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Bernini's Project for a Church in the Colosseum and the Memory of Martyrs
One of the creators of Roman Baroque, the great sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), builder of Saint Peter's Square, contemplated the decline of another landmark of Rome: since the fourteenth century the Colosseum had been in a pitiable state, crumbling ever further. Despite its worldwide fame since
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Vatican police escort a blogger out of St Peter's Basilica and attempt to arrest her for dancing inside the church and filming it
Vatican police escorted out of St Peter's Basilica, and attempted to arrest, a blogger who had been dancing inside the church and filming it. The silly girl, naturally, at once raised a howl about it online. Each time I see activities of this sort, I want to ask:
Architecture · Heritage · Mores · People · Rome
Designer Alessandro Michele on his apartment in the restored Palazzo Scapucci in Rome
“I am not sure that time passes as the calendar or the clock describes it. 800 years of these walls is, for me, the present. That is why I am not nostalgic. I never truly believe that those who are no longer alive have gone. Everyone leaves a deep imprint
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Rome · Humour
Car park in the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican seen in a satellite image
The world's most exclusive car park can be seen in a satellite image of the Vatican. The lower part of the Belvedere Courtyard, one of the most famous and significant palaces of the Renaissance, is used as a car park. Every age has its hallmarks
Observations · Pop Culture · Rome · Humour
Miniature replica of the Trevi Fountain made as a handbag
A Ladies' Handbag in the Form of the Trevi Fountain, by Dolce & Gabbana. The only odd thing is that there is no crowd of tourists around it, trying to photograph the fountain
NB! · Art · Cinema · Rome
Posters for the 1972 film “Roma”, or “Fellini’s Roma”
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In Rome the Bocca della Verità and the Cloaca Maxima lie close to the Forum Boarium
From the Mouth of Truth to the Cloaca Maxima is a stone's throw. Eternal, all the same, this city of Rome
Faith · The East · Society · Rome
“Herod, fearing deposition, killed children who are still being torn apart by bombs today; Pilate washed his hands, as we risk doing every day, until we reach the point of no return”
Pope Leo XIV on Netanyahu’s crimes and the complicity of the West
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Hall of Constantine in the Vatican, painted under five popes, and a restoration milestone
After ten years of painstaking restoration, the state Hall of Constantine in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican has regained its original splendour. The largest of the Raphael Rooms, named after the Roman emperor who granted Christians freedom of worship, was decorated under five pontiffs over the course of the
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Greco-Roman Wrestling Among the Ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome, 1960
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Pope Leo XIV posts photos from a visit to the Vatican Radio transmission centre, an extraterritorial possession of the Vatican in the Santa Maria di Galeria area, 18 kilometres north-west of the centre of Rome
And do you know, it is quite an enviable plot of land, 430 hectares in extent, ten times the size of the Vatican itself, which covers 44 hectares. The visit of Leo XIV, together with officials of the Dicastery for Communication and the office of the Governorate of Vatican City