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Taken in September 1975.
Rome is a city of churches, domes (especially domes of churches), and columns. These were in the Piazza del Popolo, I think.
I found that column by accident in some backyard in my hometown. It was once a base for Blessed Virgin Mary's statue and it stood by the gate to the yard. The man who lives there told me interesting story of that statue. In September 1939 during the German air raid over nearby sugar plant, one of the bombs fell on a sidewalk right by the statue but it didn't blow up. Miracle? In the end of 1940's communist authorities ordered to remove the statue. Września, July 2009.
World War 1 memorial nearby to Stretton on Dunsmore
Information can be found: www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19428
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." --- Herman Melville
*** made me think of the contrast of the neighborhood kids watching outside the chapel, dressed in shorts and sando and the wedding guests inside the chapel all dressed up in barongs and gowns...
The Column of the Grande Armée is a 53 metre high Doric order Triumphal column. It was intended to commemorate a successful invasion into England - which never materialised.
It now commemorates the first distribution of the 'Légion d'honneur' from Napoleon to the Army of England - The soldiers that were to invade England.
The statue survived the entire First World War, but suffered severe damage from shelling in World War 2.
After being repaired and inaugurated on 24th June 1962, it has been struck by lightning twice, once in 1999 and once in 2002, causing damage to the statue and the marble.
There is a page of information about Trajan's Column on the Victoria & Albert Museum's website: www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/trajans-column/
By Álvaro Siza
One of three iInstalled in the Annenberg Courtyard as part of the Royal Academy's Sensing Spaces exhibition.
Álvaro Siza's installation is located outside the galleries in the Royal Academy's entrance courtyard and consists of three concrete columns that have been coloured with yellow pigment. Only one of the columns is complete and mimics the architectural piers of the historical Burlington House facade.
[De Zeen magazine]