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Colonna Buncompagni Ludovisi
Colonna is an Italian word for column. The name Colonna may refer to: People * Colonna family, a noble family from Rome * Colonna (surname), an Italian surname Places ;Italy * Colonna, Lazio, a ''comune'' in the Province of Rome * Colonna, City of Rome, a ''rione'' in Rome * Capo Colonna, a cape of Calabria * Palazzo Colonna The Palazzo Colonna () is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, Italy, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli. It is built in part over the ruins of an old Roman serapeum, and it has belonged to ..., a palatial block of buildings in central Rome * Castel Colonna, a ''comune'' in the Province of Ancona ;Malta * Colonna Mediterranea, a monument in Luqa {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonna Family
The House of Colonna is an Italian noble family, forming part of the papal nobility. It played a pivotal role in Middle Ages, medieval and Roman Renaissance, Renaissance Rome, supplying one pope (Pope Martin V, Martin V), 23 cardinals and many other Catholic Church, church and political leaders. Other notable family members are Vittoria Colonna, close friend of Michelangelo, Marcantonio II Colonna (Marcantonio Colonna), leader of the papal fleet in the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and Costanza Colonna, patron and protector of Caravaggio. The family was notable for its bitter feud with the Orsini family over their influence in Rome, which was eventually settled by the issuing of the papal bull ''Pax Romana'' by Pope Julius II in 1511. In 1571, the heads of both families married nieces of Pope Sixtus V. Thereafter, historians recorded that "no peace had been concluded between the princes of Christendom, in which they had not been included by name". Today, the family is led by Don Prosper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonna (surname)
Colonna is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Catherine Colonna (b. 1956), a French politician * Colonna family, some of whom included in following list: * Dominique Colonna (1928–2023), a French former football goalkeeper * Edward Colonna, jewelry and railroad car designer, graphic artist, interior decorator, and architect * Fanny Colonna (1934–2014), Algerian sociologist and anthropologist * Giacomo "Sciarra" Colonna (1270–1329), member of the powerful Colonna family * Fabrizio Colonna ( – 18 March 1520) * Francesco Colonna (1433(?) – 1527) an Italian Dominican friar, author of ''Hypnerotomachia Poliphili'' * Giovanni Colonna (archaeologist) (b. 1934), an Italian scholar of ancient Italy and, in particular, the Etruscan civilization. * Giovanni Paolo Colonna (c.1637–1695), an Italian musician and composer * Guido Colonna di Paliano (1908–1982), an Italian politician and European Commissioner. * Jerry Colonna (other), multiple people : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonna, Lazio
Colonna is a (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about southeast of Rome, on the Alban Hills. With a population of some 4,300, it is the smallest of the Castelli Romani. History Ancient era The territory of Colonna is believed to have included the ancient community of Labici, located in the area of the modern comune of Monte Compatri. Labici was conquered in 418 BC by the Romans under the dictator Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus Fidenas and razed to the ground. The Labicani then founded Labicum Quintanas near the Tower of the Pasolina near Colonna. The place is noted as Ad Quintanas, a station on the Via Labicana, between Rome and Ad Bivium. Middle Ages ''Labicum Quintanas'' became an episcopal see in the 4th century. The inhabited area began to decay and disappeared with the Gothic War (535–554). Colonna is mentioned for the first time in 1047, in a deed of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, a guest at the castle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonna, City Of Rome
Colonna is the 3rd of Rome, Italy, identified by the initials R. III and located at the city's historic center in Municipio I. It takes its name from the Column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna, the 's main square. The rione's coat of arms is a now a silver column, representing the Column of Marcus Aurelius, on a red background. However, the insignia originally consisted of three azure bands against a silver background. History The area of the ''rione'' is split up in two parts, divided by Via del Corso, a western flat part and an eastern hilly part, that reaches to one side of the Pincian Hill. During the short-lived Roman Republic of 1798 it also included the hill itself and was called Pincio rather than Colonna.Nicassio, Susan Vandiver (2009)''Imperial City: Rome under Napoleon'' p. 47. University of Chicago Press. In ancient Rome, in the hilly part the richest patricians had their sumptuous ''domus'', while the flat region used to belong to the ''Campus Martius' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capo Colonna
Capo Colonna (sometimes Capo Colonne or Capo della Colonne) is a cape (geography), cape in Calabria located near Crotone. In ancient Roman times the promontory was called Promunturium Lacinium (). The modern name derives from the remaining column of the Temple of Hera Lacinia. The peninsula was the site of a great sanctuary of Hera from the 7th c. BC, the most famous in Magna Graecia. Later the Romans built the fortified town of Lacinium over the area. The entire peninsula is now within the Capo Colonna Archaeological Park and a museum nearby houses important finds. Excavations from 2014 have greatly increased knowledge of the site. History The Cape became an ancient Greek sanctuary to Hera in the 7th c. BC and one of the most important sanctuaries of Magna Graecia. It was closely linked to the ancient Greek colony of Crotone, Kroton nearby. The Roman colony of Lacinium In 194 BC after the Second Punic War the Romans created a maritime Colonia (Roman), colony here, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Colonna
The Palazzo Colonna () is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, Italy, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli. It is built in part over the ruins of an old Roman serapeum, and it has belonged to the prominent Colonna family for over twenty generations. History The first part of the palace dates from the 13th century, and tradition holds that the building hosted Dante during his visit to Rome. The first documentary mention notes that the property hosted Cardinals Giovanni and Giacomo Colonna in the 13th century. It was also home to Cardinal Oddone Colonna before he ascended to the papacy as Pope Martin V in 1417. Following his death, the palace was sacked during feuds, and the main property passed into the hands of the Della Rovere family. It returned to the Colonna family when Marcantonio I Colonna married Lucrezia Gara Franciotti Della Rovere, the niece of Pope Julius II. The Colonna family's alliance to the Habsburg power li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castel Colonna
Castel Colonna was a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ancona in the Italian region Marche, located about west of Ancona. It was called Tomba di Senigallia until 1921. The municipality of Castel Colonna was disbanded 1 January 2014 and united to Ripe and Monterado in the new municipality of Trecastelli Trecastelli is an Italian ''comune'' in the province of Ancona, in Marche, created in 2014 from the merger of the comuni of Ripe, Castel Colonna and Monterado. These three towns are now ''frazioni'' of the administration. The municipal seat is .... Town hall of the new administration was set in former Ripe's offices in Piazza Castello. References Cities and towns in the Marche Trecastelli {{Marche-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
