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Rome Through the Mist

Walks Among the Fountains of the Eternal City

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8924-1
Verlag: Toplight Books
Erscheinungstermin: 01.03.2023
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Rome Through the Mist: Walks Among the Fountains of the Eternal City invites readers to join Joe Gartman, long-time culture columnist for Italia! Magazine, on a journey among 80 of Rome’s celebrated fountains, to find a more intimate way of experiencing the Eternal City. On foot with book in hand, or simply in imagination, each chapter takes readers on a vividly described walk, enhanced with colorful, subtly revealing photographs of Roman life. Every fountain in Rome tells a story; every story is about Rome: her history, her legends, and her extraordinary people, from poets to popes, artists to models, architects to emperors. Every street, piazza, wall and garden that contains a fountain has a past worth knowing. You are invited to follow the paths in this book, with 15 different turn-by-turn walking tours, 17 maps, and 182 photos. There are plenty of hints, too, about things to see and experience along the way, especially the matchless artistic treasures that await behind unexpected doors. In your armchair or on your feet, journey from Trevi’s torrents to the Naiad’s naughty nymphs; from the quiet basins in Piazza San Simeone to Bernini’s mighty Four Rivers in Piazza Navona; from the Dark Fountains in Villa Borghese to the charming lionesses in Piazza del Popolo; and listen to the voices of the waters.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781476689241
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4766-8924-1
  • Verlag: Toplight Books
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.03.2023
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2023
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 518 g
  • Seiten: 277
  • Format (B x H x T): 178 x 254 x 15 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
¿1.¿Triton and Trevi and a Fountain Quartet: Piazza Barberini Area
¿2.¿Sensuous to Sacred: Piazza Repubblica Area
¿3.¿Queen Christina's Cannonball to Audrey Hepburn's Sleepover: Piazza di Spagna Area
¿4.¿Nero's Bones, Pharaohs, and Roman Gods: Piazza del Popolo Area
¿5.¿Pax Romana to the Porter's Water Barrel: via Ripetta and via del Corso Area
¿6.¿The Altar of the Fatherland to the Altar of Heaven: Piazza Venezia Area
¿7.¿Caput Mundi: Capitoline Area
¿8.¿Walls, Gates, Fountains, and Memories: Roman Ghetto Area
¿9.¿Tosca's Church to Agrippa's Temple: Pantheon Area
10.¿One Ballerina, Two Sea Gods, and Four Rivers: Piazza Navona Area
11.¿Veggie Soup and Wine with the Farnese: Campo de' Fiori Area
12.¿Across the River and into the Fountains: Trastevere
13.¿Mother Church's Twins and New Water for Old Rome: Vatican Area
14.¿A Walk in the Park: Villa Borghese Area
15.¿Scattered Treasures: Here and There
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index