A man wearing a splendid red and white cardinal costume strolls with a finely-dressed lady through Piazza Guglielmo Marconi in Anagni, Lazio, Italy, in an historical August pageant recalling its past as City of the Popes, the summer retreat between the 11th and 14th centuries of pontiffs who preferred its relative cool to the sweltering heat of Rome. Anagni was also the birthplace of popes Gregory IX and Boniface VIII.
Anagni, Lazio, Italy: a man wearing a splendid red and white cardinal costume strolls with a finely-dressed lady through Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, in an historical pageant recalling the town’s past as the summer residence of emperors and popes who preferred its relative cool to the sweltering summer heat of Rome. Roman emperors including Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Commodus and Caracalla spent their summers in Anagni, an ancient hill town about 71 km (44 miles) southeast of Rome. Hundreds of years later, between the 11th and 14th centuries, it hosted the papal court, became widely known as the City of the Popes and was the birthplace of pontiffs Gregory IX and Boniface VIII. The papal palace still stands and is now a museum. Anagni’s annual medieval pageant in August honours its patron saint, the 3rd century AD bishop and martyr San Magno di Anagni (Saint Magnus of Anagni). As Bishop of Trani, Magnus worked to spread Christianity in Anagni and neighbouring towns, but was executed after he was found by Roman soldiers as he hid in a cave. He became Anagni’s patron saint after 1901, when his skeletal remains were buried in the crypt of its cathedral, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunziata.
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Location: Anagni, Lazio, Italy
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