Volterra, Tuscany, Italy
Volterra, in Tuscany, Italy is one of the most attractive of all the Tuscan walled towns. It's amazingly preserved. The town is about a thousand years old and the buildings we see today easily date back to the Middle Ages and the earliest foundations of Volterra go back to the Etruscan days, nearly 3000 years ago. This movie features local Tuscan guide, Annie Adair, who will take us on an extended walking tour through Volterra. Annie explains about the history, architecture, culture and daily life in the city today. She conducts regular tours in Volterra and Tuscany, and can be found at her website, for more information.
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Pope enjoys melody of Polyphonic Choir at the Vatican
It's no secret that Benedict XVI loves music. On Saturday he got a chance to enjoy a polyphonic choir at the Vatican's Paul VI Hall. Dozens of liturgical choirs were brought together by the Italian Association of Santa Cecilia, which is holding its National Congress in Rome. Benedict XVI welcomed them all to the Vatican.
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NJSBA Mid-Year Meeting - Rome, Italy
Join us in Rome from November 3 – 10 at the luxurious Westin Excelsior hotel for the 2018 New Jersey State Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting. Whether this is your first visit to the Eternal City or an encore visit, Italy's capital city is one of the world's crown jewels and has something special to offer everyone.
The city of Rome provides visitors a living master class of art, architecture, culture and sumptuous cuisine. It has thrived through 3,000 years of glorious and tumultuous history, tracking its birth to the start of Western Civilization. From the Sistine Chapel, to Bernini sculptures of nymphs, to the other-worldliness of Fellini films, Rome has a richness of culture that is comparable to none.
Our Mid-Year Meeting headquarters hotel is in the grand style of European palaces and is located on the Via Vittorio Veneto, a bustling thoroughfare meant for strolling, shopping, enjoying an espresso, or viewing the art that greets you every step of the way.
The event offers attendees the opportunity to earn up to 12 CLE credits at educational programming, and to mix and mingle with colleagues and peers while sharing stories of the day’s adventures. Two special special events, the Welcome Reception and Wine Tasting, as well as the President’s Reception, are both included in the registration fee.
The gathering will also feature a fun-filled evening of traditional Italian music, singing, pizza, pasta and other Roman delicacies at Il Pomodorino, located just two blocks from the hotel. This casual ticketed event will be the perfect way to cap off a busy day of education and touring.
An array of private tour packages includes half-day excursions to the Vatican, as well as the major sites of Imperial and Renaissance Rome. You can even sign up for a pizza-making class. Full-day offerings to Florence, Orvieto and Civita di Bagnoregio, as well as Pompeii and Naples will also be available.
We look forward to seeing you in November at the 2018 Mid-Year Meeting in Rome, Italy—a spectacular trip you will not want to miss.
Michelangelo's Italy
Rick Steves European Travel Talk | Join Gene Openshaw, co-author of Rick Steves' Europe 101: History & Art, as he shares the work and travels of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarroti — sculptor, painter, architect, and poet — was both prolific and well-traveled. We'll trace the life, work and travels of Earth's Greatest Artist, visiting the Italian cities where he created his masterpieces. You may be surprised to find that the Italy of today is just as culturally rich as it was in the days of Michelangelo. (Please note this presentation was filmed April 14, 2012 and any special promotions or discounts mentioned are no longer valid.) Gene's Europe 101: History & Art for the Traveler book is available at
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Resting place of Keats and Shelly in Rome
Rome - July 2007
1. Cemetery sign Campo Cestio - the old cemetery for non Catholic foreigners
2. Wide shot cemetery
3. Mid shot people walking in cemetery grounds
4. Tilt down sign listing directions to the graves of English Romantic poets John Keats (1795 - 1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), August von Goethe (the son of German poet, playwright and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) and Italian political writer and activist, Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937)
5. Close-up tomb statue
6. Pan from cemetery grounds to Pyramid of Cestius (tomb of Ancient Roman priest Caius Cestius)
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Julian Kliemann, Board of directors, the Non-Catholic Cemetery:
The history of this cemetery goes back to the 18th century and actually you know that for the Protestants it was not easy to be buried here in Rome because it was a Catholic city and so they had to be buried somewhere outside. In fact the first burials took place at night, because the authorities thought it would be offending for the population to see a non-Catholic be buried here.
