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Vita di Paese: Italian Bridges
The advent of bridges coincided with the rise of modern civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. A bridge is a structure that…
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Vita di Paese: Lake View Cemetery: Crypts, Mausoleums and Tombstones
When Joseph Carabelli, a funerary monument maker, moved to Cleveland in 1880 and established the Lake View Granite and Monumental…
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More of the Bizarre…and Awesome Cults, Catacombs and Crypts
I have a peculiar curiosity for death and the hereafter and a love of the peacefulness of cemeteries. So, on…
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The Capuchins and Their Crypts
What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be The Capuchins They were first known…
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Photo Exhibit: Piccoli Piaceri
Life is made of a long sequence of moments, many of which might not be worth remembering. However, hopefully there…
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Altars
The word altar comes from the Latin, altarium, meaning “high” and adolere, meaning “to ritually burn or sacrifice,” which suggests…
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Madonnelle
Devotional imagery has long been a part of Roman tradition and placing a painting or statue of a deity at…
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Vita di Paese: Autumn, Finally!
Visiting Italy once autumn has arrived is usually a wonderful experience, as long as the weather remains cooperative. This is…
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Italia, My Way
As I looked back to several years of my “Vita di paese” articles written for this publication, I selected a…
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Vita di Paese: Hidden Venezia
Venezia remains my favorite place in the world, and, as I was recently looking back at some of the images…
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