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Flowers for St Peter Sunday mass

5/15/2013

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Papa Francesco is meeting the faithful more often than the previous popes, and he's rooting his relation with them through prayer.
Every Sunday since Easter he has celebrated mass in St. Peter square.
Every Saturday new flowers are arranged...
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The Virgin Aqueduct found below department store under construction in Rome historical centre

5/9/2013

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ImmagineVia del Nazareno arches
The historical brand ‘la Rinascente’ has been acquired by a Thai company, the  Central Retail Corporation, which bought the 100 percent of the brand in May 2011 for € 205 million.
They’re planning to open a great luxury department store in Rome by 2015 and works are under way in a large palace located  in the area between Trevi fountain and Spanish square, along Tritone street.


As soon as the work started and the excavations begun it was
discovered underneath the palace a long piece of the Virgin Aqueduct.
This major public work dates back to the times of Emperor Augustus. His great friend and son in law, the consul Marcus Vipsanio Agrippa provided the area of the the Pincio, the Pantheon and its thermal baths with water having  the Virgin water aqueduct accomplished  in 19 BC .
Some arcades of this important aqueduct are already visible on via del Nazareno. 

The new Rinascente store will have a kind of archaeological museum below…the ruins of the Virgin aqueduct arches will be visible for  their clients.
We’ll soon have shopping and history combined together…

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Monument to Giordano Bruno, 1889

5/3/2013

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The monument to Giordano Bruno dominates the charming Campo dei Fiori square in Rome’s historical centre.

The monument was paid by  two internationaluniversity
committees, made of men of culture from all over Europe, in the 1880s. 
The City of Rome agreed on locating the monument in Campo de 'Fiori,  the actual place of  Giordano Bruno’s execution.

On January 20, 1600, the Pope Clement VII declared Bruno an heretic and the inquisition issued a death sentence.
He was accused of holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith (about Trinity, Christ, Incarnation, the Virgin Mary, etc.), speaking against his ministers, believing in metempsychosis and dealing with divination and magic.

He was burnt at a stake on February 17,1600 in the Campo dei Fiori:
“his tongue imprisoned because of his wicked words”.

The author of Giordano Bruno’s monument is Ettore Ferrari;  in
his first version he represented Giordano Bruno defiantly before the Inquisition, but the sketch was not accepted and he made a new one ​​with Giordano Bruno depicted in the attitude of the philosopher, reflecting, with his hands crossed on his book and looking straight ahead.

On the monument's granite base are eight bronze medallions with portraits of free thinkers and three reliefs with the most important episodes in the life of Bruno. The statue, made ​​of bronze, was cast at the foundry Crescenzi in Rome.


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