Ardeatino
District of Rome
Latium - Italy

Church of Domine Quo Vadis

The Church of St Mary in Palmis (Italian: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Piante, Latin: Sanctae Maria in Palmis), better known as Chiesa del Domine Quo Vadis, is a small church southeast of Rome, central Italy. It is located about some 800 m from Porta San Sebastiano, where the Via Ardeatina branches off the Appian Way, on the site where, according to the legend, Saint Peter met Jesus while the former was fleeing persecution in Rome.

Located at 41.8665, 12.5037 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Roman Catholic churches in Rome, Relics associated with Jesus, Roman Catholic congregations established in the 17th century, Religious buildings completed in 1637

Baths of Caracalla

The Baths of Caracalla (Italian: Terme di Caracalla) in Rome, Italy, were the second largest Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. Chris Scarre provides a slightly longer construction period 211-217 AD. They would have had to install over 2,000 tons of material every day for six years in order to complete it in this time.

Located at 41.8794, 12.4931 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Ancient Roman baths in Rome, Olympic gymnastics venues, Ruins in Italy, Severan dynasty, 3rd-century architecture, 1960 Summer Olympic venues, Visitor attractions in Rome

Sack of Rome (1527)

The Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527 was a military event carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, then part of the Papal States. It marked a crucial imperial victory in the conflict between Charles and the League of Cognac (1526–1529) — the alliance of France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy. Pope Clement VII had given his support to the Kingdom of France in an attempt to alter the balance of power in the region, and free the Papacy from dependency, i.e.

Located at 41.8333, 12.5 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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1527 in Italy, Battles of the Italian Wars, Battles involving the Papal States, Battles involving the Holy Roman Empire, Battles involving Spain, Conflicts in 1527, Pontifical Swiss Guard

Ardeatine massacre

The Fosse Ardeatine massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine) was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome. Subsequently, the Ardeatine Caves site (Fosse Ardeatine) was declared a Memorial Cemetery and National Monument open daily to visitors.

Located at 41.8567, 12.5103 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Conflicts in 1944, Massacres in Italy, Nazi war crimes, 1944 in Italy, Mass murder in 1944, Italy in World War II, Italian Resistance

Roma Tre University

Roma Tre University (Italian: Università degli Studi Roma Tre) is an Italian public research university located in Rome, Italy, with its main campus situated in the Ostiense quarter. Founded in 1992 by the Ministry of Public Education, under the request of several professors of the Sapienza University of Rome, it was the third public university to be established in the metropolitan area of Rome.

Located at 41.8625, 12.4789 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Education in Rome, Universities in Italy, Universities and colleges in Rome, Educational institutions established in 1992

Aurelian Walls

The Aurelian Walls are a line of city walls built between 271 AD and 275 AD in Rome, Italy, during the reign of the Roman Emperors Aurelian and Probus. The walls enclosed all the seven hills of Rome plus the Campus Martius and, on the right bank of the Tiber, the Trastevere district. The river banks within the city limits appear to have been left unfortified, although they were fortified along the Campus Martius.

Located at 41.8733, 12.4989 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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3rd-century architecture, Topography of ancient Rome, Visitor attractions in Rome, Walls of Rome

San Sebastiano fuori le mura

San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Saint Sebastian outside the walls), or San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas (Saint Sebastian at the Catacombs), is a basilica in Rome, central Italy. Up to the Great Jubilee of 2000, San Sebastiano was one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, and many pilgrims still favor the traditional list.

Located at 41.8556, 12.5156 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Rome, Titular churches in Rome, 4th-century establishments, 17th-century architecture, 4th-century church buildings

Santi Nereo e Achilleo

Santi Nereo e Achilleo is a fourth-century basilica church in Rome, Italy, located in via delle Termi di Caracalla in the rione Celio facing the main entrance to the Baths of Caracalla. The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus Ss. Nerei et Achillei is Theodore Edgar McCarrick.

Located at 41.8802, 12.4948 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Rome, Titular churches in Rome, 4th-century church buildings

San Sisto Vecchio

San Sisto Vecchio is a church in Rome, devoted to St. Pope Sixtus II. It was built in the 4th century, and is recorded as the Titulus Crescentianae, thus relating the church to some Crescentia, possibly a Roman woman who founded the church. According to tradition, the church was established by Pope Anastasius I (399-401). The church houses the relics of St. Pope Sixtus II, transferred here from the Catacombs of St. Callixtus in the 6th century.

Located at 41.8804, 12.496 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Rome, Titular churches in Rome, 4th-century church buildings, Burial places of popes

Circus of Maxentius

The Circus of Maxentius (known until the 19th century as the Circus of Caracalla) is an ancient structure in Rome, Italy; it is part of a complex of buildings erected by emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia between AD 306 and 312. It is situated between the second and third miles of the Via Appia between the basilica and catacombs of San Sebastiano and the imposing late republican tomb of Caecilia Metella, which dominates the hill that rises immediately to the east of the complex.

Located at 41.8547, 12.5225 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Ancient chariot racing, Ancient Roman circuses in Rome, 4th-century architecture

San Giovanni in Oleo

San Giovanni in Oleo is a small church in Rome, Italy, devoted to Saint John the Evangelist, on the place where, according to tradition, his martyrdom was attempted. According to an ancient tradition, in 92, St. John survived martyrdom through immersion in a vat of boiling oil, attempted by Domitian himself.

Located at 41.8766, 12.5021 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Roman Catholic churches in Rome, 5th-century Roman Catholic church buildings, 16th-century architecture, Renaissance architecture in Rome

Porta San Sebastiano

Porta San Sebastiano is the modern name for the ancient Porta Appia, a gate in the Aurelian Wall of Rome, through which the Via Appia, now the Via di Porta San Sebastiano at that location, left the city in a southeasterly direction. It was refortified at the end of the 4th century and was again renovated in the sixth century by Belisarius and Narses. The gate, a brick structure with turrets, still stands and has been restored to good condition. Modern traffic flows under it.

