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4 days ago · Alaric had captured Galla Placidia, sister of the defeated Honorius, who accompanied the Visigoths from the Italian Peninsula to Gaul in 412. She was eventually married off to Ataulfo, Alaric’s successor and her wedding gifts consisted of 50 cases of jewels from the Temple of Jerusalem that Tito had seen fit to plunder in 70 AD.
3 days ago · Team Infermieristico CRA Galla Placidia Ravenna. Il Team della CRA, segnalato dai familiari di un ospite della struttura, durante la presenza della mamma di oltre 97 anni affetta da polifratture ...
3 days ago · Situata nella regione dell’Emilia-Romagna, Ravenna è famosa per i suoi splendidi mosaici, che hanno reso questa città un vero tesoro artistico. Una delle principali attrazioni di Ravenna è il Mausoleo di Galla Placidia, una piccola cappella ricoperta da mosaici luminosi e affascinanti.
4 days ago · 10 May 2024 · 17 min read. The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, as depicted in the Chronica Hungarorum. The article that follows forms part of The So-Called Dark Ages, a serialized Quillette history of Late Antiquity, adapted from Herbert Bushman’s ongoing Dark Ages podcast. This is the tenth instalment, and the fifth dedicated to the Huns.
5 days ago · Ravenna; Battistero Neoniano (o degli Ortodossi) Archbishop’s Chapel of St. Andrew; Archiepiscopal Museum, Ravenna; Basilica di San Vitale; Mausoleo di Galla Placidia; Merikipe Café; Chiesa di Sant’Eufemia-Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra; Dinner at La Piadina del Melarancio; Day 13: Ravenna. Beautiful mosaics everywhere. We would like to come ...
5 days ago · The city became the capital of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and subsequently of the Byzantine Empire. I was lucky enough to do a private evening tour of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, which features dazzling gold mosaics that contrast against a deep blue starry sky. I also saw Dante’s tomb.
1 day ago · Internal unrest and Majorian. The Western Roman Empire during the reign of Majorian in AD 460. During his four-year-long reign from 457 to 461, Majorian restored Western Roman authority in Hispania and most of Gaul. Despite his accomplishments, Roman rule in the west would last less than two more decades.
