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View of the Kamerlengo Fortress in Trogir, Croatia (@Croatia_hr), which is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site > bit.ly/1pRtJb2
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#ReliefWednesday – Marble relief from ancient Praeneste (modern Palestrina, Italy), traditionally interpreted as depicting the posthumous Parthian triumph of Trajan in AD 118.
Trajan appears in a four-horse chariot (quadriga), wearing triumphal dress and holding a sceptre. A smaller attendant stands behind him, supporting a ceremonial crown above his head, while lictors carrying fasces accompany the procession. The chariot is decorated with a winged Victory.
Following Trajan’s death in AD 117, the Senate offered Hadrian a triumph to celebrate his predecessor’s victories in the East. Hadrian declined the honour for himself and instead arranged for Trajan’s effigy to be carried in a triumphal chariot.
Discovered in 1967, the relief is believed to have formed part of the funerary monument of Quintus Fabius Postuminus, a distinguished senator who served as urban prefect under Trajan.
📍 Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Palestrina, Italy (inv. 6520).
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Vicus Caprarius, la Città dell’Acqua
A pochi passi dalla Fontana di Trevi, nove metri sotto le strade di Roma, si nasconde un mondo sotterraneo dove l’acqua e la storia si intrecciano.
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#AncientSiteSunday – Letoon was the principal religious sanctuary of ancient Lycia, situated near Xanthos in southwestern Turkey. Dedicated to the goddess Leto and her children, Artemis and Apollo, it served as the common sacred centre of the Lycian cities and later became closely associated with the Lycian League.
The sanctuary developed around a sacred spring and preserves the remains of three temples, a Hellenistic theatre, colonnaded porticoes and a monumental nymphaeum associated with Hadrian. The latter featured a semicircular portico and a chamber dedicated to the imperial cult, which once housed a statue of Hadrian.
Together with Xanthos, Letoon has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.
📸 Explore the ruins and photographs: followinghadrianphotography.…
ALT General view of the sanctuary. The temples were arranged side by side within the sacred precinct, overlooking the sanctuary’s sacred waters. The sanctuary was built around a sacred spring and was dedicated to Leto and her children, Artemis and Apollo. The temple of Apollo is in the foreground, the temple of Artemis is in the middle, and the temple of Leto is in the background.
ALT The Hellenistic theatre was built into the slope of Tümtüm Tepe during the 2nd century BC. It underwent a major Roman-era reconstruction in the 2nd century AD, likely triggered by a regional earthquake around AD 141.
ALT The remains of the western portico, built during the Hellenistic period, were modified under Roman rule to provide a sheltered space for religious gatherings and the display of statues and honorary monuments.
ALT The Temple of Leto stood on a stepped platform and was surrounded by thirty columns, of which three partially reconstructed shafts remain standing. The foundations are now partly surrounded by water from the sanctuary’s sacred springs.
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Un año para que abra en Londres la mayor exposición de Piero della Francesca nunca celebrada.
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Happy November 1st!
📷 Panel from a mosaic depicting the seasons and months. November is shown as a veiled goddess (probably Isis), seated on a centaur drawing a bow (Sagittarius, the zodiac sign that begins in November). National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid.
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The entrance hall and dome to the "Technical Administration Building of Hoechst AG" is part of a German expressionist office building in Frankfurt from 1924 designed by German architect Peter Behrens.
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Torre de la Calahorra (Córdoba, Andalucía), se yergue majestuosa junto a la orilla izquierda del río Guadalquivir. Su origen es islámico aunque es modificada en el S. XIV durante el reinado de Enrique II de Trastámara.
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#BuenosDias #FelizSabado – at Cordova, Spain
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🇫🇷 Ce week-end, venez profiter des belles couleurs de l’automne au domaine de Trianon 🎃🍂
🌍 This weekend, come and enjoy the beautiful autumn colours at the Trianon estate 🎃🍂
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Here are two extremes of style in German libraries ~ the modern minimalist Stuttgart City Library / and the 18th century rococo Wiblingen Library at Ulm. Do you have a preference? bookjelly.com/best-libraries…
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🎃 Descend into the atmospheric catacombs of Sir John Soane’s Museum!
Home to 1st- and 2nd-century Roman cinerary urns, the space reveals Sir John Soane’s fascination with death, funerary art and architecture. A true underworld experience! 🕯️
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🎬 A Venezia anche i campi diventano set cinematografici!
Il Campo San Barnaba è stato protagonista di alcune celebri pellicole internazionali.
🎥 In “Tempo d’estate” (1955), Katharine Hepburn finì nel rio durante una scena girata proprio qui.
🪔 E nel “Indiana Jones e l’ultima crociata” (1989), la Chiesa di San Barnaba diventa la facciata di una biblioteca immaginaria. Memorabile la scena in cui Harrison Ford, nei panni di Indiana Jones, emerge da un tombino dopo la fuga nei sotterranei!
Un angolo di Venezia dove storia, cinema e fantasia si incontrano. 🎬
#VeneziaSerenissima ❤️🦁
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Les célèbres champs violets de l'abbaye de Sénanque, en Provence, ne sont pas vraiment de la lavande. C'est surtout du lavandin, cultivé par des moines.