8. Mid shot couple walking through cemetery
9. Mid shot graves of John Keats and his friend Joseph Severn
10. Close-up Severn's tombstone
11. Close-up vase with a famous quote from Keats inscribed on it: Beauty is truth, truth beauty
12. Close-up inscription on Keats' gravestone Here lies one whose names is writ in water.
13. Wide of cemetery with Pyramid of Cestius in the background
14. Various Shelley's grave
15. Wide of women walking in cemetery grounds
16. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Michele Garribba, Visitor:
This is not a cemetery, it is a part of the western world. This place represents much more than a cemetery, because people that wrote things that are part of our culture are buried here.
17. Mid shot tourist, JW. Novotny looking at Angel of Grief statue with his wife (Angel of Grief: tomb of American sculptor and poet, William Wetmore Story and his wife, Emelyn Story)
18. Mid shot Angel of Grief statue
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) J.W. Novotny, Tourist from Florida, US:
The W.W. Story story is that him and his wife came here from Boston after he gave up his job and went into sculpting, he wanted to be an artist. When she died, he created this, his last work for her, and it took him about six or seven years to finish it and after it was finished he died of a broken heart supposedly because there was no medical explanation of why he died, and it is called the Angel of Grief.
20. Mid shot graves
21. Various of section of cemetery where repairs are being made due to fallen tree branch
22. Close-up cat sleeping in cemetery
23. Pan from cemetery maintenance truck to gravestones
24. Wide of sprinklers
25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Julian Kliemann, Board of directors, the Non-Catholic Cemetery:
It is our aim to maintain more or less as it always has been a very romantic and fascinating place which requires of course a lot of planning. You know a tree which you plant today will be full grown only in 25 or 30 years so you have to make long-term plans and we have to finance it and get the necessary funding for the maintenance of such an important place.
26. Various tombstones
27. Close-up date on a more recent tomb
28. Various tomb and statue of 11 year old Bulgarian boy Georges Volkoff
29. Various sculptures
30. Wide shot cemetery
31. Exterior cemetery
32. Mid shot Roman Aurelian wall
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Wardens of an Italian cemetery reserved for non-Catholics say they are struggling to maintain the ancient site.
The Campo Cestio cemetery also known as the Non-Catholic cemetery in Rome houses the graves of many famous non-Catholics including the great English poets, Keats and Shelley.
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Imperial cult (ancient Rome) | Wikipedia audio article
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The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State. Its framework was based on Roman and Greek precedents, and was formulated during the early Principate of Augustus. It was rapidly established throughout the Empire and its provinces, with marked local variations in its reception and expression.
Augustus's reforms transformed Rome's Republican system of government to a de facto monarchy, couched in traditional Roman practices and Republican values. The princeps (later known as Emperor) was expected to balance the interests of the Roman military, Senate and people, and to maintain peace, security and prosperity throughout an ethnically diverse empire. The official offer of cultus to a living emperor acknowledged his office and rule as divinely approved and constitutional: his Principate should therefore demonstrate pious respect for traditional Republican deities and mores.
A deceased emperor held worthy of the honor could be voted a state divinity (divus, plural divi) by the Senate and elevated as such in an act of apotheosis. The granting of apotheosis served religious, political and moral judgment on Imperial rulers and allowed living Emperors to associate themselves with a well-regarded lineage of Imperial divi from which unpopular or unworthy predecessors were excluded. This proved a useful instrument to Vespasian in his establishment of the Flavian Imperial Dynasty following the death of Nero and civil war, and to Septimius in his consolidation of the Severan dynasty after the assassination of Commodus.
