d even planned an ingenious access and rapid evacuation system. The entrances numbered XXIII to LIV are still visible today. Visit the Colosseum in Rome The Colosseum is today one of the major tourist attractions in Rome. Thousands of tourists flock there every year. To avoid waiting in line, it i ...
cient times. Already at that time, the middle of February was associated with love through festivals celebrating Wedding (in Greece) or fertility (in Rome). In the Roman calendar, the day of February 15 was the Lupercales, that is, the feast of Lupercus, the god of fertility. The priests of Lu ...
ame Arelate, was a metropolis of Roman Gaul. It truly deserves its "City of Art and History" label as it has the most Roman remains of any city... after Rome, of course! Its rich heritage makes it one of the most visited locations in Provence. Among its many Roman and Romanesque monuments listed as ...
ande Halle de la Villette into a fantastic playground. This large-scale exhibition, which was realized in collaboration with the Balloon Museum of Rome, features inflatable art or inflatable art on a surface of more than 5000 m2. This joyful, colorful and monumental art form pushes the boundar ...
ntation of Jesus in the temple and the purification of the Virgin. It is also said that this same Pope had Crepes distributed to pilgrims arriving in Rome. In churches, torches are replaced with blessed candles whose glow keeps away the Evil One and reminds us that Christ is the light of the worl ...
ival was organized in the Spring in honor of the goddess Rhea, the mother of Zeus, also nicknamed the "Great Mother" or the "Mother of the gods". In Rome, a religious festival celebrated matrons (married women and mothers) on March 1st, during the Matronalia. Choose a gift carefully! Even if some ...
d bring him a monetary gift. Note: The word "étrennes" is believed to originate from the name of the goddess Strenia or Strena. In the early days of Rome, in the 8th century BC, green branches from a wood sacred to this goddess were offered to magistrates as a good omen at the start of the new yea ...
edict, advocating prayer, work, and reading. Its abbey church was the largest in all of Western Christendom before the construction of St. Peter's in Rome. After reaching its peak in the 12th century, the abbey began a long decline, facing the rise of the Cistercian order. Unfortunately, at the ti ...
he Northern Hemisphere. These meteor showers also have another more poetic name: The Tears of Saint Lawrence. Indeed, the feast of Saint Lawrence of Rome is set on August 10th, approximately when this phenomenon can be observed with maximum intensity. More than 100 meteors per hour on average are o ...
Milan Capital of Lombardy and economic capital of Italy. Milan is often criticized for being a large metropolis, quite different from cities such as Rome, Palermo or Florence. However, the city is full of assets and charm. European capital of fashion, city of gastronomy etc. It will take you more ...
can platform HBO in 2019. But it was not put online on arte.tv until the summer of 2021. The Foodie Love series, which was shot between Barcelona, Rome and Occitania, reminds us of the pre-Covid world with its packed restaurants, impulsive travel and hedonism. The secondary characters bring a ...
asure was actually filmed in several European and Middle Eastern countries to provide a wide variety of scenery. Some of the filming took place in Rome and Morocco, and crews traveled from Egypt to Canada, Germany, France and Italy. With these settings and well executed action scenes, this nov ...
ned a king who has traveled the world and returns to Nice to present us with the treasures of humanity, from the Indian Taj Mahal to the Colosseum of Rome! 2- The floats honor the world heritage Parading in the wake of the King of World Treasures, the floats of the Nice Carnival 2023 will honor ...
no fewer than 178 works from its collections to 34 partner museums in 13 regions. Some works will also travel overseas or be loaned to the Villa Medici in Rome. In mainland France, Impressionist works will be featured in provincial museums, from Tourcoing to Nice and from Le Havre to Bordeaux. The ...
the city developed under the influence of these new settlers. Over the next five centuries, the city was endowed with many public monuments modeled on Rome: a forum, a theater, an amphitheater, and a circus. Today, one of the masterpieces of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique is a presumed bus ...
ts founder Joseph-Dominique d’Inguimbert. Born in Carpentras in 1683, Joseph-Dominique d’Inguimbert pursued religious studies in Aix, Paris, and then Rome where he stayed for twenty-six years before returning to his hometown. At that time, Carpentras was the capital of Comtat Venaissin, which r ...
, as it only appeared in 2004 during the closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympic Games. When the first official Paralympic Games were organized in Rome in 1960, this event had neither a visual identity nor a logo. It was not until 1988 that the International Paralympic Committee or IPC adopted an ...
