12.07.2014
Untouched in the
recent history, this church is constructed by hacking the earlier structures
and it is one of the most sticking examples of how Roman holy spaces from the 2nd
century BC Republican era continued its life in later Christianity. The church
is built between the remains of three Roman temples which at the time stood one
next to another in what was then Forum Holitorium. Elements of each one of the
temples have survived until today through visible incorporation of their
structure into the church building. Seven columns of the Temple of Janus can be
seen with their architrave in the north wall of the church. Another seven
columns of the side Temple of Spes can be seen on the south church wall. The
remains of the middle temple are visible in both front and back facades of the structure.
San Nicola di Carcere is one of those incredible buildings that are laughing in
everyone’s face, when in modernity we filled up museums with every piece of
history that doesn’t have foundations instead of building those pieces into our
lives and cities.
Near the house of Cola di Rienzo, on the other side of the invisible
line drawn during Mussolini to mark the area of medieval Rome to be demolished,
stands in its grotesque glory Church San Nicola di Carcere.
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