Word: spagna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coordinate the explorations of his skindiving friends, Gargallo has organized the Mediterranean Institute of Underwater Archaeology. In his apartment off Rome's Piazza, di Spagna, he has a map of Italy and Sicily with colored pins indicating the site of 20 to 30 ruins known to his skindivers. There is a big underwater city near Venice. Another, off Mondragone, north of Naples, runs along the bottom for nearly three miles...
Only a short stroll from the smart shops of famed Piazza di Spagna begins Via Margutta, one of Rome's most remarkable streets. It is shabby, narrow, and lined by drab, ocher-colored buildings. Not until a visitor pushes through any of a dozen open archways into a maze of courtyards, stone stairs and quiet, hidden gardens, is the secret of the street revealed. For here live some of Italy's most colorful artists, their names often scrawled on rickety doors. Via Margutta has been the Roman artists' quarter since the 16th century Today, in the center...
...Pope to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the promulgation .of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (which holds that the Mother of Jesus Christ was preserved from original sin). For the occasion, the Pope drove through downtown Rome for the first time since the war. In the Piazza di Spagna, at the foot of the magnificent Spanish Steps, he stopped to place a bouquet of flowers at the column commemorating the Immaculate Conception. Then he drove on to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore (where, 55 years ago next April, at 23. the future Pope celebrated his first Mass...
Professor Modugno regained consciousness only long enough to forgive Giuseppe before he died. Huge bareheaded crowds turned out to watch while schoolboys carried the coffin through Rome's silent streets. At the professor's bier in the Piazza di Spagna, Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini spoke for all high-school teachers: "Be good, boys and girls, be good...