Sofia Manmana - Amazing Roma Tours

29/07/2026

Private tour through the treasures of the Vatican... with an Amazing touch❣️

28/07/2026

An Amazing journey through time with an Amazing semiprivate group

16/07/2026

13/06/2025

Have you ever wondered what “mystical ecstasy” is really all about?

Today I'll take you to see a great artwork that combines Baroque aesthetics and spiritual mysteries: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa... which also features in the film “Angels and Demons”!

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09/06/2025

🌲 Do you know why this is called the “Pinecone Courtyard” (Cortile della Pigna)?

In the heart of the Vatican Museums there is a gigantic bronze pinecone, 4 meters high and over 2 meters in diameter!

📜 This extraordinary sculpture was unearthed in the early Middle Ages near the Pantheon, and it still gives its name to this district of Rome (Pigna). It dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD and it still bears the signature of Publius Cincius Savius, the sculptor who made it.

In ancient Rome the pinecone was symbolically associated with the concepts of fertility, productivity and rebirth after physical death.🌱

According to the scholars it was originally made to decorate the Baths of Agrippa, or a fountain in the nearby Temple of Isis, and jets of water would have spurted out of it! 💧

📍 Over the centuries it was relocated several times until finally, in 1608, it was transported from the ancient portico of St. Peter's Basilica and given its present home in this courtyard designed and built by the great architect Bramante.

📖 In his “Divine Comedy” Dante compares this bronze pinecone to the face of a giant in Hell. Perhaps the great medieval poet saw it in person during the Jubilee of 1300!

✨ As you will have realized by now, this strange ancient object is more than just a surreal pop-art sculpture, made by modern artists like Salvador Dali or Claes Oldenburg!

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21/04/2025

Today is April the 21st, the legendary birthday of the Eternal City, which has reached the venerable age of 2,777!

To celebrate this day we feel we have to start with the animal that represents Rome more than any other: the she-wolf 🐺

📜 Her story is a blend of myth and symbolism.

Rhea Silvia, a vestal virgin, was seduced by the god Mars. When her usurping uncle, king Amulius, found out that she had given birth to the twins Romulus and Remus, he ordered that they be killed 😱... so they were cast adrift in a basket on the River Tiber.

A she-wolf (an animal sacred to Mars), who had lost her own cubs, found them by the river bank and nursed them. 🐺

Then the shepherd Faustulus took them and raised them together with his wife.

Spoiler: one of these boys would go on to found the city of Rome! 👑

🗿 A bronze statue of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf can be seen in the Capitoline Museums, in the room that takes its name from her.

The wolf is probably very ancient, but the figures of the twins that we can see now were made at a later date, in the 15th century!

📍Fun fact: a bronze copy of this statue stands on a column to the left of Palazzo Senatorio, at the top of the Capitoline Hill!

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20/04/2025

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19/03/2025

🌊 Do you know what these engraved marks are?

They might look like random marks carved into stones and walls, but in fact they had a very specific meaning!

Before the construction of the high stone embankments of the Tiber, completed in 1875, there were many devastating floods inside Rome that reached various heights.

As a record of these events, the Romans put what they called manine (little hands) on these stone signs, to indicate the levels reached by the floodwaters.

📍 I am at the church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, where the Tiber reached a height of 20 meters in 1598! It was so devastating that Pope Clement VIII (yes, the same one who had poor Beatrice Cenci beheaded the following year) officially cursed the intrusive river waters! 😱

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Now, when you walk past these strange signs engraved in stone, you will know that they are the enduring evidence of a time when the centre of Rome was deep underwater!✨