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That said, there’s popular perception, thanks to movies like Russell Crowe’s Gladiator, that Rome gleams as a city drenched in white marble. But the reality is, though only the splendid white marble from the quarries in the Apuan Alps (Carrara) would do for the main monuments of the Roman city, the Empire imported marble from their conquests – Numidia (today’s Tunisia), Greece and Egypt – and then extracted closer to the capital for municipal buildings, making the city a riot of colour especially with bright wall-frescoes.
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