Tag: Pantheon
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temples
a political rally leads us to the Pantheon where willing cafes smother voices with the chatter of silverware the crowds have no ebb their tanned skin pools round the columns where echoes from buskers hang like webs the sun bleaches the Fountain and its repairs are frozen by my camera we line up and you…
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Consecration
Consecration by Pope Boniface IV (the name ‘Boniface’ meaning approximately ‘one who does good’) saved the Pantheon from the worst of the pillage and plunder in medieval times, “after the pagan filth was removed” of course. Easily one of the more spectacular and complete historical buildings in Rome, the Pantheon’s dome is a work of…
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