We went on to Rome, but our best memories return to the farmhouse along the Tiber.

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It has been at its present site, on the banks of the Tiber River, since 1938, when Mussolini ordered it placed near the emperor's tomb.

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Bus routes were rerouted and many streets were closed off in an attempt to channel the curious and faithful up the main boulevard from the Tiber river to St.

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Billions of lire have been set aside to drive a road-tunnel under the rim of the ancient fort of Castel St Angelo, to push traffic faster along the banks of the river Tiber.

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The coda lies across the Tiber, within the hallowed walls of the Pantheon, where tributes of flowers - roses, lilies and roses again - are daily offered to Raphael, enclosed in his carved marble tomb.

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Until now, no major shipyard building for Rome had been identified, apart from the possibility of one on the Tiber near Monte Testaccio, and a smaller one recently claimed for the neighbouring river port at Ostia.

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Most observers date the phenomenon to an Italian teen novel titled "I Want You, " published in 2006, featuring two Roman lovers who immortalized their bond on a bridge in the Eternal City and threw the key in the Tiber.

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Like the legendary ancient Roman hero, Publius Horatius Cocles (Horatius to his friends) - who legend has it saved his city and made possible its future glory by singlehandedly holding off an army of Etruscan warriors at a bridge over the Tiber River - he has not been dissuaded from fighting for what he believes in by long odds or intense political pressure.

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