I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
Matthew 25:35
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12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 29th 2024
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Rome 2024
Basilica San Lorenzo Lucina
Located in the Rione Colonna, San Lorenzo in Lucina is one of the oldest churches in Rome. The building stands on a domus, probably owned by Lucina, a wealthy Roman matron who allegedly founded an “ecclesia domestica”, a place for worship inside a private house.
A second theory connects the name of the basilica to an [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 26th 2024
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Near to the Spanish Steps
5 Comments CherryPie on Sep 25th 2024
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The Spanish Steps
Spanish Steps, staircase in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna that climbs the steep slope between the plaza and the church of Trinità dei Monti above. It consists of 135 steps and was built between 1723 and 1725. Though it was funded with a bequest left by a French diplomat, it was named for the Bourbon Spanish Embassy to the Holy See [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2024
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Khalil Gibran
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 22nd 2024
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Triton Fountain
Represented on the valves of a huge shell, with the erect torso and scaly legs of a sea monster, the Triton stands imposingly with his head bent back in an effort to blow into the large buccina (or twisted shell) that he supports with his arms raised upwards and from which the water that irrigates [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 19th 2024
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Rome 2024
Fountain of the Bees
Its original location was on the corner of Palazzo Soderini, between Piazza Barberini and Via Sistina. In one of the rooms on the ground floor of the building, Bernini had in fact designed a “booty” for water, that is, a system to collect the return water from the Triton fountain, which he had designed a [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 18th 2024
