Rome’s Villa Pamphili Park with its ornate flowerbeds, lawns and walkways is the Italian capital’s largest landscaped garden and a place of respite for the local population as temperatures soar in the summer.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
Are there shaded walkways, cooling centers, or transportation services nearby?
The living quarters center around a cloister courtyard that is lined with dramatic arched colonnades and adorned with a stone wishing well.
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Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
20 June 2025
Discernment, deepening faith Loyola University Chicago student Caleb Ham strolled past the iconic 84-foot-high Vatican Obelisk in the center of St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, surrounded by the site’s iconic elliptical colonnades, which represent the Catholic Church embracing humanity.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2025
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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