Capital of the world has secrets in tourist attractions and other very strange places
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!
It's tradition: every tourist who goes to Rome Throw up to three coins into the Trevi Fountain. The tourist spot accumulates, per year, around 1,5 million euros (around 6,5 million reais)! With a vacuum cleaner, Caritas, a Catholic organization, takes an hour to collect the money every day. It is then donated to charity.
HISTORICAL COMBO
The Circus Maximus was the place where chariot races were held. The place is already interesting for that reason, but there is more: there is a temple, dating back to the 2nd century, hidden underground. It was used for rituals in honor of Mithras, god of the Sun.
CODED FORTUNE
Piazza Vittorio has the mysterious Magic Door. The land belonged to a marquis who was obsessed with turning lead into gold. The Door has inscriptions that have not yet been deciphered. Some believe that they hold the formula to finally realize this great dream of alchemy.
DEATH DECORATION
The Church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini hides a very macabre decoration: the walls of the crypt are lined with the remains of around 4 thousand friars.
HIDDEN MIRACLE
The Chiesa Nuova Church has a motorized frame (!). He is in front of the painting Madonna con il Bambino Benedicente, which, legend has it, bled many years ago. The engine causes the frame to descend and reveal the miraculous work.
EGYPT IN ITALY
It could be Cairo, but it is Rome. Pyramid of Cestius it was built between 18 and 12 BC and was the tomb of Gaius Cestius Epulão, a member of the Roman clergy. But little is known about it, because the place was looted years ago.
IT'S ALL FREE
Well, not everything, but water is. The historic center has several metal fountains, called nasoni, which have drinking water. They were spread there in 1874, by order of Mayor Luigi Pianciani.
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By Luiza Wolf / SuperInteressante
