Aquileja by anna meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf realizzato con piacere en-us 2017-04-06 07:07:07 UTC 2025-10-02 23:59:57 UTC hello@padlet.com I visited Aquileja many years ago. It was the chief town of a region (now Friuli-Venezia Giulia- in northern Italy), very important for the Roman Empire, for trading and culture, directly connected to the Baltic sea. Devastated by Attila, sacked by barbarian people, the roman remains are very few. anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165057008 The columns of the ancient forum]]> 2017-04-06 07:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165057008 the decumano, the paving of the street, that crossed the town. anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165059420 2017-04-06 07:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165059420 the most astonishing are the mosaics on the floor of the Basilica. Destroyed, was reconstructed by bishop Theodore, at the beginning of the fourth century AD . The floor is the most huge space with mosaics in Europe, Unesco Heritage. anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165060717 2017-04-06 07:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165060717 The excavation on the cript of the Basilica is a thousand square metres big and there are three layers of floors, one above the other with mosaics in geometrical composition white-black of roman houses of the first century AD,till the ones of christian time. anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165062838 2017-04-06 07:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165062838 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064134 2017-04-06 07:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064134 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064327 2017-04-06 07:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064327 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064409 2017-04-06 07:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064409 mosaic with the name of the bishop anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064548 2017-04-06 07:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165064548 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165070385 2017-04-06 08:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165070385 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165070679 2017-04-06 08:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165070679 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165070902 2017-04-06 08:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165070902 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165071349 2017-04-06 08:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165071349 anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165072457 2017-04-06 08:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165072457 The mosaics represent histories from the bible because, at that time this was the only way for people to kow the facts occurred. anna_meda https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165073425 The theme of the mosaics is one of the important examples of Biblia pauperum" ( the bible of the poors),meaning those who who could not read and wright and therefore this was the only way to understand the sacred stories with pictures.]]> 2017-04-06 08:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_meda/nzgnet612zpf/wish/165073425