#basilica santa maggiore

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Anton Hallmann, Interior View of the Basilica Santa Maggiore, Rome, 1833, watercolor.

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Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy,

Juan83 Photography

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Santa Maria Maggiore

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Abside, Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore, Roma, 2009

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Santa Maria Maggiore, one of Rome’s grand basilicas.

Feb. 19, 2024

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Ispica: Un gioiello barocco nel cuore della Sicilia

Immersa nellaVal di Noto, in Sicilia, sorge Ispica, una città ricca di storia, arte e tradizioni. Il suo centro storico, un vero e proprio gioiello barocco, è stato dichiarato Patrimonio dell’Umanità dall’UNESCO, incantando visitatori da tutto il mondo. Un tuffo nel passato Le origini di Ispica si perdono nella notte dei tempi, con testimonianze che risalgono all’età del Bronzo. Nel corso dei…

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Impressionisti e la Parigi fin de siècle

  Gli impressionisti si distinsero nel ritrarre, con pennellate veloci, soggetti en plein air e scene di vita quotidiana con persone comuni CITTÀ METROPOLITANA DI NAPOLI – Nella Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore alla Pietrasanta – Lapis Museum in piazzetta Pietrasanta venerdì 22 novembre alle ore 11 si svolgerà la conferenza stampa di presentazione della mostra Impressionisti e la Parigi fin de…

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The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (1837) by Rudolf von Alt

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Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome (by mkvale).

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Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo

April 2, 2024

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St. Mary Major Street 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🛵🚗

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Turisti ai piedi della Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti, Roma, fredda giornata invernale 2019.

A week ago I posted a photo of a broad staircase leading to the apse of Santa Maria Maggiore, a papal basilica, and that elicited an interesting comment.

"thecrankyprofessor:

One of the worst things about Rome is that there are so few places to sit in public. These stairs were for years (centuries) the best place to sit in the winter sun in Rome. Then Bernard Cardinal Law (who has many other sins on his shoulders but this one affects me personally), archpriest of the Basilica Papale, raised money from American donors to put up a fence around the bottom and for the broad stairs in front, too."

That comment rings true, for I realize that on visits to Rome there were few places to sit for a few moments in order to reconnoiter, to load film in the era before digital cameras, to take a long look at one monument or another, or just to rest. In other capitals and cities where I have walked extensively benches can be taken for granted. As I get older, those become ever more attractive! One solution in Rome is to include visits to the interior of churches where one can sit in a pew and contemplate. That works because many Roman churches allow free interior access and are open most daylight hours, not always true in other cities. Another ploy is to stop for an espresso or a gelato, but more than a few places serving those treats do not have seating.

The photo above is the exception that proves the rule, for there is a bench at the fountain in the Piazza di Spagna, perhaps because the tourist crush has discouraged sitting on the "Spanish Steps." On the day the photo was taken the Polizia were actively forcing sitters to get up off the steps, and that was on a day out of tourist season!

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Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas opens the holy door of the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on New Year's Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, one of the events starting the Jubilee of 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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