Altitude 360 m (1,181 feet). 37,000 inhabitants
In the area
around the city the famous dry white wine Marino
is produced
The first settlement
here as Castrimoenium dates at least
since the end of Sulla’s period (78 BC). It was a wealthy town for most of the
imperial period and the center of town was north of Marino, maybe in the area
of Villa Galassini
The town
was ruled by the Orsini family in the thirteenth century and by the Colonna family
since 1419
In 1656 the
population was reduced because of a plague and it was repopulated by vassals of
Colonna from the Abruzzo region
Mitreo
dipinto
Painted
Mithraeum
Second half
of the second century AD
It was
discovered accidentally in 1962 at the foot of the village, near the train station,
in a private cellar
Maybe it
was a rock-cut cellar reused, 20 x 3 m (66 x 10 feet)
It is a
rare example of a painted mithraeum,
a temple for the worshippers of Mithras
The only other
two known painted mithraea are the Barberini Mithraeum and the one in Capua,
but this is the best one for painting quality
On the back
wall "Mithras killing the bull"
Two squares
on the sides with "The dadofori (torchbearers) Cautes and Cautopates"
Two series
of square paintings with mythological stories:
On the left
"Giants thunderstruck by Jupiter", "Ocean", "The birth
of Mithras from stone", "Mithras dominating the bull"
On the right
"Mithras hitting the sun", "Alliance between Mithras and the
sun", "Mithras makes water gush from a rock with an arrow"
Fontana
dei Mori
Fountain
of the Moors
1600 Sergio Venturi in Piazza Matteotti
The four
Turkish slaves tied to the column symbolize the victory of Marcantonio Colonna
in the waters of Lepanto against the Muslims
It is the
symbol of the city of Marino
During the yearly
Sagra dell’Uva (Festival of the
Grapes) wine comes out of this fountain
Former
church of St. Lucia
1180,
restored in 1225
One of the
first Cistercian buildings of the Lazio region
Now it is
the MUSEO CIVICO (Civic Museum) opened in 2000 with exhibits of the
prehistorical, Roman and medieval periods as well as many notary deeds from the
sixteenth century onwards
Chiesa
della Trinità
Trinity
Church
"Holy
Trinity" maybe by Guido Reni (1575/1642)
Basilica
di S. Barnaba
Basilica
of St. Barnabas
1640/43 Antonio Del Grande (about 1625/79) at the behest of Cardinal
Girolamo Colonna
"The
work of Antonio Del Grande took off at the service of the Colonna family. He
was engaged in all the constructions of buildings commissioned by Cardinal
Girolamo, Prince of Paliano and Duke of Marino, heir, from 1639, of the Colonna
feuds in the State of the Church. With the works entrusted to his architect in
Genazzano, Marino, Paliano, Rocca di Papa, the cardinal consolidated and gave
eloquent form to the reunification and the administrative reorganization
carried out in the lands of Colonna by his father, Filippo" (Manfredo
Tafuri - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
3rd
CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
"Madonna
of the People" of the fifteenth century. Image of the Virgin Mary which,
according to tradition, would have come from Constantinople
"Baroque monument of Cardinal Girolamo
Colonna"
PRESBYTERY
"Martyrdom
of St. Barnabas" and "Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew" of the school of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino (1591/1666)
NICHE ON THE RIGHT
"Monument to Cardinal Girolamo
Colonna" by Alessandro Algardi (1598/1654)
Palazzo Colonna
Colonna
Palace
About
1530/1620 for the Colonna family from the original design by Antonio Cordini aka
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1483/1546) executed
by other architects including Girolamo Rainaldi (1570/1655),
on the site of the ancient castle of the tenth century
It remained
the property of the Colonna family until 1916
Destroyed
by the bombing of the Allied Forces during World War Two and rebuilt in 1958
Now it is
the town hall
Convent
of the Dominican Sisters
It was
built in the seventeenth century
It
incorporates the CHIESA DELLA MADONNA DEL ROSARIO (Church of Our Lady of the
Rosary) built in 1712 by Giuseppe Sardi (1680/1753)
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