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Exploring the Roman water network - Part 2 Parco degli Acquedotti Aqueducts - Water pipes in Eternal Rome Rome cherishes its cultural heritage. Three of the 11 aqueducts – the oldest dating from the 4th century BC – have been restored and are still in operation, but now only supplying the large fountain complexes . The modern water supply provided by ACEA ( Azienda Comunale Energia e Ambiente ) has been delivered through modern pipe networks since the early 20th century,

Exploring the Roman water network - Part 1 La Fontana delle Naiadi (Nymphenbrunnen) a Piazza della Repubblica Rome's life-giver Rome and water – an eternal alliance since ancient times. Water bubbles everywhere. Like a vast network of veins and arteries, water floods the city. No district, no suburb, no avenue, no street, no alley, no path, no corner, no square, no park, no elegant private residence, no public building without an easily accessible water source: monumental fo

Through the Porta Santa to heavenly pleasure The Papal Headquarters I'm saving it for last. For Roman Christmas Eve. La Vigilia di Natale is just the eve of Christmas in the local language, nothing particularly holy about it. The last-minute Christmas shopping business is booming. Just look at all the things Romans bring home on Christmas Eve! Cyclamen, for example, to liven up balconies and terraces that have become desolate in winter. Mistletoe sprigs for house or apartme

Stage 2: Pilgrimage on both sides of Rome's ancient city walls Via Appia Antica The Holy Year 2025 is still underway. I'm joining the pilgrimage. Three more churches are on my route, papal basilicas, but without the Porta Santa like the three large churches on my first stage and San Pietro on my third stage. Why seven pilgrimage churches? Initially, in the first Holy Year of 1300, only St. Peter's and St. Paul's, the basilicas of the two apostles, were mandatory for peniten

Stage 1: Through three Holy Doors to a new spirit Santa Maria Maggiore Ende November 2025 Time for a pilgrimage December morning. Saturday. Pure sunshine. Winter warmth. Ideal weather for pilgrimage. Roads still empty. Tank already full. Just in case. Cheerfulme, the "Pilgrim of Hope." One of the peregrinantes in spem, as the motto of the Holy Year goes. The Holy Year 2025 is drawing to a close in Rome. I want to make my pilgrimage in good time, visiting the seven pilgrimage

His artistic range between "rivoluzione e tradizione" in the Palazzo Cipolla Roma Dalí, the Surrealist That's how I've known him since my visits in the 1990s to the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida , which has one of the most extensive collections outside of Europe, and to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Dalí Museum St. Petersburg, FL An artist situated between Picasso's Cubism and De Chirico's and Magritte's Surrealism. That's what I thought for a long time. Portr