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    An exhibition called "Aquileia, the great lost city" will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London from March to May 2015. This will be the first time the ancient Roman city of Aquileia in Italy is exhibited outside of Italy. The exhibition aims to educate the British public about the important role Aquileia played in the Roman Empire and how it helped shape the modern world. It also hopes to boost tourism to Aquileia and the surrounding Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy. Admission to the free exhibition is open to the public.

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    An exhibition called "Aquileia, the great lost city" will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London from March to May 2015. This will be the first time the ancient Roman city of Aquileia in Italy is exhibited outside of Italy. The exhibition aims to educate the British public about the important role Aquileia played in the Roman Empire and how it helped shape the modern world. It also hopes to boost tourism to Aquileia and the surrounding Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy. Admission to the free exhibition is open to the public.

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    An exhibition of Aquileia, the


    great lost city at The Royal
    Geographical Society
    There will be an exhibition of Aquileia the great lost city at the
    Royal Geographical Society in the heart of London from 5th March
    to the end of May 2015. This is the first time that Aquileia has been
    shown outside of Italy.
    Aquileia is unknown in the English speaking
    world and yet it was so crucial to Romes Defence
    and the creation of the Roman Empire. Julius
    Caesar used Aquileia as a military base, where
    the famous Xth legion was stationed, when he
    was conquering Gaul.
    Peter Marshall, the Project Director/Creator
    and exhibitor, together with his assistant and
    photographer Giancarlo Piccinin, began working
    on this project in May 2012. There have been many
    meetings in London with Alasdair Macleod, Director
    of Events and Exhibitions at the RGS, who needed
    little persuasion to agree to show this exhibition for
    a period of three months.
    The former British Ambassador to Rome, Sir Ivor
    Roberts, now President of Trinity College at Oxford
    University, along with many others who have offered
    their help and support, have helped us make this
    exhibition possible and we can only thank them
    all for their foresight and vision. This also includes
    those sponsors and donors who have made their
    contributions in kind to help pay for this non-profit
    and non-commercial exhibition that will help us
    all learn about a place that has been forgotten.
    Admission to the exhibition is free.
    Aquileia has helped shape our modern world today.
    It is good for the region of Friuli Veneto Giulia, good
    for Aquileia, good for the local economy, and also for
    our children to learn about a place that has in many
    ways helped shape the modern world. It is also
    good for London to learn about a place that helped
    establish the city as a major trading centre, with its
    fine buildings and churches, modelled on those fine
    buildings that stood like giants in Roman Aquileia
    and elsewhere throughout the Roman world. The
    exhibition will draw positive attention at a time
    when the local economy, as elsewhere in Europe,
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    could do with a boost. We will all reap the benefits


    of increased tourism and the spotlight rightfully
    being shone on Aquileias unsurpassed cultural
    legacy. Aquileia, the great lost city will make
    the strong cultural bond between Italy and Britain
    even stronger, with the image of Aquileia restored
    to its rightful place as a Great and Imperial City,
    rich in the culture and beauty that once flowed, and
    still does, through the veins of this wonderful part
    of Italy.
    How fitting that Aquileia should be going to London
    when Londinium was once the capital of Roman
    England! We can all feel proud of the city that survived
    Attilas wrath when he destroyed it in 452AD, and
    support this exhibition in any way we can. Local
    institutions and cultural departments will benefit
    from this exhibition as it focuses on education and
    informing the British public about a very important
    historical place. One of the main ultimate objectives
    is to attract increased British tourism to Aquileia
    and to the FVG region as a whole.
    Comments made by tourists who have visited
    Aquileia from the UK include the following: The
    Basilica and the mosaic floor are quite stupendous!
    and Never knew the place existed. That will
    change by May next year.
    Once Londoners and other British people, along
    with the large Italian community living and working
    in London and the UK, not to mention the hundreds
    of thousands from all over the world who visit
    Britain, get a taste of this great city, they will want
    to go and see it for real, and we look forward to
    welcoming them in Aquileia when they do! The
    Mayor of Aquileia, The Foundation of Aquileia
    and the Museum of Aquileia in turn will prepare
    themselves for this new tourism wave, along with
    the Tourism Department of the FVG region.

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