Walk around Rome Italy Capitoline Hill Santa Maria in Trastevere Pantheon
00:00 Foro Romano Capitoline Hill
01:40 Campidoglio
04:50 Piazza D'Aracoeli
05:10 Via del Teatro di Marcello
07:35 Teatro Marcello
09:05 Via Montanara
11:00 Via della Tribuna di Campitelli
11:50 Via di S. Angelo in Pescheria
12:30 Portico d'Ottavia
12:55 Via del Portico d'Ottavia
16:55 Pons Fabricius
18:10 Via di Ponte Quattro capi
19:00 Ponte Cestio
22:10 Via della Lungaretta
22:35 Via dell'Arco De' Tolomei
24:40 Via dei Salumi
25:35 Via della Luce
26:40 Via Giulio Cesare Santini
27:45 Viale di Trastevere
30:15 Via della Lungaretta
33:35 Piazza di Santa Maria
34:00 Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere
35:40 Via della Paglia
36:25 Piazza di S. Egidio
37:05 Via della Scala
40:05 Via di Porta Settimiana
40:25 Via della Lungara
41:15 Via Corsini
44:40 Via della Lungara
47:40 Lungotevere Farnesina
53:15 Piazza Trilussa
53:35 Ponte Sisto
55:30 Via dei Pettinari
58:55 Chiesa di Santa Barbara dei Librai
59:00 Via dei Giubbonari
01:01:00 Piazza Benedetto Cairoli
01:02:40 Via Arenula
01:04:20 Largo di Torre Argentina
01:06:15 Teatro Argentina
01:06:45 Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
01:12:10 Via del Gesù
01:14:00 Via del Piè di Marmo
01:15:05 Piazza della Minerva
01:16:40 Pantheon
01:18:00 Piazza della Rotonda
01:21:00 Via del Pantheon
01:23:25 Via degli Uffici del Vicaro
01:24:50 Piazza di Monte Citorio
01:26:55 Piazza Colonna
San Benedetto in Alpe live video
This videoclip is taken on the new part of the village which is the starting point for hikes on the Acquacheta valley. The older part is clustered around the ancient Abbey of San Benedetto which have a well-conserved crypt. San Benedetto in Alpe is located in the province of Forli in Italy on the territory of the national park of the Foreste Casentinesi Monte Falterona e Campigna.
Pablo Bisquera.
Ascoli PIceno (Marche, Italy), Piazza del Popolo - Square of the People (manortiz)
The central historical part of the city is built in marble called travertino, a grey-hued stone extracted from the surrounding mountains. Its central Renaissance square, Piazza del Popolo (Square of the People) is considered one of the most beautiful in Italy. According to traditional accounts, Ascoli Piceno was home to more than two hundred towers in the Middle Ages: today some fifty can still be seen. (from Wiki)
« Ascoli Piceno è una tra le più belle piccole città d'Italia, e non ne vedo altra che le assomigli. André Gide la prediligeva... bella come alcune città della Francia del Sud, non tanto per questo o quel monumento, ma per il suo complesso, la qualità antologica, l'incanto che viene da nulla e da tutto. Bisogna avervi passeggiato, a cominciare dalla piazza del Popolo, la piazza italiana che insieme con quella di San Marco a Venezia dà più di un'impressione di sala, cinta da porticati, chiusa dalla stupenda abside di San Francesco; o costeggiando il Battistero del Duomo; o lungo le rive scoscese del Tronto; e per le strade strette, chiamate rue, dove i palazzi non si contano; e che si allargano in piazzette... Ascoli è città di torri... Si succedono molti stili, il romanico, il gotico, il rinascimentale, il barocco... con chiese dalle pareti di pietra, senza finestre; un travertino d'un grigio caldo, uniforme, senza intonaco... tutto ornato, lavorato, istoriato... e su ogni porta e finestra, vedi frutta, fogliami, cariatidi femminili, fiori, animali, stelle, o anche semplicemente proverbi e sentenze scolpite. »
(Guido Piovene, Viaggio in Italia, 1957)
« Non c'è altro posto in tutta Italia dove sia possibile percepire la piazza come luogo sociale e, nello stesso tempo, architettonico come la Piazza del Popolo ad Ascoli Piceno. Questa è - come si dice - il cuore della città... Se è bella stagione, approfittate dei bar con i tavolini all'aperto per godervi il vento fresco del tramonto, quando la piazza finisce in ombra, ma la luce ancora illumina i palazzetti rinascimentali, con il tipico portico sottostante, anzi li fa risaltare come in pieno giorno non avviene mai. Quando fa freddo, dalle finestre del bar per cogliere l'insieme rettangolare della piazza, la gente che si affretta e una parte dell'orizzonte naturale al di là della collina su cui è stata innalzata Ascoli. Godetevi le piazze di Ascoli, sono l'essenza della città di provincia, ma anche qualcosa di più, sono il nostro substrato ancestrale di convivenza civile, elemento fisico e culturale del paesaggio urbano, spazio e tempo insieme, cardini della relatività generale dell'Italia. »
(Mario Tozzi, Viaggio in Italia - 100+9 emozioni da provare almeno una volta, prima che finisca il mondo)
Places to see in ( Mantova - Italy ) Palazzo Te
Places to see in ( Mantova - Italy ) Palazzo Te
Palazzo del Te or Palazzo Te is a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy. It is a fine example of the mannerist style of architecture, and the acknowledged masterpiece of Giulio Romano. Although formed in Italian, the usual name in English of Palazzo del Te is not that now used by Italians. The official modern name, and by far the most common name in Italian, is Palazzo Te. The English name arises because Vasari calls it the Palazzo Del T, and English-speaking writers, especially art historians, still most often call it Palazzo Del Te.