Located at 41.8736, 12.5019 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Ancient gates in the Aurelian Walls

Arch of Drusus

The Arch of Drusus is an ancient arch in Rome, Italy, close to the First Mile of the Appian Way and next to the Porta San Sebastiano. The exact origins of the Arch are unclear. It is now generally agreed that it has nothing to do with Nero Claudius Drusus, the conqueror of the Germans. Some versions have the arch being constructed as part of a spur added to the Aqua Marcia by Caracalla in 211-216 AD to take water from that aqueduct to Caracalla’s new baths.

Located at 41.8736, 12.5011 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Ancient gates in the Aurelian Walls

San Giovanni a Porta Latina

San Giovanni a Porta Latina is a Basilica church in Rome, Italy, near the Porta Latina of the Aurelian Wall. It is currently the titular church of Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, former Archbishop of Kraków.

Located at 41.8772, 12.5019 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Titular churches in Rome, Basilica churches in Rome, 5th-century church buildings

San Cesareo in Palatio

San Cesareo in Palatio or San Caesareo de Appia is a titular church in Rome, near the beginning of the Appian Way. It is dedicated to Saint Caesarius of Africa, a 2nd century deacon and martyr.

Located at 41.8787, 12.4971 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Titular churches in Rome, Roman Catholic churches in Rome

Park of the Caffarella

The Caffarella Park (Italian: Parco della Caffarella) is a large park in Rome, Italy, protected from development. It is part of the Parco Regionale Appia Antica (Appian Way Regional Park). The park is contained in the Caffarella Valley and is bordered on its northern side by the Via Latina and on its southern by the Appian Way. It extends lengthways from the Aurelian Wall up to the Via dell'Almone.

Located at 41.8642, 12.5158 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Parks in Rome

Tomb of the Scipios

The Tomb of the Scipios (Latin sepulcrum Scipionum), also called the hypogaeum Scipionum, was the common tomb of the patrician Scipio family during the Roman Republic for interments between the early 3rd century BC and the early 1st century AD. Then it was abandoned and its location was lost within a few hundred years.

Located at 41.8758, 12.5003 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Ancient Roman tombs and cemeteries in Rome, Cornelii Scipiones, Latin inscriptions

Roma Ostiense railway station

Roma Ostiense is a railway station in Piazza dei Partigiani serving the Ostiense district of Rome, Italy, a short distance from the Porta San Paolo. It is run by the Centostazioni arm of the Ferrovie dello Stato group and the urban rail lines FR1, FR3, and FR5 run through the station. It is linked with the Piramide Metro B station and the Roma Porta San Paolo station on the Rome-Lido railway line.

Located at 41.8728, 12.4847 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Railway stations in Rome, Railway stations opened in 1940

Garbatella (Rome Metro)

Garbatella is a station on the Line B of the Rome Metro. It was opened in 1990 and is located behind the former Mercati Generali di Roma, on the via Ostiense in the Ostiense quarter. It replaces the old Garbatella station 200m away, whose entrance was on Piazza Giancarlo Vallauri (the present one is accessed from Via Giacinto Pullino).

Located at 41.8667, 12.4833 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Line B stations, Railway stations opened in 1990

Caecilia Metella (daughter of Metellus Creticus)

Caecilia Metella (b. c. 100 BC, fl. 69 BC) was a daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, who was a Consul in 69 BC. She married the Marcus Licinius Crassus who was the elder son of the famous Marcus Crassus and his wife Tertulla who and served under Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars.

Located at 41.8522, 12.5209 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Ancient Roman tombs and cemeteries in Rome, Ancient Roman women, Caecilii, 100s BC births, Year of death unknown

Catacomb of Callixtus

The Catacomb(s) of Callixtus (also known as the Cemetery of Callixtus) was one of the Catacombs of Rome on the Appian Way, most notable for containing the Crypt of the Popes, which contained the tombs of several popes from the 2nd to 4th centuries.

Located at 41.8589, 12.5108 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Catacombs of Rome, Papal tombs

Capo di Bove

Capo di Bove is an archeological site on the Appian Way on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. It contains the thermal baths of a vast property owned in the 2nd century AD by Herodes Atticus and his wife Annia Regilla. Formerly privately owned, the property at No. 222 on the Appian Way was acquired by the Italian Government in 2002. The area of the baths was at that time being used for grape growing.

Located at 41.8484, 12.524 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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2nd-century architecture, Roman villas in Italy, Ancient Roman architecture, Buildings and structures in Rome, Ancient Roman baths in Rome

Garbatella

Garbatella is a quarter belonging to the Municipio XI of the commune of Rome, in the Ostiense district. Its population counts nearly 45,000. It was founded in the late 1920s on an estate bearing the same name lying on a hill adjacent to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. The older section of the area is divided into project units, each of them made of several buildings grouped together around a common yards: this design was borrowed from the Garden city movement.

Located at 41.8605, 12.4882 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Districts of Rome

Church of Sant'Urbano alla Caffarella

The church of Sant'Urbano alla Caffarella is found on the edge of the Caffarella Park in the southeast of Rome. It was originally a Roman temple. In the 10th Century, the structure was modified and consecrated as a church and it was extensively altered in the 17th Century.

Located at 41.8578, 12.5243 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Churches in Rome

Sant'Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia

Sant'Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia (Saint Anthony of Padua at the Appian Ring-Road), a church in Rome, was made a cardinalate deaconry on 18 February 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI and assigned to Cardinal Julien Ries.

Located at 41.8752, 12.5129 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Titular churches in Rome