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Easter Vigil
Saint Peter Basilica, Vatican

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Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck visting the Colosseum in 1951.

They were filming Quo Vadis on the Cinecitta Studios.

“the vanguard of M-G-M studio executives, specialists and technicians journeyed to Rome, Italy, to look over the ground and survey the available facilities for making Quo Vadis. For the most elaborate motion picture ever made it was necessary that the largest possible film-making space be obtained. Fortunately the huge Cinecitta Studios, eight miles from downtown Rome, were available and a lease for their use was consummated. These studios comprise the largest motion picture plant in Europe, with 148 acres and nine big sound stages. Since they were built in 1936 they had been used variously for film production, a factory for producing war material, a barracks for German soldiers, and later as a camp for 30,000 displaced persons”

copyright: https://roberttayloractor.blog/2013/08/09/the-making-of-quo-vadis/

Arthur Conan Doyle at the Colosseum in 1907

copyright: Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

Colosseum, 1944

The British Army in Italy 1944
“An Italian woman inspects the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie and Pipe Major William Boyd in the Colosseum of Rome”, 6 June 1944.

copyright: Imperial War Museum

Sunset on Via del Tritone, Rome

copyright Ganci Rocco

Happy women's day!

Greek hellenistic warrior bronze statue from the 2nd century BC holding a bouquet of flowers for all the women in the world!

Mimosa flower is the symbol of Italian Woman’s Day.

The statue can be seen here in Rome at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

image copyright: Silvia V***a

Annum novum faustum felicem vobis!
We would like to wish you all a happy, prosperous and inspiring New Year!

In the picture, an ancient Roman New Year oil lamp with Victory surrounded by New Years gifts (coins, dates, figs) that holds a palm-branch (symbol
of sucess) in one hand and a shield in the other.

The shield bears the New Year’s wishes for happiness inscripion: Annum novum faustum felicem vobis!

The coin represented on the right part of the oil lamp has on it the two-faced Roman deity Janus, symbolically looking back on the old year and forward to the new year. He can see the future and the past at the same time! Janus is the god of beginnings, doorways, gateways, passages and the first month of the year is named after him: January.

domes of Rome: Chiesa Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza

copyright David Napolitano