Rome by Insiders

14/02/2020

The colonnades of St.Peter’s

@ Piazza San Pietro - Vaticano, Roma, Italia

10/02/2020

🌸🌼INFIORATA DI GENZANO🌼🌸

The Flower Festival in Genzano is an event that takes place in the Genzano section of Rome, characterized by the carpet of flowers set up in the path of the religious procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi.

The tradition was born in Rome in the first half of the seventeenth century and had been adopted in the localities of the Alban Hills probably due to the close ties of this territory with Gian Lorenzo Bernini , the main architect of Baroque celebrations. It is believed, in fact, that the tradition of creating paintings by means of flowers was born in the Vatican basilica by Benedetto Drei , head of the Florerian Vatican, and of his son Pietro, who had used "leafless flowers, minced to emulate mosaics" June 29, 1625, feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the patrons of Rome.

@ Genzano di Roma

10/02/2020

Basilica of St Andrea della Valle

Built between 1591 and 1596, the church was a collective effort by architects Francesco Grimaldi and Giacomo della Porta. The dome, which is Rome's 4th largest, was designed by Maderno while the lantern was overseen by Borromini. The famous facade was added by Carlo Rainaldi.

The vault and dome are fantastically frescoed, with the cupola displaying the Glory of Paradise by Lanfranco. The last chapel on the left is the Barberini Chapel, which was Puccini's backdrop for the first act of his famous opera, Tosca.

@ Sant'Andrea della Valle

08/02/2020

@ Gallura

06/02/2020

Clivus Argentarius

This street formed the only immediate connection between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius before the imperial fora were built. It left the Forum between the Curia and the Carcer, and ran along the slope of the Capitoline Hill.

06/02/2020

Vatican Rail Gateway

The severe gateway of the Vatican State Railway appears unexpected at the end of a narrow street
in a secluded corner of central Rome where nobody ever goes.
An out-of-time location to come across the shortest international railway in the whole world.

05/02/2020

04/02/2020