, St. Maria Maggiore Basilica

Rome Italy

Santa Maria Maggiore
St. Maria Maggiore Basilica
2009

Italy - Roma Multiview

Roma - Rome
2009

Italy - Rome, U.S. Olympic Team in Italy, 1960

U.S. Olympic Team
Rome, Italy
August 25, 1960

On behalf of the entire United States Olympic Team, we send you greetings and best wishes on the occasion of the opening day of the Games of the XVII Olympiad at Rome, Italy.

The back has the printed autographs of 30 of the team members!

Italy - Rome - Multiview with Cutout Feet

Roma

sto camminando nella storia

I'm walking in the history

je suis en train de marcher dans L'hisoria
ich Laufen in die Geschichte
2009

The feet are holes cut out of the postcard.

Italy - Rome - Then and Now

Roma
Il Colosseo e il Forro Romano, ieri e oggo:
ricostruzioni della citta imperiale.

(Rome Colosseum and Roman Forum, yesterday and today:
Reconstruction of Imperial City.)
2009

Italy - Rome, The Roman Forum

Foro Romano
1. Tempio di Saturno
2. Via Sacra
3. Basilica Giulia
4. I Rostri
5. Arco di Settimio Severo
6. La Curia
7. Basilica Emilia
8. Basilica di Massenzio
9. Tempio di Antonino e Feustina
10. Colosseo
11. Palatio
12. Colonna di Foca
13. Tempio di Giulio Cesare
14. Arco di Tito
15. Tempio di Vesta
16. Casa dei Vestalli
17. Tempio di Castore e Polluce

Some Translations:

Roman Forum
1. Temple of Saturn
2. Via Sacra
3. Basilica Julia
4. The Rostra
5. Arch of Septimius Severus
6. The Curia
7. Basilica Aemilia
8. Basilica of Maxentius
9. Temple of Antoninus and Feustina
10. Coliseum
11. Palatio
12. Column of Phocas
13. Temple of Julius Caesar
14. Arch of Titus
15. Temple of Vesta
16. House of Vestalli
17. Castor and Pollux Temple
2009
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Roma
Il Foro Romano, ieri e oggi

(Rome
The Roman Forum, yesterday and today)
2010

Italy - Rome, Colosseum by G. Gasponi

Immagine de Giancarlo Gasponi
Roma - Colosseo

(Picture Giancarlo Gasponi
Rome - Colosseum)
2009

Italy - Fountain of Trevi or Trevi Fountain

Roma
Fontana di Trevi

Rome
Trevi Fountain
2009

Italy - Rome, Villa Borghese - Little Lake

Roma  (Rome)
Villa Borghese - Little lake
1955

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Villa Borghese is a large landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums and attractions. It is the second largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 148 acres) after that of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana and built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, who used it as a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century.

Italy - Rome, Bridge of Victor Emanuel II

Roma (Rome)
Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II
The Bridge of Victor Emanuel II
1955

the sender writes:
We are now on the plane flying from Rome to Cairo, Egypt.  Wish you were here with me.  Rome is full of images.  Saw prison Paul was kept where he wrote some of his epistles.  Also place of burial.  Visited Vatican - St. Peters -- saw and heard Pope give blessing.  Saw sacred step they claim was brought to Rome from Jerusalem that Jesus waled on for trial before Pilot.  Steps were filled with people on knees climbing up to top and kissing each step.

Write to me, love dear,
....

Europe Map in 3-D, Day View and Night View

Europe by Day and Night
Data: NASA Earth Observatory
in 3D

This is the day picture, the night picture is all dark with all the city lights turned on so you can still see the outline of the land and where the cities are.
2011

Shown are major cites for Spain, England, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia.

Titanic - Surpassing the Greatest Buildings, Olympic and Titanic

Surpassing the Greatest Buildings and Memorials of Earth
The White Star Line's New Triple-screw Steamers

"Olympic" "Titanic"
Largest and Finest in the World
(See Over)

the back reads:

Interesting Comparisons
read from left to right

1. Bunker Hill Monument, Boston - - 221 Feet High
2. Public Buildings, Philadelphia  - - 534 Feet High
3.  Washington Monument, Washington - - 555 Feet High
4. Metropolitan Tower, New York - - 700 Feet High
5. New Woolworth Bldg, New York - - 750 Feet High
6. White Star Line's Triple Screw Steamers Olympic and Titanic - - 882 1/2 Feet Long
7. Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany - - 516 Feet High
8. Grand Pyramid, Gizeh, Africa - - 451 Feet High
9. St. Peter's Church, Rome, Italy - - 448 Feet High

This postcard is a pre-sinking Advertising Titanic / Olympic postcard

Italy - Rome, Colosseo (Colosseum)

Roma - Anfiteatro Flavio (Colosseo)
(Rome - Flavian Amphitheater (Coliseum))
2011

Italy - Rome, Anfiteatro Flavio (Flavian Amphitheatre)

Roma - Anfiteatro Flavio (Flavian Amphitheatre)

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The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Amphitheatrum Flavium, is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire, built of concrete and stone.  It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.