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attractive resources of Rome, leading you from an epoch to another
one, many differents pieces of a great puzzle built long time ago
(2800 years) and actually leaving people without words, the Trevi
fountain and the Pantheon.</p>
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<p>If you throw a coin in Trevi fountain, you will come back to
Rome guaranteed, the legend says. How many people visits every day
the trevi Fountain is an answer a <a href=
"http://www.rome-tours.org">Rome limo</a> driver can give to his
groups doing a tour of Rome.</p>
<p>The name Trevi is the crossing of three roads (tre vie) marking
the terminal point of the Aqua Virgo (Italian: Acqua Vergine), one
of the ancient aqueducts bringing water to the Eternal City.</p>
<p align="center"></p>
<p>In 19 BC, the ancient scholars wrote that with the help of a
virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water only 14
miles (22 km) from the city. (This scene is presented on the
present fountain's travertine facade). This Aqua Virgo led the
water directly into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for
hundred years, and you can't believe it ,but it serves Rome water
supply still today.</p>
<p>After the visit to the Trevi fountain in the morning you can
spend the afternoon day tour in Rome visiting the ancient Rome
starting from the Pantheon.</p>
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<p>The original Pantheon was a rectangular temple built by Marcus
Vipsanius Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus, the first Roman emperor,
as part of a district renewal plan in 27-25 BC. What tourists see
as they relax in front in the Piazza della Rotonda is radically
different than that original temple. Hadrian rebuilt the structure
in the second century AD; maker's stamps in the bricks allow us to
date his restoration between 118 and 125 AD. Still, the inscription
on the architrave attributes the construction to Agrippa during his
third councilship.The Pantheon is a church of Rome today and
contains the tombs of Rafael and of several Italian Kings who
unified Italy in the nineteen century.</p>
<p align="center"></p>
<p>The harmonious shape of the Pantheon from the floor to the top
of the dome is exactly equal to its diameter. Adytons and coffers
reduce the weight of the dome and it becomes thinner approaching
the oculus, the hole in the top of the dome used as a source for
the inside.</p>
<p>It rains inside the pantheon, but the pavement drains the
water.</p>
<p align="center"></p>
<p>Those columns were brought from Egypt and transported on the
Nile to Alexandria, and finally to the port of Ostia across the
Mediterranean sea.</p>
<p>Your full day <a href="http://www.rome-tours.org">Rome shore
excursion</a> will end at the port of Civitavecchia or to the
airports of Rome.</p>
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