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13 stories set in Italy, including Rome, Capitoline Hill, Rome, Rome to Capua, Tarquinia, Etruria, Cerveteri, Etruria, Sardinia, Barumini, Sardinia, Rome, Italy.

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Cloaca Maxima: a world wonder of c. 600 BCE (World Wonder · Rome) — c. 600 BCE, Rome. Rome’s “greatest sewer,” begun under the kings, turned a Forum marsh into a city by putting the swamp underground.
Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus: a world wonder of c. 509 BCE (World Wonder · Capitoline Hill, Rome) — c. 509 BCE, Capitoline Hill, Rome. The Republic’s foundation-year temple to the Capitoline triad, the largest in central Italy, with Etrusca
The Appian Way: a world wonder of c. 312 BCE (World Wonder · Rome to Capua) — c. 312 BCE, Rome to Capua. Appius Claudius Caecus drove a straight, hard road south — so durable that “as old as the Appian Way” became a pr
Painted tombs of Tarquinia: a world wonder of c. 700 BCE (World Wonder · Tarquinia, Etruria) — c. 700 BCE, Tarquinia, Etruria. Etruscan elites dined, danced, and dived into painted afterlives in underground rooms that are the best colo
Banditaccia necropolis, Cerveteri: a world wonder of c. 700 BCE (World Wonder · Cerveteri, Etruria) — c. 700 BCE, Cerveteri, Etruria. Tumuli laid out as a town of the dead, with carved stone chairs and ceiling beams imitating wooden houses.
Nuraghe Santu Antine: a world wonder of c. 1600 BCE (World Wonder · Sardinia) — c. 1600 BCE, Sardinia. A Bronze Age stone tower with corbelled chambers and a bastion, part of thousands of nuraghi that make Sardinia a for
Su Nuraxi of Barumini: a world wonder of c. 1500 BCE (World Wonder · Barumini, Sardinia) — c. 1500 BCE, Barumini, Sardinia. A UNESCO nuraghe-village: central tower, four-lobe bastion, and a huddle of circular huts that grew for cen
The Colosseum: a world wonder of c. 80 CE (World Wonder · Rome, Italy) — c. 80 CE, Rome, Italy. Vespasian and Titus opened an amphitheatre that could hold ~50,000 spectators — a concrete-and-stone machine for empi
The Pantheon: a world wonder of c. 126 CE (World Wonder · Rome, Italy) — c. 126 CE, Rome, Italy. Hadrian’s temple keeps the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built — an oculus that rains into the floor and s
Brunelleschi’s Dome, Florence: a world wonder of c. 1436 CE (World Wonder · Florence, Italy) — c. 1436 CE, Florence, Italy. Filippo Brunelleschi raised a double-shell dome without centering timber — a Renaissance brain-teaser solved in
Baths of Caracalla: a world wonder of c. 216 CE (World Wonder · Rome, Italy) — c. 216 CE, Rome, Italy. Imperial baths the size of a neighbourhood — vaults that later inspired Renaissance architects.
San Vitale mosaics, Ravenna: a world wonder of c. 547 CE (World Wonder · Ravenna, Italy) — c. 547 CE, Ravenna, Italy. Justinian and Theodora in glittering tesserae — Byzantine politics painted in glass and gold.
MOSE flood barriers, Venice: a world wonder of c. 2020 CE (World Wonder · Venice, Italy) — c. 2020 CE, Venice, Italy. Mobile gates that rise from the lagoon floor to hold back Adriatic surges — a city fighting the sea with engineer

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