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                <title>Modern-day Subura</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Traditionally a dirty, noisy and over-populated area of Rome just north of the forum between the Viminale and Esquilino hills. Rather than stray dogs, vagrants and ladies of the night, these days you are more likely to find locals sharing a slice of everyday Rome. Even though it’s a stone’s throw from the forum, these few streets feel like a village with a history all of their own. If it's genuine Rome you're after, this is the place to see it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Church of S Luigi dei Francesi and The Cornaro Chapel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This splendid church has three of the most amazing Caravaggios, including the Calling of St Matthew and it is free.<br><br>The second find is the The Ecstasy of St Teresa di Avila by Bernini. It is carved of one solid piece of marble is is simply quite stunning and stirring.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Trevi Fountain</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The legend is that if throw a coin over your shoulder into the Trevi fountain, you will return to Rome! It worked for me! Eat an ice cream whilst sitting there. Famous for most celebrated sequence, Ekberg splashing in the fountain, in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Villa Giulia</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Etruscan museum. If you're tired of Roman ruins covered in scenes of warriors and gods, meet the older and more laid-back inhabitants of Central Italy. Particularly good for couples, it's often quiet and is a lovely building to boot.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Colosseum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Rarely fails to fire young imaginations.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Sistine Chapel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Well, it has to be the Sistine Chapel. But can you survive the queue?]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Keats-Shelley Memorial House</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[As you face the Spanish Steps, the house is at the bottom on the right. Keats spent his last days here, suffering from consumption, and you can see relics of him and Shelley in this memorial to the Romantic poets. When I visited, there was a shop next door named Byron, but I think this was purely coincidental.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Sistine Chapel with frescoes by Michelangelo</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[You always have to queue so get there one hour early and walk through all the rooms directly to the Sistine Chapel, ignore the rest or do another time; then you arrive ahead of the crowds able to glory in it without the noise and hub-bub. Many people take mirrors to look down into to save their necks.]]></description>
                
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