Palazzo del Te was constructed 1524–34 for Federico II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as a palace of leisure. The site chosen was that of the family's stables at Isola Del Te, on the edge of the marshes just outside Mantua's city walls. The name comes from tejeto, the grove that once grew on what was then an islet in the marshlands around the core of the city. Giulio Romano, a pupil of Raphael, was commissioned to design the building. The shell of the palazzo, erected within eighteen months, is basically a square house containing a cloistered courtyard. A formal garden complemented the house, enclosed by colonnaded outbuildings ending in a semicircular colonnade known as the 'Esedra'.
Like the Villa Farnesina in Rome, the suburban location allowed for a mixing of both palace and villa architecture. The four exterior façades have flat pilasters against rusticated walls, the fenestration indicating that the piano nobile is the ground floor, with a secondary floor above. The East façade differs from the other three by having Palladian motifs on its pilaster and an open loggia at its centre rather than an arch to the courtyard. The facades are not as symmetrical as they appear, and the spans between the columns are irregular. The centre of the North and South facades are pierced by two-storey arches without portico or pediment, simply a covered way leading to the interior courtyard. Few windows overlook the inner courtyard (cortile); the colonnaded walls are decorated on all sides by deep niches and blind windows, and the intervening surfaces are spattered by 'spezzato' (broken and blemished plaster) giving life and depth to the surfaces.
Once the shell of the building was completed, for ten years a team of plasterers, carvers and fresco painters laboured, until barely a surface in any of the loggias or salons remained undecorated. Under Giulio Romano's direction, local decorative painters such as Benedetto Pagni and Rinaldo Mantovano worked extensively on the frescos. These frescoes remain today and are the most remarkable feature of the Palazzo. The subjects range from Olympian banquets in the Sala di Psiche and stylised horses in the Sala dei Cavalli to the most unusual of all — giants and grotesques wreaking havoc, fury and ruin around the walls of the Sala dei Giganti.
These magnificent rooms, once furnished to complement the ducal court of the Gonzaga family, saw many of the most illustrious figures of their era entertained such as the Emperor Charles V, who, when visiting in 1530, elevated his host Federico II of Gonzaga from Marquess to Duke of Mantua. One of the most evocative parts of the lost era of the palazzo is the Casino della Grotta, a small suite of intimate rooms arranged around a grotto and loggetta (covered balcony) where courtiers once bathed in the small cascade that splashed over the pebbles and shells encrusted in the floor and walls.
In July 1630, during the War of the Mantuan Succession (1628–31), Mantua and the palace were sacked over three days by an Imperial army of 36,000 Landsknecht mercenaries. The remaining populace fell victim to one of the worst plagues in history that the invaders had brought with them. The Palazzo was looted from top to bottom and remained an empty shell: nymphs, god, goddesses and giants remain on the walls of the empty echoing rooms. Part of the Palazzo today houses the Museo Civico del Palazzo Te, endowed by the publisher Arnoldo Mondadori. It contains a collection of Mesopotamian art.
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Rocche, Torri e Ponti in Romagna (n°1)
Questo è il primo di una serie di video documentari che vuole dar luce a frammenti di storia medioevale della Romagna: si tratta di un viaggio compiuto da creature delicate, le farfalle, tra ruderi, resti ed anche testimonianze ben conservate di rocche, torri e ponti, ovvero luoghi di vita e di morte che hanno segnato la storia dalla quale noi discendiamo.
Questo primo video ripercorre alcune tappe tra le colline faentine e quelle forlivesi, con l'unica eccezione del Ponte Alidosi, situato a Castel Del Rio, sulle colline imolesi.
