Mind-blowing Roman engineering, still flawless after 2,000 years! 🇮🇹🏛️
Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director of Pompeii Archaeological Park, shared an incredible video showing how ancient Romans mastered drainage
Even in torrential rains, their system prevented flooding and stagnation!
L’incontro di oggi a Roma con l’amica @takaichi_sanae, Primo Ministro del Giappone, è stato molto importante per ribadire una convinzione comune: Italia e Giappone sono determinati a costruire insieme un futuro di sicurezza, prosperità e stabilità.
Vogliamo dare risposte concrete ai nostri cittadini, raccogliere le sfide del presente e trasformarle in opportunità. E siamo pronti a farlo insieme 🇮🇹🇯🇵
The Leaning Tower of Pisa and Piazza dei Miracoli are surprisingly divisive
A masterpiece to some
Overrated to many
Underrated to others
I’ll go first: beautiful, sure but the whole complex leaves me cold
Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹
BEAUX CHÂTEAUX DE FRANCE 🇫🇷
Avez-vous déjà visité le château de Chenonceau ?
Ce chef-d'œuvre architectural construit en 1513, se dresse sur les rives du Cher, avec son architecture Renaissance caractéristique qui le rend vraiment magnifique ! �
Waves grow steeper and taller as they approach the shore, as the front slows down due to friction with the seabed, but the energy behind it continues to push forward, causing the crest to curl over and release the wave's energy.
📽: Conor Hegyi
The Trevi Fountain marks the exact endpoint of a 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct, where ancient engineering still pours fresh water into the heart of the city every single day.
Aqua Virgo was constructed in 19 BC by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the reign of Emperor Augustus.
The face you make when, because of restoration work, you find yourself with the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel just a few inches from your nose
Vatican City 🇻🇦✨
After 144 years of construction, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona has reached its full height with the placement of the final piece atop its central tower.
[📹davidcantor]
Absolutely UNREAL lightning show from this rotating supercell in western Oklahoma on May 9. Spiraling to 55,000 feet, the crisp spinning storm dropped tennis ball-sized hail with earth-shattering pink and purple “anvil crawler” lightning leaping far from the updraft.
La Victoria de Samotracia, también conocida como Niké de Samotracia, es una de las obras maestras más importantes de la escultura griega del periodo helenístico.
Tallada en mármol hacia el año 190 a. C., representa a la diosa Niké posándose sobre la proa de un navío de guerra.
Arte en movimiento apoyado con Grok
La Piedad es una de las obras maestras más sublimes de Miguel Ángel Buonarroti y del Renacimiento italiano. Esculpida entre 1498 y 1499…
Sus detalles que parece que le dan vida son sencillamente magníficos!
Habrá alguien que iguale esta técnica?
In 1863, on a remote Greek island, a worker digging in the ruins of a 2,000 year old sanctuary stopped and shouted to the French diplomat supervising the excavation:
"Monsieur, we have found a woman."
What he had found was not a woman. It was a giant marble torso. No head. No arms. But a pair of broken wings...
She is the Winged Victory of Samothrace, carved around 190 BC.
The statue depicts the goddess Nike, the personification of victory in the ancient Greek world. She is shown alighting on the prow of a warship: the moment of triumph caught in stone.
The marble is so finely worked that the fabric of her tunic appears wet, pressed against her body by an invisible wind, while heavy folds billow behind her as if still moving.
She originally stood high above the Aegean Sea, in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace, set at a deliberate angle to be seen from afar...
Charles Champoiseau, the French vice-consul who supervised her excavation, sent her to Paris in pieces. Around 110 fragments were recovered. The head and arms were never found. He thought the grey marble blocks scattered around her were the remains of a tomb, and left them on the island. It took twelve more years before Austrian archaeologists realized those blocks were the prow of the ship she had been standing on.
Today, she watches over the top of the Daru Staircase in the Louvre, where ten million people walk up to her every year.
There is something almost mystical about her presence — a sense that what is missing is more powerful than what remains. The absent head and arms, the broken wings: they don't weaken her. They free her. She is no longer a goddess in stone. She is the moment of victory itself, and you can finish her story in your own mind...
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