The Road Best Travelled - English https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled.html The Road Best Travelled - English - Rome has welcomed visitors for centuries, creating paths and and offering refreshment to them as they walked through the city. What may seem just a piazza to a tourist, transformed into a stage, an itinerary, a divine symbol in the eyes of the pilgrim. These little visits are designed to show Rome’s hidden beauties, revealed though the lens of pilgrimage. - Podcast - Radio Vaticana - Vatican News en https://basilicas.vatican.va/content/dam/basilicas/internal-page/2020.03.14-Petersdom-Petersplatz-Piazza-San-Pietro-Basilica-San-Pietro-1.jpeg/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.1500.1500.jpeg The Road Best Travelled - English https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled.html Radio Vaticana - Vatican News webmaster@vaticannews.va no Radio Vaticana - Vatican News The Road Best Travelled - English - Rome has welcomed visitors for centuries, creating paths and and offering refreshment to them as they walked through the city. What may seem just a piazza to a tourist, transformed into a stage, an itinerary, a divine symbol in the eyes of the pilgrim. These little visits are designed to show Rome’s hidden beauties, revealed though the lens of pilgrimage. Rome has welcomed visitors for centuries, creating paths and and offering refreshment to them as they walked through the city. What may seem just a piazza to a tourist, transformed into a stage, an itinerary, a divine symbol in the eyes of the pilgrim. These little visits are designed to show Rome’s hidden beauties, revealed though the lens of pilgrimage. The Road Best Travelled - Trailer The Road Best Travelled - Trailer Most modern tourists would be surprised to discover that many of the amazing sights of Rome that delight tourists today were first created for pilgrims.

Art historian Elizabeth Lev takes us on a journey through the history of Rome as seen through the eyes of a pilgrim.

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/trailer.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/trailer.html 00:02:23 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:22:33 +0200 The Road Best Travelled - The Pilgrim's Path The Road Best Travelled - The Pilgrim's Path Over 1,500 years of papal rule in Rome allowed to Church to think about how to transform the Eternal City into a microcosm of the pilgrim’s journey. However, even though modern slogans often claim otherwise, the religious pilgrim believes that, although the journey is important, what really matters is the destination.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

 

 

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-pilgrim-s-path.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-pilgrim-s-path.html 00:00:00 Tue, 28 May 2024 10:46:02 +0200 Saint Mary Major Saint Mary Major This Basilica, the oldest Marian Church in the West, is piled high with beauty and treasures. Built in 432, St. Mary Major has long been the Christmas church, Rome's Bethlehem, especially during the long years when pilgrims were unable to journey to the Holy Land.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/saint-mary-major.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/saint-mary-major.html 00:00:00 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:34:09 +0200 Madonna of the Pilgrims Madonna of the Pilgrims In the magnificent church of St. Augustine, pilgrims venerate the relics of St. Monica, for many the patron saint of mothers of problematic adolescents. Among the many works by well-known artists that embellish this church, one stands out as a truly iconic representation of the pilgrimage: Caravaggio’s Madonna of the Pilgrims. With its dramatic lighting and gritty realism, this painting is one of the great masterpieces of the 17th century ‘bad boy-artist’.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/madonna-of-the-pilgrims.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/madonna-of-the-pilgrims.html 00:00:00 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:46:30 +0200 The Moses Fountain The Moses Fountain From the earliest stages of Christian art and even in the catacombs themselves, the image of Moses striking the Rock was the ubiquitous symbol of Baptism. The Moses Fountains, designed to look like a triumphal arch, celebrate not the triumph of war but the triumph of water. This element is imbibed with both the life-giving properties of purification and irrigation, as well as great spiritual power in Baptism and the cleansing of the soul.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

 

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-moses-fountain.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-moses-fountain.html 00:00:00 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:01:41 +0200 The Calling of Saint Matthew The Calling of Saint Matthew Matthew’s decision will change everything he has been up to until now and transform him into a new person. As he stands on the threshold of that decision, one hand points to himself, and the other hand still holds a coin, showing his attachment to the wealth and privilege he has earned. Caravaggio’s spectacular use of light reveals not only Matthew’s decision, but also points the path for pilgrims who seek an indication of the Way.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-calling-of-saint-matthew.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-calling-of-saint-matthew.html 00:00:00 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:10:27 +0200 The Pantheon The Pantheon The Pantheon encapsulates the conversion of Rome. It could have gone the way of many of the other building of ancient Rome, fallen into ruin and lost to posterity. But its beauty caught the Christian imagination. Its perfect circular form, used in Roman times for triumphal architecture, became the ideal form to celebrate the Triumph of the martyrs. The Pantheon represents the incredible paradox of Rome: a building constructed to celebrate the idea that anyone can become a god would become the resting place of those defiant Christians who refused to worship idols.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

 

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-pantheon.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/the-pantheon.html 00:00:00 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:19:22 +0200 Michelangelo’s Pietà Michelangelo’s Pietà The very word “Pietà” means “to feel sorry for.” So, how was Michelangelo to make people feel sorry for Mary and Jesus? The prototypes he was offered from Germany and France show the Body of Christ in rigor mortis with open wounds and the crown of thorns still visible. But the 23-year-old sculptor chose to do something completely different. And in doing so, he changed the history of art.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

 

]]> https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/michelangelo-s-pieta.html https://basilicas.vatican.va/en/podcast/the-road-best-travelled/michelangelo-s-pieta.html 00:00:00 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:22:21 +0200 Rome’s Obelisks Rome’s Obelisks Rome is the city of Emperors and Popes, not Pharaohs. So, why are there so many Egyptian obelisks? These strange and massive needles crop up at every turn.

Pope Sixtus V, in his urban planning campaign, unearthed these massive granite monuments and created a visual network to help the pilgrims coming to Rome find the most important sites of prayer.

"From Tourist to Pilgrim" is a podcast by Liz Lev, with original music by Mara Miceli and Umberto D'Auria, editing and sound design by Mara Miceli, and directed by Johana Bronkova.

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