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Hotel Forum Rome - Luxury Quality Accomodation
Rome Italy
The
Pantheon Rome is the only completely intact
piece of Roman Architecture left in the world.
It is simply breathtaking and no visit to Roma
is complete without a look inside where, among
other things you can find the remains of Raphael
the painter - 3 years ago American and Italian
Scientists took a sample of his DNA and took
cross samples from several thousand Tuscan Residents
in an attempt to try and find his direct descendant...
they didn't succeed but are still looking. The
Pantheon is held up by huge monolithic marble
pillars each weighing 90 tonnes which were miraculously
brought to Rome by sea from Egypt over 2000
years ago.
Inside
the Pantheon you should look up and admire the
ornate ceiling... Curiously the Pantheon's height
is exactly the same as the radius of its' dome...
consequently inside it could host a perfect
circle or better still would be the perfect
place for a fisheye photo... if only they'd
let Mr McKie our virtual photographer inside
this historic building !
Did
you Know? The Pantheon contains lots
of holes in the marble floor to let the rain
drain out (rain enters the Pantheon through
the "oculus" a hole in the roof 9
metres wide and a symbolic link between the
Roman worshippers and their gods).
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