3 Must-see Hidden Gems In Rome For The 2025 Jubilee!
Are you visiting Rome on a pilgrimage? For the 2025 Jubilee? Or are you looking for some special, less-visited sites in Rome? Off the beaten track hidden gems you shouldn't miss, no matter your faith? Look no further! In this video, we explore some fascinating sites that any visitor to Rome should add to their list, especially if you are coming to enrich your faith. Join me and special guests Kerry and Rhonda of @AFaithProject as we explore three special sites in Rome. ©romewise
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A fairytale clock in Villa Borghese in Rome
How does this clock work? ➡️ The clock is located in the Villa Borghese park near a water cistern, which is used for the irrigation of the park. The abundance of running water makes this location perfect for a mechanism that entirely relies on water 🔸Water falls from above and fills the two leave-shaped bowls hanging on a pivot. By swinging alternatively, the two bowls activate the mechanism and the hands of the clock move 🔸 To discover more Rome gems visit us ⤵️
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A magical bookshop-museum in Rome
Where is this place? ➡️ How many stories behind every single corner of this city! This bookshop is in Palazzo Cavallerini Lazzaroni, a building built by the cardinal Cavallerini in the 1600s 🔸After it’s construction this building became so many things, to mention some: the first school for deaf-mutes in the 1700s, the location of the National Bank, a contemporary art space for exhibitions.. and since last year a bookshop, called Libreria Spazio Sette 🔸To discover more Rome gems visit us ⤵️
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A little hidden park of Rome: Villa Sciarra
Everything in Rome has a story ⤵️ Villa Sciarra is a city park located on the hills on top of Trastevere. To be exact in the Monteverde neighborhood, where you’ll hardly find any tourists at all This is a place where you can feel like a local in Rome. But of course, as everything in Rome, this park has an amazing story! Since antiquity this park has been occupied by gardens and villas, and it has been background to many legendary episodes and personalities. Did you know in fact that this is where Ceasar hosted Cleopatra during her stay in Rome? There’s nothing left of Caesar’s villa in this park (the statues are from the 1700s) But even just thinking that Cleopatra and Caesar must have walked right in this place it’s just incredible. Don’t you think? ⤵️ Want to discover more of
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The corner where Rome started
The legend in brief ⤵️ Have you ever heard of the legend of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, being milked by the she-wolf? 🐺 Here’s a super short version of the legend of the foundation of Rome: Romulus and Remus where twin brothers born in the 8th century BC as natural heirs of the throne of a city nearby what was going to be Rome. 👑👑 Their uncle wanted to become the king of this city, so he decided to kill the little twins by putting them into a basket. Then he abandoned the basket in the Tiber river sure they would drawn and disappear. But the Gods had something in plan for the kids, so they saved the twins and their basket got stuck into one of the shores of the river. And this place.. is the one you see in this video 🧡 A she-wold heard their cries and for a sort
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Michelangelo’s Moses in the church of St Peter in chains in Rome
Why “in chains”🔗? ⤵️ This is the church of San Pietro in Vincoli (in English: Saint Peter in Chains) Below the altar you will find the very chains that held Saint Peter prisoner! But what makes this church even more special is the monument right next to the altar: the Moses of Michelangelo. We are simply entering inside the church and we're in front of a Michelangelo sculpture. How incredible is that? 🤩 ⤵️ Want to discover more of Rome with us? • Go to our link in bio!
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