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Santa Maria in Cosmedin- Rome, Italy - VirtualTourist.com
In 1717, Francesco Carlo Bizzaccheri designed a fountain with the basin in the form of an eight-pointed star to honour Pope Clemente XI Albani. This symbol is repeated again a few times on different parts of the fountain: the step on which the basin rests is of the same shape, the rocks inside the b...
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Santa Maria in Cosmedin - Rome Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
According to a popular belief it was said that any one putting his hand in this mouth and swearing falsely, could not withdraw it. You find this mouth into the atrium of St. Mary's in Cosmedin church. The closest metro stop to this church ...
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Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, Italy : Reviews of Santa Maria in Cosmedin - Yahoo! Travel
This basilica was constructed on the ancient site of a grocery market. Its famous facade consists of a portico with arches, inside which is a stone mask known a...
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Latest reviews of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, Italy
, so we did. And there, we found ourselves outside a small church (Santa Maria in Cosmedin), so we went in to check it out. Turned out to be a Melkite Church (ie, for Lebanese Catholic types... eg my family) complete with relics. And by "relics" I mean the skull and several other rotted bo...
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Santa Maria in Cosmedin. Rome photo - maximzar photos at pbase.com
This plain-looking church was built on the site of ancient Rome's food market in the 6th century. It has a Romanesque bell-tower and portico that were added in the 12th century. The Baroque facade was removed in the 19th century to restore the church to its original form. Of particular interest is t...
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Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome (Photo Archive)
Inside the church is divided in three naves by 18 ancient and medieval colunms of varying designs and sizes. Above the altar is a canopy by Deodato di Cosma the Young from 1294. The floor is from the 8th century, and further decorated by the Cosmas in the 13th century. In the sacristy there is a mos...
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It was built in the 6th century near the temples of Hercules and Ceres. The name derives from the fact that the church had been turned over the Greeks. The district between the Aventine and the Tiber was inhabited by Greeks. On the left side of the portico is a marble mask called Bocca della Verità ...
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