The Imperial cult was inseparable from that of Rome's official deities, whose cult was essential to Rome's survival and whose neglect was therefore treasonous. Traditional cult was a focus of Imperial revivalist legislation under Decius and Diocletian. Christian apologists and martyrologists saw the cult of the Emperor as a particularly offensive instrument of pagan impiety and persecution. It therefore became a focus of theological and political debate during the ascendancy of Christianity under Constantine I. The emperor Julian failed to reverse the declining support for Rome's official religious practices: Theodosius I adopted Christianity as Rome's state religion. Rome's traditional gods and Imperial cult were officially abandoned. However, many of the rites, practices and status distinctions that characterized the cult to emperors were perpetuated in the theology and politics of the Christianized Empire.
Etranges Escales : Rome
Dans ce nouvel épisode des Etranges Escales, vous allez voir que les chemins de la curiosité, comme tous les autres, mènent à Rome !
Cet épisode est le second d'une saison financée par la campagne Ulule Etranges Escales. Merci infiniment à tous les contributeurs, c'est grâce à vous que ce projet peut exister !
Freiraum Rome, Italy
Wherever mafias grow, they control the territory and the businesses through the use of violence and corruption. It also happens in Rome, where the absence of institutions turned mafias into welfare providers, especially in the suburbs.
However someone still cares about the future and is trying to make it better, fighting for rights, social justice, and culture. This is anti-mafia, and it needs participation, sharing and partnership with those who believe in change.
Museum of the souls of purgatory, a place between heaven a
Were in Rome, a city known around the world for its history and art. But few people know about this small museum dedicated to the souls of purgatory.
Its on the banks of the Tiber river, in the only church in Rome built in neo-gothic style. Its one of the most original collections in the Eternal City.
Father Jouet, first parishioner of the church, dedicated himself to spreading the devotion of the souls of purgatory. Thats why he has travelled throughout Europe searching for stories told by the living about visits from the souls of purgatory asking for prayers.
Father Mario Di Ianni
Missionary, Sacred Heart of Suffrage
The museum of purgatory, as its name rightly bears, is a collection of documents of apparitions that the souls of purgatory made in Europe to ask for prayers.
Here you can see the burn mark that Palmira Rastelli left on a book in 1871. With this apparition she asked that several Masses be offered for her soul. Or this other object, the print of the hand of Luisa LeSenechal on her husbands night cap. She visited him in 1875 to ask him to pray for her.
Father Mario Di Ianni
Missionary, Sacred Heart of Suffrage
Our brother collected all these testimonies to spread the devotion of the souls of purgatory. This is the prayer for those who are in purgatory and that have not yet entered heaven.
The museums mission is to revive the ancient Christian tradition of praying for the souls of the dead that have to purify themselves before entering heaven. Its a devotion welcomed by the Church that has nothing to do with extraordinary or paranormal phenomena.
Father Mario Di Ianni
Missionary, Sacred Heart of Suffrage
These are personal objects that dont interfere with faith at all. We believe in purgatory because its a dogma of faith. These documents dont increase or diminish it. But they remind us of the reality of purgatory and of the souls that are in it. This is whats important.
Its a small museum in memory of those that cant yet see God and that are gracious for some help through prayer. .
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New generation of patriarchs: young and fully prepared bishops
Pope Francis is the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church. In addition to a priest, he was a chemical technician. He brings to the Eternal City his unwavering humanity. Chronologically, he's the latest face added to the list of 21st Century Christian leaders. They have all earned civilian degrees and display great commitment to social causes. .
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Virtual tour available for Pope's former cathedral in Argentina
This weekend Pope Francis will take possession of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the ceremonial seat for the Bishop of Rome, and one of the most storied cathedrals in the Eternal City.
The power and ease of the web allows users to visit the Pope's former seat as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, the Metropolitan Cathedral in that capital city. .
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Iowa State's Classic Europe Graduation Adventure
Iowa State Grads, Classes of 2018-2020: Come join us on an unforgettable voyage through England, France, Italy, Vatican City, and Greece to celebrate your graduation from Iowa State! The ISU Alumni Association's new and already-popular young alumni travel program is offering this graduation celebration for the third year in a row in 2020, starting at a price of just $3,099.
