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🚽🧻As we all know, Roman cities was provided with public toilets, called Latrinae.
This service was useful to avoid disease, contamination of drinking water and to keep the cities clean.
👉They were free to use and... shared! No privacy there: people was used to seat next each other, and probably talking about their business! 😁
📍This is the latrines you can see in Ostia Antica, an incredible archaelogical site 20 minutes driving away from Rome.
🧐Have you already been there?

🚾🚻Despite we are used to consider the toilet like something essential and obvious to use, across the world it isn't so. That's why we can consider the Roman toilet system so advanced and smart.

➡️Today (november 18th) is the United Nations WORLD TOILET DAY, because toilet and sanitation facilities are an essencial right, and 1 in 4 people globally still don't have access to safe sanitation.
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Toilet for all.

👉Piazza di Pietra is caracterized by the presence of the column belonging to the temple of the emperor Hadrian 👑.
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They are still standing because a modern building was installed on it!
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💭Is there any city like Rome?

I could spend hours inside the Saint Peter's basilica 🇻🇦, among shiny marbles, sparkling mosaics, statues and history. 👣⛪️📸
I'm sure you would do the same! 😜

Can you figure why are Spanish Steps called "spanish"?
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At the bottom of the steps there is the Spanish embassy 🇪🇸 to the Vatican 🇻🇦!

Walking is the best way to explore Rome.
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It is even the only way enjoy the city at best, because on your way you can stop for a tasty gelato 🍧or a good coffee ☕️.
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Only in Rome.❤️

The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest in Europe, and the Ghetto is the Jewish district in Rome. 💐
This is the heart of the Jewish community since 1500.

Toss a coin in the Trevi fountain: a must do in Rome!
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Do it to be sure to come back to Rome!
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How beautiful is the Colosseum in a sunny day? 😎
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The land artist Christo made two works in Rome, and few other projects never realized. I would commemorate this artist died yesterday with his "Wrapped Statue", the artists first wrapping monument. This artwork was made without permission in 1963 in the garden of Villa Borghese, by wrapping a statue of venus with some plastic foil. It lasted for six months, and the police did not interfere, thinking that the vi*****rs were doing conservation work.
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@ Villa Borghese

The next few months could be the best time ever to visit Rome, for several reasons.

Rome is amazing at springtime
you can skip the long hours under the sun waiting in line to entry in the Colosseum
the Vatican Museums are practically empty
it is finally possible to approach the Trevi Fountain and try to throw the coin to go back to Rome
visiting the Galleria Borghese Museum without a miraculous on-line book months in advance may be possible
the Mouth of Truth will no longer be only that of the film “Roman Holiday”, but you too can have a close meeting with that strange face

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Street art in Rome.