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Positano history

Posted on 23 October 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Positano history, Legend of Positano, Positano Hotels, “Spring in Positano”, “Positano Excursions” The legend tells that Positano was founded by Poseidon, Neptun, the god of the sea, for a nymph he loved, Pasitea. Phoenixes and Greeks, during their journeys, landed in this territory, maybe inhabited at that period by Piceni and Oscans. Roman [...]

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Bologna

Posted on 23 October 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Bologna Hotels, Bologna history, Culture, Sports, Cuisine, University, The construction of towers, The number of two, The two towers, Bologna Accommodation Bologna (Italian pronunciation: [boˈloɲːa], from the Latin Bononia, Bulåggna IPA: [buˈlʌɲːa] in Bolognese dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley (Pianura Padana in Italian) of northern Italy. The [...]

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Rome, Piazza di Spagna

Posted on 25 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Rome Hotel, Trinità dei Monti , Fontana della Barcaccia, Convent Piazza di Spagna In the Piazza at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia (“Fountain of the Old Boat”), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is [...]

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Rome, Fontana di Trevi

Posted on 25 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Rome Hotels Trevi Fountain The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city. Pre-1629 history of the aqueduct and the fountain site The fountain at the junction of [...]

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Rome, Pantheon

Posted on 25 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Rome Hotels, Piazza della Rotunda Pantheon is a building in Rome, originally built by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt in the early 2nd century AD. A near-contemporary writer, Cassius Dio, speculates that the name comes from the statues of many gods placed around the [...]

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Florence, Piazza della Santissima Annunziata

Posted on 24 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Florence Hotels, Piazza SS. Annunziata, The Ospedale degli Innocenti The Basilica della Santissima Annunziata (Basilica of the Most Holy Annunciation) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Florence and the mother church of the Servite order. It is located at the northeastern side of the Piazza Santissima Annunziata. History of the Church and [...]

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Florence, Duomo church

Posted on 24 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Florence Hotels, Dome, Piazza del Duomo The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is [...]

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Florence, Piazza Santa Maria Novella

Posted on 23 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Florence Hotels, Piazza Santa Maria Novella Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated just across the main railway station which shares its name. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city’s principal Dominican church. The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of [...]

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Florence, Piazza della Repubblica

Posted on 23 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Articles IIndex: Florence Hotels, Fountain of Naiads Piazza della Repubblica is a city square in Florence, Italy. It is on the site, first of the city’s forum and then of the city’s old ghetto, which was swept away during the city improvement works or Risanamento initiated during the brief period when Florence was [...]

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Florence, Piazza della Signoria – The Uffizi Gallery

Posted on 23 September 2009 by Janemaripose

Articles Index: Florence Hotels, Piazza della Signoria – The Uffizi Gallery Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio. It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic [...]

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