Sunday, May 28, 2006

Spain square in Rome

In the photo you can see the stairs of Trinity of the Mounts, built by Specchi and F. De Sanctis (1721-1725), with a bequest of French Ambassador S. Gouffier. On the right there is the red cottage where the English poet G. Keats died in the 1821, in this cottage is located a small museum dedicated to Keats and Shelley. To the center, you can see the Sallustian obelisk (coming from the Sallustian gardens, near Salaria door), imperial roman imitation of Egyptian obelisks of Seti and Ramesse, raised here in 1789 by the Pope Sixtus V. On the top of the stairs there is Trinity of the Mounts church, one of the French churches of Rome, begun in 1495 from Carl VIII, consecrated in the 1585 from Sixtus V, restored, after the breakdowns of the Napoleonic occupation, from F. Mazois, at expenses of Louis XVIII.

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