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Roma e Il Santuario dei Gatti di Largo Argentina

Quando i lavori edilizi del 1929 riportarono alla luce il complesso archeologico di Torre Argentina, in pochi avrebbero immaginato quale nuova e particolare storia sarebbe nata tra i 4 templi di età repubblicana ritrovati. È in questa area sacra infatti che Giulio Cesare, tra i più famosi condottieri romani, trovò la morte per mano di…

La Scala Elicoidale di Momo, la più fotografa al mondo!

La Scala Elicoidale, a doppia spirale, fu realizzata da Giuseppe Momo su commissione da Papa Pio XI nel 1929. Il Papa intervenne apportando alcune modifiche sul disegno originale dell’architetto che si ispirò a quella ideata da Bramante nel 1500 e già presente all’interno dei Musei. Ad oggi, la Scala Elicoidale è tra le più belle e…

Nasoni give you water since 1870s

No other city in the world can boast as many public drinking fountains as Rome, where there are 2.000. These little fountains are called Nasoni, literally meaning large nose, because of their characteristic design: most Nasoni share a design in the shape of a column. The form of the water spout varies but most nasoni…

At Uffizi Gallery you can live Italian Renaissance

The Uffizi Gallery is an important art museum next to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museum, it is also one of the largest and best known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from…

The Seven Hills, the geographical heart of Rome

Talking about the history of Rome means talking about Seven Hills, because they are intertwined with the foundation of Rome, the original delimitation of the citys limits and its consolidation of power over time. They form the geographical heart of Rome, within the walls of the city. Romulus and Remus founded the city on the…

Roman forum, the center of religious and public life in ancient Rome

The Roman Forum, located between Piazza Venezia and the Colosseum, is the greatest sign of the splendour of the Roman Empire that can be seen today. It is a rectangular square surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space as the Forum Magnum, or…

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, the most outstanding piece of work of Bernini

Canonized largely for the spritual visions she experienced, Teresa of Ávila was a Spanish noblewoman who chose a monastic life in the Catholic Church. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is the central sculptural group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. It was designed and…

Sistine Chapel, one of the best human masterpiece

The frescoes that we are contemplating here introduce us into the world of the contents of the Revelation. The truths of our faith speak to us here from all sides. From them human genius took its inspiration undertaking to clothe them in forms of incomparable beauty. (Pope John Paul II) The Sistine Chapel is a…

The secret beauty of Castel Sant’Angelo

Castel Sant’Angelo, also known as Hadrian’s Mausoleum, lies in Parco Adriano, very close to St. Peter’s Square. Commissioned by Roman Emperor Hadrian in 123AD as a mausoleum for himself and his relatives, it later became a fortress a few hundred years later in 401, under the orders of Emperor Honorius. It underwent intensive looting during…

The Popemobile

When the Pope approaches the pilgrims in St. Peter’s square, during the weekly Wednesday audience, he’s usually riding what most of us now call “the Popemobile”. The Popemobile is, quite literally: a pope-carrying vehicle. Before the Popemobile, there was the sedia gestatoria, which was a chair carried on the shoulders of papal attendants. The sedia…