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  2. Viterbo - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Fontana di Santa Maria in Poggio - Wikipedia

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    The church in this piazza was Rose's parish church, and where she remained buried from 1252 to 1258, when she was translocated to the Monastery of Santa Rosa. The small sculpture at the pinnacle of the central spire depicts that putative event where a small girl seeking to fill a pitcher of water, broke the ceramic pitcher, and received a stern ...

  4. Santa Rosa, La Pampa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Santa Rosa, California - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Macchina di Santa Rosa - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Rose of Viterbo - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Santa Rosa, Cauca - Wikipedia

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    Santa Rosa is a Colombian municipality located in the department of Cauca, in the region known as the Bota Caucana. It is located on the eastern slope of the Colombian Massif, the mountainous area where the Central and Oriental Cordilleras merge. Its economy is based on agriculture, its main products are corn, sugar cane, plantain and livestock.

  9. Cainta - Wikipedia

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    The site was the former manufacturing plant of Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation which operates from 1963 until 2014, then later the MMPC officially opened their new manufacturing facility in Santa Rosa, Laguna on January 30, 2015.