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...This year, the Presepe Vivente di Roma will be at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on December 16....
...17th-century palazzo on the Via Ripetta — the western border of the triangle that makes up Rome’s famous Tridente precinct of shops, cafés and street life — was once a convent overseen by the Sisters of Santa...
...Maria della Steccata in Parma....
...“It’s one of the only Spanish cities that didn’t see a fall in median prices during the pandemic,” says Miguel Ángel Loubet, an analyst whose Microanálisis Inmobiliario blog cites price rises of 5.8 per...
...Opposite stands the great basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, built in 639, when the Rialto was still a mud bank....
...Her sister and white-clad counterpart is Santa Muerte (Lorenza Izzo), the angel of death, who used to care for humanity but now, frankly, couldn’t give a crap....
...From £1,600; west-contemporary.com Uno Scatto per UdineEstablished by the Milan-based children’s casting agency B Talent Scout, Uno Scatto per Udine (“A Snap for Udine”) is raising funds for the Santa Maria...
...If you’re in Santa Monica, Elephante is always fun. It’s a very hip new restaurant and it’s indoor-outdoor, so you have the views and the breeze when they open it all up....
...Maria della Spina, Pisa” — sensitive to structure, texture, every chip and stain of weather and history....
...A provincial artist such as Piero must have been fascinated by the solid, uncompromising figures and spatial depth of freschi by Masaccio, for example, in the Brancacci Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria...
...I stayed a night in Santa Maria, which still has its vast plaza, a shady centrepiece whose planting almost constitutes a small forest, complete with its own troop of howler monkeys....
...The books on my bedside table include Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet; Jennifer Homans’s Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet; and Dancers...
...Puerto Escondido 6, 11500 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz; aponiente.com Solana Situated among rolling hills near Bilbao, Solana started as a typical Spanish tavern....
...His wonderfully weathered marble was made for the church of Santa Maria della Spina in Pisa; it is among several sculptures here whose visit to Lens has been possible because they have, within the last decade...
...Maria della Salute, the Campanile and San Giorgio Maggiore”, for example....
...Maria del Popolo....
...Also in Peru, Southern Copper’s Tia Maria project was scrapped after the government ruled it “unacceptable” following protests....
...So, too, had the remaining stone columns of the medieval church of Santa Maria della Scala, on whose foundations the theatre was built in the late 18th century, and from which it took its name....
...The show’s highlight is a never-before-displayed marble relief by Michelangelo, which was originally made for the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Capranica Prenestina, Lazio....
...‘From Jacopo della Quercia to Donatello: Early Renaissance Art in Siena’, Complesso di Santa Maria della Scala and other sites to July 11. www.rinascimentosiena.it...
...On my recent trip, as I walked down the single nave of Santa Maria della Vittoria, the small church where my grandparents married more than six decades ago, the noise of the busy thoroughfare that abuts...
...In her intriguing Becoming Venetian, Blake de Maria, a professor of art history at Santa Clara University, follows the fortunes of immigrant families who rose to citizen status, tracing how the art they...
...Maria della Salute”, depicting a fragment of the steps, a shimmering, acutely angled stone façade and marble saints bearing down with the force of living beings, reminds you that Sargent at best is all...
...The iconography of Christmas decorations has expanded over the past hundred years to include Santa Claus, reindeer, snowmen, snowflakes, toys or simulations of toys, animals and birds and above all angels...
...Beneath a 14th century Dominican church, called Santa Maria Maggiore, is an extraordinary site – the best-preserved of the Catholic church’s Holy Inquisition secret courts in Italy....
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