Carlitos Lunghi Site

                  This obelisk is sometimes called  with  diferent names "Passeggiata" from
                  the name of the square where it now stands, "Varianian" because it stood
                  at one time in the Circus Varianus, "Barberini" because it was discovered
                  in the time of Pope Urban VIII.
                  Was  carried  from Egypt to Rome, has  two  jeroglifics  text  columns in
                  each one of its four faces and measures 9.75 meters.
                  Adriano was the second Roman emperor who made carve a  obelisk with
                  his name. It was  erected (probably along with another missing today)  in
                  front of the funeral monument that in year 131made construct in Villa de
                  Antinoe, Pincio mount, in honor  to  his  favorite, not far from Belvedere
                  from where the seen the square of the Popolo.
                  Under  the  pope  of   Urbano  VIII it  was  discovered  broken  in  three
                  fragments near the church of Saint Cruz of Jerusalem constructed on the
                  ruins of the old Roman circus.
                  Another  hypothesis  exists  that  tells  that it  was  found  outside  of  the
                  Greater Door, the great door of entrance in the walls of the city of Rome,
                  or  it  lay  in the Giardino della Pigna in the Vatican until 1822, when Pio
                  VII  ordered  to  erected, this  time  in  the  square  of  Passegiata  in  the
                  actual place.

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