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    Peperino is an Italian word describing a brown or grey volcanic tuff, containing fragments of basalt and limestone, with disseminated crystals of augite...
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    Hills that contain the lakes Albano and Nemi. The hills are composed of peperino (lapis albanus), a variety of tuff that is useful for construction and...
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    Severans. Peperino tufa (podium faced with matching white marble) was used for the cella wall that features behind the colonnade. Blocks of peperino were left...
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    nearby Museum of the Imperial Fora. The forum is made of ashlar blocks of peperino tufa with Carrara marble. Its construction also includes colonnades made...
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  • attraction is the foliated Romanesque-style columns in the portal. The peperino stone facade is otherwise undecorated. Comune of Vitorchiano, entry on...
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    Dacian prisoners. The arch was flanked by tall walls built from blocks of Peperino tuff clad entirely in marble, which enclosed the Forum on three sides....
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    Wikipedia article at [[:it:Peperino]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|it|Peperino}} to the talk page. For more...
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    by Giuseppe Antolini. The facade now is partially plastered in between peperino stone pilasters. Further refurbishments were completed in 1901 and 1909...
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    stretching 33 metres (108.3 ft) from the ground level of the Forum and built in peperino and Gabine stone (lapis gabinum), which ancient Romans thought was particularly...
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    Marra, F.; Palladino, D. M.; Licht, O. A. Boni (July 2022). "The peperino rocks: historical and volcanological overview". Bulletin of Volcanology...
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    atop the Tabularium, which had once housed the archives of ancient Rome. Peperino blocks from the Tabularium were re-used in the left side of the palazzo...
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    Marcus Aurelius. The building stands on a high platform of large grey peperino tufa blocks. The latter of two dedicatory inscriptions says, "Divo Antonino...
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    that they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum. Peperino has been used in Rome and Naples as a building stone, is a trachyte tuff...
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    known through an inscription (CIL 1). The building itself had a facade of peperino and travertine blocks. The interior vaults are of concrete.[citation needed]...
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    ancient gates. Apart from agriculture, Viterbo's main resources are pottery, peperino stone, and wood. The town is home to the Italian gold reserves, an important...
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    in Pianura and Soccavo are exhausted. Campanian piperno is a cousin to peperino tuff from Lazio. Calcaterra, Domenico; Cappelletti, Piergiulio; Langella...
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    towers). All that survives today is the podium's core (with some of its peperino lining), parts of the cella (two fragments of its travertine wall and part...
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    Marinesi, men and women of faith, "read" the spring in the middle of the peperino bench as a sign of God's benevolence to their City, granted through Mary's...
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    Appia, now facing the Palazzo Savelli. It is a monumental building in peperino incorporated in the adjacent civic buildings until 1944. Terme di Cellomaio;...
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    partly chambers with frescoes on the walls, partly cubical blocks of peperino, hollowed out, with grooved lids. The objects found within them consist...
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    about 12 meters from the church itself. The church is entirely made of peperino blocks and finds itself in front of the hamlet's front door. It has a basilica...
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    and it is made of blocks of peperino up to at 11 meters, blocks in limestone up to 22 meters and then again blocks of peperino in the last few meters. The...
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    niches positioned 2.1 m above the ground, is built with irregular layers of peperino ashlars and bricks. The two main entrances (Vomitoria) were, unusually...
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    slate, c. 1531, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples Birth of the Virgin – Oil on peperino, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, never finished Christ Carrying the Cross...
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    d'Euville Pierre de Jaumont Tuffeau stone Marble Verde Antico Carrara marble Peperino Pietra serena Portoro Buono Travertine Anorthosite Larvikite Marble Quartzite...
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    peripteros temple sine postìcum (with columns on three sides), with eight tuff (peperino) columns on the long sides and six on the front (hexastyle), covered with...
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    covered loggia closed in 1777 was paved with peperino blocks: when the flooring was dismantled, the peperino slabs were reused as thresholds for the doors...
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    atop the Tabularium, which had once housed the archives of ancient Rome. Peperino blocks from the Tabularium were re-used in the left side of the palazzo...
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    sculptor of the Gothic period, active in and near Naples. He was born in Peperino, and came to Naples with his father Domenico, also a sculptor. He initially...
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    (131 x 45 meters), and had outer walls made from blocks of lava stone peperino, covered with marble slabs, and decorated with projecting paired columns...
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