Il viaggio parte con la rocca di Ceparano, della quale rimane il Mastio, oltre a qualche traccia della cortina muraria. Questa Rocca venne contesa tra i Manfredi di Faenza e i Guidi di Modigliana, ma nell'incursione del 1500, Cesare Borgia la conquistò e tre anni più tardi finì nelle mani dei Veneziani. Infine fu soggetta alla Santa Sede che la demolì nel 1577. Oggi resta appunto il rudere del Mastio, con la particolare forma a becco: questa particolare geometria, adottata anche nella rocca di Rontana,
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Palace of Saint George, Genoa, Liguria, Italy, Europe
Palazzo San Giorgio, Palazzo delle Compere or St George, is a historic building of the most important and popular of Genoa. Currently it houses the headquarters of the Port Authority of Genoa. The building, including in the district of Molo, consists of two distinct parts: an older part, a typical example of medieval civil architecture, with the prospect facing the porch of Sottoripa, and a renaissance, facing the sea, in which prospectus, overlooking via the Merchandise, the short street that connects Piazza Loading and Piazza Cavour, near the old port, opens the portal of the main entrance. Initially called the palace of the sea, because it directly overlooking the docks, with the sea that lapped at the foundation, was built and designed by Friar Oliverio, architect and monaco Cistercian, around the middle of the thirteenth century as the town hall; It became the seat of the customs and in the fifteenth century it passed to the Banco di San Giorgio, from which it took its name. Expanded in the sixteenth century, it was completely restored in the second half of the work of Alfredo d'Andrade after a period of decline; from 1903 it houses the offices of the Port of Genoa. The building is today in a double aspect to the porch of the Ripa the thirteenth century building, in red brick and stone base, and the sixteenth-wing reaching out to the harbor, with the painted plaster. The part to the east, facing the facades of Sottoripa, is medieval, dating from 1260, which today we see in its restructuring nineteenth century; gray stone promontory square on the ground floor and exposed brick on the upper floors, crowned by Ghibelline battlements, the base has a portico consisting of five pointed arches supported by four columns and a pillar at each end. The facade, lightened by three lights and four, is devoid of ornaments: There was a time a fresco, made in the late fifteenth century by Carlo Braccesco, said Carlo del Mantegna, depicting St. George and the dragon. Of this painting, still well preserved in the eighteenth century, there were still traces of the first nineteenth century restorations, as evidenced by several authors of the time. Through the central arch of the portico opens the entrance, which was one of the building until 1912, when the new entrance was opened on the sea. Above the portal is a mask with a figure of a lion, and two other small lion heads you see on the edges at the sides of the porch; these small sculptures, Gothic but with influences of ancient Greece, were from the palace representative of the Venetians in Constantinople, called the Pantocrator, that the Genoese had obtained by the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus for their help against the Empire Latin Eastern and decided in the Treaty of Nymphaeum. Next to the entrance there is the plaque celebrating the foundation of the building. Via della Merchandise overlooking the wing century, with its facade entirely covered with frescoes by Raimondo Sirotti that follow those made at the beginning of the twentieth century by Ludovico Pogliaghi, which in turn had rebuilt, reinterpreting them, the original of Tavarone. The painted decoration of the facade plays a marble cladding with rusticated ground floor and pilasters that divide the table into three sections. At the center of the facade, above the imposing marble portal access, is the figure polychrome depicting St. George on horseback slaying the dragon, recurring image in many portals of the buildings of the old town: the saint in the Middle Ages was in fact considered the symbol of the Republic. The subject was freely interpreted by Sirotti in 1990, having disappeared all traces of the original seventeenth century. On either side, from left to right, are painted six statues, bronze color, inside false niches, depicting some historical figures of the Republic: the chronicler Caffaro, the Prince Andrea Doria, the Doge Simone Boccanegra (according to some the painting would represent rather the founder of the palace, Guglielmo Boccanegra), the leader crusader William Embriaco said hammer head, the navigator Christopher Columbus and finally admiral Benedetto Zaccaria. Complete the decoration figures of Janus and Neptune, also in faux bronze, and the emblem of the Conservative of the Sea, the body entrusted with the government of the port at the time of the Republic of Genoa. The facade culminates with the clock tower. From the entrance located in the Merchandise, in the statement to the sea, through a wide staircase leads to the sixteenth-century hall Compere, on the first floor; the living room is surrounded by niches in the walls with statues of the benefactors of the Tour.
Oropa - Basilica Antica - Cappella del SS Sacramento - By Reginamundi
Santuario di Oropa - Basilica Antica:
La cappella del SS Sacramento, come un prezioso scrigno ornato di bellissimi altorilievi in legno che rappresentano eventi della vita della Beatissima Vergine Maria, è situata dietro il Saccello,
La posizione particolarmente raccolta favorisce la preghiera silenziosa di chi desidera sostare in intimo colloquio con il Signore, senza essere disturbati dal viavai di pellegrini che, senza tregua, vengono ai piedi della Regina montis Orope