Carlitos Lunghi Site

                       Is admitted  generally  that  a  roman  emperor Adriano, made it carve in
                  Aswan during III century and without  being  still  his recorded texts, was
                  transferred Rome.
                  It is on account that it was  found  in  the  gardens,  previously Salustians
                  calls that know it like the Sallustian obelisk.
                  It measures 14.10 meters and each  one of its faces takes three jeroglifics
                  text columns, copied  by  you  write  them  Roman  of  the  obelisk of the
                  square of the Popolo. Clement XII in  1733  made  it  transport  near  the
                  Scala Santa with the intention, not fulfilled, to raise it in Letran.
                  In 1789 Pío VI ordered to the architect  Antinori  to  erect  in  its  present
                  location, in front of the church  of  the  Trinidad  del Monte, at the top of
                  the stairs of Spain´s square.

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