Six d'entre eux vivent encore derrière ces murs du XIIe siècle.
L'abbaye se cache dans un vallon près de Gordes, dans le Vaucluse.
Elle est fondée en 1148 par des moines cisterciens venus de l'abbaye de Mazan, en Ardèche.
Les cisterciens vivent dans le silence, entre la prière et le travail des mains.
Leur église, leur cloître et leur dortoir sont arrivés jusqu'à nous presque sans retouche.
En 1544, pendant les guerres de Religion, les Vaudois, des chrétiens ralliés aux protestants, incendient une partie de l'abbaye.
À la Révolution, en 1791, elle est saisie et vendue par l'État. Son acheteur la sauve de la démolition.
En 1857, l'abbé de Lérins, un monastère sur une île au large de Cannes, la rachète. Les moines reviennent.
Ils repartent, reviennent encore. Depuis 1988, une petite communauté y vit de nouveau.
Ils prient, font du miel et cultivent le lavandin.
Huit siècles après sa fondation, la carte postale de la Provence est d'abord un champ cultivé par des moines.
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#HadrianFactTuesday - Did you know that Hadrian was portrayed in eight distinct official portrait types during his reign?
1. Stazione Termini
2. Chiaramonti 392
3. Rollockenfrisur
4. Tarragona
5. Baiae
6. Imperatori 32
7. Vaticano Busti 283
8. Delta Omicron
Hadrian was particularly concerned about his image. During his reign, he commissioned as many as eight official portraits of himself, more than Augustus, who had only five, and significantly more than his successor, Antoninus Pius, who authorised only two effigies. To date, approximately 160 sculpted portraits of Hadrian have been discovered, spread over the time and regions of his reign.
Max Wegner, a German classical archaeologist, established the typology of Hadrian’s portraiture in 1956. He identified six distinctive portrait types that represent the emperor, each named after the findspot or the location of the best-preserved example. Klaus Fittschen later added a seventh type in 1984. During the last fifty years, an intense scholarly debate has arisen over whether an eighth portrait type of Hadrian should be added, the ‘Delta Omicron’ type (also known as ‘Renatus’), showing the Emperor in his late teens or early twenties.
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ALT 1. Stazione Termini 2. Chiaramonti 392 3. Rollockenfrisur 4. Tarragona
ALT 5. Baiae 6. Imperatori 32 7. Vaticano Busti 283 8. Delta Omicron
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Nel Settecento San Simeon Piccolo fu completamente ricostruita, con un'architettura che richiama il Pantheon di Roma. Sotto la chiesa si estende una vasta cripta cimiteriale (non visitabile).
Per visitare la chiesa:
✉️ venezia@fssp.it
📞 +39 348 935 3936
venezia.fssp.it/chiesa/
ALT ph. @marcello_vaccari via IG
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Arena in Pula
The Arena in Pula, Croatia is the only remaining Roman amphitheatre to have four side towers and with all three Roman architectural orders entirely preserved. It was constructed in 27 BC – 68 AD and is among the world's six largest surviving Roman arenas
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#RomanSiteSaturday - The monumental eastern entrance to Roman Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv), Bulgaria. A broad paved street led from the gate into the city, lined with Corinthian colonnades and shops. The gate incorporated an earlier honorary arch from Hadrian's reign, likely erected to mark the emperor's visit to the city.
When the lower city was fortified under Marcus Aurelius (reign 161-180 CE), the arch was incorporated into the new defences. In the 4th century AD, a monumental eastern gate was built on the same site, opening onto the road to Byzantium.
Read more in my new article for @whencyclopedia: worldhistory.org/article/300…
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El antiguo monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Rioseco (Burgos), un enclave hace no mucho condenado a la ruina y la desaparición pero que, gracias a la admirable labor de un grupo de voluntarios, ha vuelto a la vida para convertirse en un símbolo de Las Merindades
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Funziona senza elettricità, la Saltburn Cliff Tramway é la più antica funicolare a contrappeso d'acqua nel Regno Unito, inaugurata il 28 giugno 1884.
Il sistema è semplice e ingegnoso: Sotto il pavimento di ogni vagone c'è un grande serbatoio vuoto.
I due vagoni sono collegati tra loro da un lunghissimo e robusto cavo d'acciaio.
Quando il vagone si trova nella stazione in alto, viene riempito con l'acqua, una volta appesantito il vagone inizia a scendere lungo il pendio per forza di gravità.
Scendendo, tira il cavo d'acciaio e trascina verso l'alto il vagone che sta in basso che è leggero perché all'arrivo il serbatoio viene svuotato.
L'unico elemento che richiede l'elettricità è una pompa che riprende l'acqua scaricata in spiaggia e la porta fino in cima, pronta per il viaggio successivo.
Le cabine passeggeri sono rivestite e rifinite in legno pregiato, con vetrate colorate in stile vittoriano.
La funicolare è a Saltburn-by-the-Sea, una storica cittadina balneare nella contea del North Yorkshire, nel nord-est dell'Inghilterra. – at Reggio Emilia, Emilia Romagna