In London, see Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Tower of London. See the Eiffel Tower and explore the best museums of Paris. Get whisked away via high-speed train to the French Riviera – playground for the rich and famous! Discover the ‘Eternal City’ of Rome, where the Colosseum and Forum remind us of its dramatic past, conjuring up visions of Caesar and mighty gladiators. Venture across the Tiber River to Vatican City –the world’s smallest state. Explore Pompeii where volcanic ash preserved the city almost exactly as it was more than 2,000 years ago, then enjoy living like a Greek god or goddess on the Isle of Poros with its stunning beaches and aquamarine waters. End your grand tour in Athens where the Acropolis is one of the world's most breathtaking ancient ruins. Immerse in each country’s culture, cuisine, architecture and history.
To learn more, email Lainey Crawford at laineyc@iastate.edu or visit the website:
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Le Basiliche di Roma da Bernini a Michelangelo (parte 1)
IT: Questo video è un itinerario nella Roma cristiana, alla scoperta delle basiliche alla cui realizzazione hanno contribuito tutti i maggiori artisti italiani, dal Bernini al Borromini. Un viaggio del genere non può non contemplare una visita alle quattro Basiliche papali di Roma, San Pietro, San Giovanni in Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore e San Paolo fuori le mura, attraversando la cosiddetta “porta santa” aperta solo in occasione del Giubileo, o alla basilica patriarcale di San Lorenzo fuori le mura ed alla michelangiolesca Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.
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Italia Virtual Tour è un portale di marketing territoriale creato per valorizzare le bellezze del nostro paese: siti archeologici, monumenti, chiese, comuni, musei e parchi naturali.
Comunicando Leader and Italia Virtual Tour present the Way of St. Benedict, a project conceived and curated in collaboration with Simone Frignani - writer & traveller - and the Non-profit Association Friends of the Way of St. Benedict.
EN: The project was realized with the contribution of the Lazio Region and local authorities involved in the spiritual path.
The marketing strategies have been mainly focused on the territory and the municipalities affected by the Way of Saint. The goal of the project is to aggregate the many aspects of the local tourism, such as historical and archaeological wealth, nature and landscape.
The path is made up of 16 stages, from Norcia to Monte Cassino, through the amazing landscapes and natural areas of Umbria and Lazio.
The Way retraces the places of the spiritual path of the Saint in Central Italy and involves small villages, castles, monasteries and tourist villages with an untouched historical and cultural heritage, and with a large tourism potential, not yet attacked by mass tourism.
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Audio | J. Krishnamurti – Rome 1973 – Group Disc. 2 – Ending the chattering of the mind
Audio | J. Krishnamurti – Rome 1973 - Small Group Discussion 2 – Ending the chattering of the mind
One should know oneself, otherwise there is no foundation for clear thinking.
We are conditioned to the idea of gradual progress.
When there is chattering it is a dissipation of the energy of thought.
Is thought functioning objectively, sanely and non-fragmentarily?
What is thinking?
When thought is constantly in operation it wears itself out, becomes mechanical, has no depth or vitality and there is nothing new.
What place has knowledge in the transformation of man and society?
How is the mind to change so radically that it is totally different?
What is the place of thought in relationship?
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Roma HD. Rome in 4 days. Rome en 4 jours. Řím za 4 dny. [cz,en,fr]
[en,fr,cz] Ability to enable information subtitles on the screen bottom right. Possibilité d'activer des informations sous-titres sur le droit de fond d'écran. Možnost zapnout informační titulky na obrazovce vpravo dole.
