In seventh heaven with happiness, I hope, everyone has been.) They say that God lives there.
The Temple of All Gods - the Pantheon - amazed me with its bold architectural concept and the history of its creation. The very feeling that your upward facing is not blocked by either a roof or a ceiling – by nothing, and if you have to overcome this distance you will reach the heavens ..! And such a harmonious beauty around, absolutely mesmerizing.
And this duality contains the clue to being, Italian being: full saturation of feelings with measured pleasure and the belief that you can rush there, beyond the clouds, beyond the first sky, and then beyond the second, and then ...
The figure of the Madonna and Child, ascending as a cloud, or by clouds, as a symbol of unconditional love. Descending light, blessing this love, this earth. The open dome of heaven, supported by the tops of pines ... these are details that cannot exist without each other.
As well as the living Soul of Italy itself.
