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 Santa Maria in Aracoeli The church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli stands on the spot where, according to a medieval legend, the Tiburtine Sibyl appeared to the emperor Augustus (r. 27 BCE - 14 CE) to announce the birth of the son of God, in whose honour, the emperor duly raised an altar on the Capitol, an altar (ara) to heaven (coeli). A flight of 124 ancient marble steps leads up to the church.  Santa Maria in Aracoeli  Gilded wooden ceiling  Comments are closed.
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- The Stuarts
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- Cathedra Petri
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- St Peter
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- Nave
- Vatican Museums
- Sistine Chapel
-
Fountains
- Fontana della Barcaccia
- Fontana di Piazza delle Scole
- Fountain of Moses
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountains of Piazza Farnese
- Fountain of the Acqua Paola
- Fountain of the Bees
- Fountain of the Cannonball
- Fountain of the Four Rivers
- Fountain of the Goddess Roma
- Fountain of the Moor
- Fountain of the Naiads
- Fountain of the Pantheon
- Fountains of Piazza del Popolo
- Fountain of the Porter
- Fountains of St Peter's Square
- Fountain of the Seahorses
- Fountain of the Triton
- Fountain of the Turtles
- Four Fountains
- Rioni Fountains
- Street Fountains
- Trevi Fountain
- Venice Marries the Sea
-
Churches
- Chiesa del Gesù >
- Chiesa Nuova
- Lateran Baptistery
- San Bartolomeo all' Isola
- San Carlo ai Catinari
- San Carlo al Corso
- San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
- San Clemente >
- San Crisogono
- San Francesco a Ripa >
- San Giorgio in Velabro
- San Giovanni a Porta Latina
- San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
- San Giovanni in Laterano >
- San Girolamo della Carità >
- San Gregorio Magno
- San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
- San Lorenzo in Damaso
- San Lorenzo in Lucina
- San Luigi dei Francesi >
- San Marco
- San Pancrazio
- San Paolo fuori le Mura
- San Pietro in Montorio
- San Pietro in Vincoli
- San Saba
- San Sebastiano fuori le Mura >
- San Silvestro in Capite
- San Vitale
- Sant' Agnese fuori le Mura
- Sant' Agnese in Agone
- Sant' Agostino
- Sant' Anastasia
- Sant' Andrea al Quirinale
- Sant' Andrea della Valle
- Sant' Andrea delle Fratte
- Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi
- Sant' Ignazio di Loyola
- Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza
- Santa Caterina dei Funari
- Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
- Santa Costanza
- Santa Croce in Gerusalemme >
- Santa Francesca Romana
- Santa Maria degli Angeli
- Santa Maria del Popolo >
- Santa Maria del Priorato
- Santa Maria della Pace >
- Santa Maria della Vittoria >
- Santa Maria dell' Anima
- Santa Maria dell' Orazione e Morte
- Santa Maria dell' Orto
- Santa Maria di Loreto
- Santa Maria in Aracoeli >
- Santa Maria in Campitelli
- Santa Maria in Cosmedin
- Santa Maria in Domnica
- Santa Maria in Trastevere >
- Santa Maria in Via
- Santa Maria Maddalena
- Santa Maria Maggiore >
- Santa Maria sopra Minerva >
- Santa Prassede
- Santa Sabina >
- Santa Susanna
- Santi Apostoli
- Santi Cosma e Damiano
- Santi Domenico e Sisto
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Santi Luca e Martina
- Santi Nereo e Achilleo
- Santi Quattro Coronati
- Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio
- Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli
- Santissima Trinità di Monti
- Santissimo Nome di Maria
- Palatine
- Forum
-
Ancient Monuments
- Aqueducts
- Ara Pacis
- Arch of Constantine
- Arch of the Money-Changers
- Arch of Janus
- Aurelian Walls
- Baths of Caracalla
- Baths of Diocletian
- Castel Sant' Angelo
- Catacombs of Domitilla
- Circus Maxentius
- Circus Maximus
- Colosseum
- Column of Marcus Aurelius
- Column of Trajan
- Forum of Augustus
- Forum of Trajan
- Mausoleum of Augustus
- Nymphaeum
- Pantheon
- Ponte Fabricio
- Ponte Milvio
- Ponte Rotto
- Ponte Sant' Angelo
- Porta Maggiore
- Porta San Paolo
- Porta San Sebastiano
- Portico of Octavia
- Pyramid of Cestius
- Temple of Hadrian
- Temple of Hercules
- Temple of Portunus
- Theatre of Marcellus
- Tomb of Caecilia Metella
- Via Appia
-
Obelisks
- 'Minerveo' Obelisk
- 'Flaminio' Obelisk
- 'Matteiano' Obelisk
- 'Lateran' Obelisk
- 'Dogali' Obelisk
- 'Macuteo' Obelisk
- 'Solare' Obelisk
- 'Vatican' Obelisk
- 'Agonalis' Obelisk
- 'Sallustiano' Obelisk
- 'Quirinale' Obelisk
- 'Esquiline' Obelisk
- 'Pinciano' Obelisk
- 'Mediceo' Obelisk
- 'Torlonia' Obelisks
- 'Mussolini' Obelisk
- 'Marconi' Obelisk
- Mosaics
- Gallery
- Palazzi
- Galleries & Museums
- Piazzas
-
Miscellaneous
- A Calendar of Saints
- Antico Caffè Greco
- Art of the Cosmati
- Babington's Tea Rooms
- Borromini & the Baroque
- Catacombs
- Cloisters
- Column of the Immaculate Conception
- Domes
- EUR
- Fascism
- House of the Owls
- Jewish Ghetto
- Jubilee Years
- Knights of Malta
- Mithraism
- Monumental Complex of S. Spirito in Sassia
- Ponte Sisto
- 'Protestant' Cemetery
- Quartiere Coppedè
- Spanish Steps
- 'Talking' Statues
- Tiber Island
- Villa Borghese
- Vittoriano
- Rioni
- On This Day in Italy
-
Pictures from Italy
-
Florence
>
- A Literary Tour
- Anna Maria Luisa: Last of the Medici
- Casa-Galleria Vichi
- Column of Justice
- Column of St Zenobius
- Cosimo I de' Medici
- Cosimo II de' Medici
- Costanza Bonarelli
- David With Fig Leaf
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Equestrian Statue of Cosimo I de' Medici
- Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando I de' Medici
- Festina Lente
- Floods
- Fontana del Bacchino
- Fontana dei Puttini
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountains of the Marine Monsters
- Gian Gastone de' Medici
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Images of the Annunciation
- Little Devil
- Monument to Cellini
- Palazzo Bartolini-Salimbeni
- Palazzo Bianca Cappello
- Palazzo Fenzi
- Palazzo Viviani
- Perseus and Medusa
- Piazza Santa Maria Novella
- Pope Leo XI
- Porta della Mandorla
- Rape of the Sabine Woman
- Santa Maria Novella
- Canons' Palace
- Statue of Dante
- Theft of the Century
- Torre del Arnolfo
- Twelve Good Men
- Villa Gamberaia
- Wheel of the Innocents
- 'Wine Windows'
- Lazio >
- Tuscany >
-
Venice
>
- Ab Urbe Condita
- Acqua Alta
- Bartolomeo Colleoni
- Barque of Dante
- Burano
- Caffè Florian
- Daniele Manin
- Flagpoles
- Giustina Rossi
- Gondolas
- Harry's Bar
- Henry James
- House of Three Eyes
- King Victor Emmanuel II
- Map of Venice
- Martinmas
- Master of the House
- Palazzo Contarini Fasan
- Ponte Borgoloco
- Ponte Chiodo
- Punta del Dogana
- Scacciadiavoli
- Shrine of St Lucia
- Sior Antonio Rioba
- The 'Book Shitter'
- The Lion's Mouth
- Tommaso Rangone
- Torcello
- Venus
- 'Viennese Oranges'
- Wellheads
- Winged Lions
-
Florence
>