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The contrasting themes and traditions in Classical and Baroque Sculpture

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PLACES IN ROME

Mount Vesuvius

Vesuvius is most famous for the 79 AD eruption which destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Though the volcano's last eruption was in 1944, it still represents a great danger to the cities that surround it.

Hills and mountains

Apennine Mountains- divide Italy into east and west physically and culturally. The Apennines is the second main mountain range of Italy and stretches for hundreds of kilometers from the north to the south along the Country’s main axis.

Po River valley

a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD