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The transport of the Macchina di Santa Rosa takes place every year, on 3 September, at 9 o'clock in the evening. The Macchina is an artistic illuminated bell-tower with an imposing height of 30 m. It weighs between 3.5 and 5 tonnes and is made of iron, wood and papier-mâché. At the top of the tower, the statue of the patron saint is ...
La Macchina of Saint Rose. The process of Rose's canonization was opened in the year of her death by Pope Innocent IV, but was not definitively undertaken until 1457.. Originally buried in the small parish church of Santa Maria in Poggio located in Piazza della Crocetta in central Viterbo; in 1257 Pope Alexander IV ordered it moved to the monastery she had desired to enter, located a few ...
The Macchina di Santa Rosa is a 30-metre-high (98 ft) machine built to honor Rose of Viterbo, the patron saint of Viterbo, Italy.Every 3rd of September, a hundred men called "Facchini di Santa Rosa" ('Saint Rose's porters') carry the contraption—weighing about 11,000 pounds (5,000 kg)—and parade it through the streets and squares of Viterbo's medieval town centre, amid festive crowds of ...
Santa Rosa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta ˈrosa]) is a city in the Argentine Pampas (lowlands), and the capital of La Pampa Province, Argentina.It lies on the east of the province, on the shore of the Don Tomás Lagoon, at the intersection of National Routes National Route 5 and National Route 35.
Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California. [10] Its population as of the 2020 census was 178,127. [8] It is the largest city in California's Wine Country and Redwood Coast.
Vitória is a city located on the southeastern coast of Brazil.It belongs to the state of Espírito Santo, with the role of the capital of the state.Its territory extends over 97.12 km 2, being one of the smallest cities in the state and the smallest among the 27 Brazilian capitals.
A world capital of music, Vienna played host to composers such as Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss. The city's cultural contributions in the first half of the 20th century included, among many, the Vienna Secession movement in art, the Second Viennese School , the architecture of Adolf Loos , the philosophy of ...
Mendoza (Latin American Spanish:), officially the City of Mendoza (Spanish: Ciudad de Mendoza), is the capital of the province of Mendoza in Argentina.It is located in the northern-central part of the province, in a region of foothills and high plains, on the eastern side of the Andes.