Italy: OSA Curia - 01

Curia is the word used to describe the international leadership team of the Augustinian Order, and also the building in Rome in which they both work and live as a religious community.

The Augustinian central buildings in Rome have a great geographical position.

They are located on Via Paolo VI ("the street of Pope Paul VI"), which borders the exterior of the eastern colonnade ("arm" of pillars) of Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican.

Photo: This photo was taken from the dome of Saint Peter’s Basilica. It shows the Augustinian buildings just outside Saint Peter's Square, Rome: 1. the Augustinian Curia (furthest from camera, with front and back wings facing towards the camera), and 2. St Monica's College - Colégio S. Monica - (right of centre, the building with four sides facing an internal courtyard). 3. The Augustinianum, housining the official Patristicum (patristic instutute) of the Catholic Church - the building towards the rear-right with the top of its roof cut from the photograph.

This means that these Augustinian buildings are literally on Saint Peter's Square. Geographically the site lies within Italian territory, but is granted extra-territorial privileges by the Vatican City State, which literally is as close as the other side of Via Paolo VI.

For another aerial photograph on Augnet that shows a greater area in this vicinity, click here.

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Italy: OSA Curia - 01