Their questionable reputations and turbulent leadership brought about the downfall of Rome ... Jupiter Capitolinus), the most important temple in ancient Rome, to be laid on the Capitoline Hill.

Gibbon took as his starting point Rome at the height of its glory, in the second century A.D., when the Capitoline Hill was a symbol of the city’s eternal power and the Temple of Jupiter a ...

We go around it, but in the end, we never actually climb the Capitoline Hill. On Rome's birthday ... From the Tarpeian Rock to the Temple of Jupiter. Starting from the square, where the statue ...

Located at the top of the Capitoline Hill, a symbolic site in Rome, the Musei Capitolini ... It also features the superb ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, along with the original of the equestrian ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla found an appropriately symbolic place in Rome to pose for photographs on the second day of their state visit to Italy. They stood in the ancient Temple of Venus ...

This January 2025 photo shows a replica of an equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, on Rome's Capitoline Hill ... of ancient Rome with a temple to Jupiter. Down below in Piazza ...

The Etruscan civilization flourished in Central Italy between the 8th and 3rd century ... with an early example being the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Its position ...

Symbol of eternity and originally a Temple to Jupiter, The Capitolium or Capitoline is on one of the Seven Hills of Rome, Italy. Illustration published 1882. Original ...

The heart of his cult was a mighty temple inaugurated in 509 BC on the Capitoline, one of the Seven Hills of Rome. It was dedicated not only to Jupiter but his queen ... Her own temple was built on ...

The focal point of the piazza is the Pantheon, the nearly 2,000- year-old temple to all the Roman gods ... A tour bus passing by the foot of the Capitoline Hill, which overlooks the Forum and ...