Carlitos Lunghi Site

                      The obelisk  of  Villa  Celimontana  or  Villa  Mattei, as  is  known  at  the
                  moment it, this located in one of legendary the seven hills on which based
                  Rome.
                  Someone called like Caelian obelisk.
                  It was erected by RAMSES II, it  was originally outside of the Temple of
                  the Sun in Heliopolis  and  is  the  twin  of the Pantheon obelisk, just only
                  2,68 meters.
                  Firstly it was in the square of the Capitol.
                  When falling  stay  for  a   long  time  like a step of  the convent of Santa
                  Maria in Aracoeli.
                  It was given in 1582  by  the  city authorities to a  nobleman and collector
                  of  antiquities  called Ciriaco Mattei, who raised it, in september 11,  1582
                  in the gardens of his villa that  he adquired in 1533 call Villa Celimontana.
                  Mattei gave  little  care  to  the obelisk who finish fall, and was the prince
                  Manuel de Godoy who reerected.
                  The monument is not  very  important  in  relation  to others, but it has a
                  history that tells that in 1817, during the ceremony it publishes in the day
                  that the obelisk was re erected.
                  While a worker probably cleaned the pedestal, the  clothes who taked the
                 obelisk wroked, falling the biggest stone, cut the hand to the man, obvious
                 stay the hand crushed down the obelisk base, until ours day.

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