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Piazza della Minerva
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Lorenzo
October 6, 2019
Piazza della Minerva is a square in the historic center of Rome, in the Pigna district, located near the Pantheon. The name of the square derives from the original existence in this place of a temple built by Gneo Pompeo Magno and dedicated to Minerva Chalkidiki, whose cult statue is now in the Vatican. The basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, center of gravity of the entire square, was already mentioned in the 8th century by the Anonymous of Einsiedeln with the name of (ecclesia) "S. Mariae in Minervio". To the right of the façade there are various tombstones that commemorate the height reached by the floods of the Tiber between 1422 and 1598: the area is in fact among the lowest in Rome, and once the river had overflowed it took quite a while. of time for it to dry. A vast convent, the "professed" house built next to the church when it became the seat of the Dominicans between 1266 and 1275, which in the 17th century became the seat of the Roman Inquisition or Sant'Uffizio (the trial of Galileo Galilei was celebrated there in 1633 and pronounced his abjuration). At the center of the square, since 1667, the obelisk of the Minerva has been positioned on the back of a small marble elephant sculpted by Bernini which turns its back on the convent of the Inquisition. The obelisk, coming from the Iseum, was brought to light during excavations carried out in the cloister. The elephant is known as "the Minerva's pulcin".
Piazza della Minerva is a square in the historic center of Rome, in the Pigna district, located near the Pantheon. The name of the square derives from the original existence in this place of a temple built by Gneo Pompeo Magno and dedicated to Minerva Chalkidiki, whose cult statue is now in the Vat…
Lorenzo
June 9, 2015
In this square, very close to the Pantheon, there is a very nice elephant...
Marco
July 22, 2013
tomb of St. Catherine of Siena
Monica
December 22, 2014
Da visitare la chiesa della Minerva con uno dei soffitti stellati più incantevoli di roma.
Ombretta
March 30, 2022
Degne di nota sono due gruppi di 3 lapidi apposte sulla facciata della Chiesa Santa Maria Sopra la Minerva indicanti l’altezza raggiunta dalle inondazioni del Tevere: vi è da precisare infatti che questa zona, con il vicino Pantheon, era tra le più basse della città e quindi particolarmente soggette ad alluvioni.
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