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39.Roxy * 3888 x 2592 * (1.47MB)

40.Roxy * 1452 x 1034 * (223KB)

42.Palazzo.Montecitorio * Palazzo Montecitorio is the site of Italy's Chamber of Deputies. Despite the building is located in the core of the center of Italy, the people working inside it seems to be very far away... * 2148 x 2592 * (1.2MB)
 
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44.Obelisco.su.Elefante.Bernini * An elephant carrying an obelisk. This Bernini's sculpture, located in Piazza della Minerva, according to the artist represents the idea that to support a solid knowledge, a robust mind is needed - as it is written on one sculpture's side. * 1944 x 2916 * (1.22MB)

45.Obelisco.su.Elefante * The original project had an elephant carrying the obelisk on his back, but a rival artist, whose project for the statue was discarded, despite Bernini's protests convinced the pope to fill the gap between the elephant's belly and the basement with a stone cube, to follow the old idea that no perpendicular weight should rest on any empty vacuum. * 1322 x 1907 * (524KB)

46.a * Some streets near the Pantheon and Piazza della Minerva. * 3435 x 2290 * (1.34MB)
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