Church of Santi Luca e Martina and the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.
This image shows the church of Santi Luca e Martina and the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. This image was taken from the top of the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II. Santi Luca e Martina is a church situated between the Roman Forum and the Forum of Caesar and close to the Arch of Septimus Severus. The church was initially dedicated to Saint Martina, martyred in 228 AD during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. In 625 Pope Honorius I commissioned construction of the church. Restored first in 1256 during the reign of Pope Alexander IV, it was a simple rectangular structure surrounded on three sides by other constructions until it was rebuilt by the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona, in the seventeenth century. The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome. Built of concrete and stone, it was the largest amphitheatre of the Roman Empire, and is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering. It is the largest amphitheatre in the world.
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Location: Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Photo credit: © Stuart Robertson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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