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in September 1822 to provide an eye-catcher in the vistas; it is a Roman obelisk, not an Egyptian one, erected under the Emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century, as part of a memorial to his beloved Antinous outside the Porta Maggiore. The Piazza Napoleone - in fact Napoleon's grand urbanistic example was set from a distance, as he never visited Rome - is a grand open space that looks out over Piazza del Popolo,

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