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Bioparco
In 2006, Rome's zoo was Italy's 10th most-visited museum. While there are many more arresting sights in the Eternal City, some 747,000 people visited the 18-hectare site, taking in the collection of monkeys, elephants, lions and snakes. If your kids are driving you bonkers or you're crying out for a break from classical art, the zoo's always a good option.
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Foro Italico
At the foot of Monte Mario, the Foro Italico is an impressive Fascist-era sports complex. Designed by the architect Enrico Del Debbio, it remains much as it was originally conceived. A 17m-high marble obelisk, inscribed with the words 'Mussolini Dux', stands at the beginning of a broad avenue leading down to the Stadio dei Marmi, a running track surrounded by 60 marble nudes, and the Stadio Olimpico, Rome's 80,000-seat football stadium.
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Time Elevator
Down a small side street, the Time Elevator is ideal for armchair sightseers. Of the three programs, the one to see is Time Elevator Rome , a 45-minute virtual journey through 3000 years of Roman history. Shows kick off every hour and children and adults alike love the panoramic screens, flight-simulator technology and surround-sound system. Note that children under five aren't admitted and anyone who suffers motion sickness should probably pass.
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Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary
Cats may be as iconic in Rome as the Colosseum, but for many of the capital's felines, life is anything but purrfect. In the summer of 2007 alone, 400 kittens were abandoned at the city's volunteer-run Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary, a common occurrence in a country where neutering pets is hardly in vogue. Expectantly, sterilisation is the shelter's primary concern, along with nursing ill and injured cats and finding them good homes right across the world.
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Trevi Fountain
Rome's largest and most famous fountain, Fontana di Trevi was completed by Nicola Salvi in 1762, and immortalised by Marcello Mastroianni and a frolicking Anita Ekberg in Fellini's La Dolce Vita .
This extravagant baroque work takes up most of the piazza, appears to meld into the palazzo , and depicts Neptune's chariot being led by Tritons with seahorses - one wild, one docile - representing the moods of the sea.
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