Ruins in Italy

The Colosseum ( ; ) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is the largest standing amphitheatre in the world. Construction began under the Emperor Vespasian () in 72 and was completed in AD 80 under his successor and heir, Titus (). Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian (). The three emperors who were patrons of the work are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named the Flavian Amphitheatre (; ) by later classicists and archaeologists f

Pompeii (; ) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, it was buried under of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Ancient Roman center of the city, a landmark of Rome, Italy

Caronia (Sicilian: Carunìa, Greek: (Ptol.) or (Diod. et al.), Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the Metropolitan City of Messina, about halfway between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù). The town has 3,555 inhabitants.

public baths in ancient Rome

archaeological sites in Rome

Sybaris (; ) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria, Italy.

Oplontis is an ancient Roman archaeological site, located in the town of Torre Annunziata, south of Naples in the Campania region of southern Italy. The excavated site comprises two Roman villas, the best-known of which is Villa A, the so-called Villa Poppaea.

ruins

square in Rome, Italy

Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy

ancient city of Sicily

Aeclanum (also spelled Aeculanum, , ) was an ancient town of Samnium, Southern Italy, about 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia. It lies in Passo di Mirabella, near the modern Mirabella Eclano.

Roman amphitheatre in Pozzuoli, Italy

thumb|300px|City gate

thumb|350px|Ancient Pre-Hellenic Sicily thumb|300px|Rocca di Entella - Site of Entella

Roman ruins of sacred architecture in Milan

thumb|Stater of Laus with man-headed bull, c. 490-470 BC

Halaesa (, Latin: Halaesa), also known as Halaesa Archonidea and also spelled Alaesa or Halesa was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near the north coast of the island, between Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù) and Calacte (modern Caronia).

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archaeological site in Rome, Italy

was the river port of the ancient Rome, that rose approximately between the Aventine Hill and the Rione Testaccio

Roman amphitheatre in Milan, Italy

thumb|300px|Ancient Theatre

Roman vicus in Italy

Agathyrnum or Agathyrna (), was an ancient city of Magna Graecia on the north coast of Sicily between Tyndaris and Calacte. It was supposed to have derived its name from Agathyrnus (), a son of Aeolus, who is said to have founded the city. But though it may be inferred from this story that it was an ancient city, and probably of Spartan origin (as a colony of the very near town of Demenna), we find no mention of it in history until after Sicily became a Roman province. During the Second Punic War it became the headquarters of a band of robbers and freebooters, who extended their ravages over t

a complex of cisterns located on the Oppian Hill in Rome

Mytistraton or Mytistratus or Myttistraton (Greek: , Μυτισέρατος Steph. B., Diod.; , Zonar.; , Pol.), was an ancient town in the interior of Sicily, the site of which is located at modern the località of Monte Castellazzo di Marianopoli, in the comune of Marianopoli, in the Province of Caltanissetta.

former abbey in Contigliano, Italy

historic palace in Messina, Italy

Roman temple of Flora at Cerreto Sannita