*** Rome is a city and special comune (named Roma Capitale) in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and also of the homonymous province and of the region of Lazio. With 2.8 million residents in 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. Between 3.2 and 3.8 million people live in the urban area, and 4,194,068 in Rome metropolitan area.The city is one of Europe's and the world's most successful city brands, both in terms of reputation and assets. Its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
*** Rome est la capitale de l'Italie depuis 1871. Elle se trouve dans la région du Latium, dans le centre du pays. Avec 2 783 300 habitants établis sur 1 285 km² (4 103 250 habitants avec l'agglomération en 2009).Rome est la troisième destination touristique la plus visitée d'Europe derrière Londres et Paris et son centre historique est classé par l'Unesco comme site du patrimoine mondial.
*** Řím se rozkládá na ploše 1285 km2 a leží na sedmi pahorcích -- Aventin, Celio, Esquilin, Kapitol, Palatin, Quirinal a Viminal. Městem protéká řeka Tiber, která ústí do Tyrhenského moře. Počet obyvatel: 4 mil. Podle historických pramenů byl Řím založen v roce 753 př.n.l.. Tento letopočet byl také historiky přijat za tradiční datum založení Říma. První sídla však na pahorcích Kapitol a Palatin vznikla pravděpodobně již v 10. století př.n.l. Později se osady rozšířily i na ostatní pahorky a jejich postupným spojováním začalo vznikat město.
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Rome
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Rome (Italian: Roma [ˈroːma] (listen); Latin: Roma [ˈroːma]) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale). Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region. With 2,868,782 residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), it is also the country's most populated comune. It is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City (the smallest country in the world) is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.Rome's history spans 28 centuries. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans, and Sabines. Eventually, the city successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as the birthplace of Western civilization and by some as the first ever metropolis. It was first called The Eternal City (Latin: Urbs Aeterna; Italian: La Città Eterna) by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy. Rome is also called the Caput Mundi (Capital of the World). After the fall of the Western Empire, which marked the beginning of the Middle Ages, Rome slowly fell under the political control of the Papacy, which had settled in the city since the 1st century AD, until in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. Beginning with the Renaissance, almost all the popes since Nicholas V (1447–1455) pursued over four hundred years a coherent architectural and urban programme aimed at making the city the artistic and cultural centre of the world. In this way, Rome became first one of the major centres of the Italian Renaissance, and then the birthplace of both the Baroque style and Neoclassicism. Famous artists, painters, sculptors and architects made Rome the centre of their activity, creating masterpieces throughout the city. In 1871, Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, which, in 1946, became the Italian Republic.
Rome has the status of a global city. In 2016, Rome ranked as the 14th-most-visited city in the world, 3rd most visited in the European Union, and the most popular tourist attraction in Italy. Its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are among the world's most visited tourist destinations with both locations receiving millions of tourists a year, and the city hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics. Rome is the seat of several specialized agencies of the United Nations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The city hosts the headquarters of many international business companies, such as Eni, Enel, TIM, Leonardo S.p.A., and national and international banks such as Unicredit and BNL. Its business district, called EUR, is the base of many companies involved in the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and financial services. Rome is also an important fashion and design centre thanks to renowned international brands centered in the city. Rome's Cinecittà Studios have been the set of many Academy Award–winning movies.
The Value of Latin | Ryan Sellers | TEDxMemphis
Ryan Sellers discussion the modern importance of the Latin language despite being viewed as a dead language.
Ryan Sellers is a Latin teacher at Memphis University School. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association and as a Regional Vice-President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. He is the current Co-Chair of the CAMWS Latin Translation Contest and the former State Co-Chair of the Tennessee Junior Classical League. He has presented on a wide variety of pedagogical topics at conferences of organizations such as the American Classical League and the International Boys’ School Coalition, and he has published articles in the academic journals Classical World, Classical Outlook, and Teaching Classical Languages.
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Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man - Ethiopia Coptic Blessed Nation #1
Rights of Man have released, so I'm starting a new series as Ethiopia, trying to get the achievements Prester John and the new one, A Blessed Nation!
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Rights of Man and the new patch for EU4 is here so new series time! Ethiopia is a really fun country to play, as there are lots of really interesting Coptic religion changes, including a system of blessings!
Hope you enjoy! Got lots of really exciting Let's Plays going on as well.